Sometimes you get caught up in the excitement of building cool new functionality and you forget to do the always important, often loathed QA. That was the case with our last release where we debuted weight tracking. We introduced a number of small problems, many of which were not reported by users like you, but discovered in my own day-to-day diary use (my diary can be found here: http://www.tweetwhatyoueat.com/diary/aressidi).

If you were none the wiser and these problems did not affect you, great! On the other hand if you were scratching your head, wondering why certain things that once worked no longer worked, then please accept our apology. Know that the problems have been fixed, and that the pipeline is filled with great new functionality.

Here is a list of small bugs that we’ve recently fixed:

• Positioning of the food profile dialogue in Firefox and IE - with CrowdCal setting active, clicking a linked, calorie value in your diary would open the food profile dialogue though it would not line up with the selected entry. This has been fixed.
• Selecting an alternate food profile failed! - with CrowdCal active, clicking an alternate food profile from the dialogue would not activate the profile in your diary. Instead nothing would happen. Now if you click an alternate profile it assigns the selected profile to your entry, and to all previous entries. This applies to entries marked with a “?” as well.
• There’s no way to delete a weight entry! - that was by design, though I’m not here to keep you honest, that’s your job. Added the ability to trash weight entries if you entered them incorrectly.
• Calendar problems adding and editing entries through the web - these I believe have all been fixed and include the calendar defaulting to 2007 rather then the current date. Another problem was that you could not add entries to dates in the past.

Some miscellaneous Internet Explorer display issues have also been fixed. Feel free post any problems you’ve experienced in the comments as I’m on a clean-up bender before moving to the next phase of functional development.

Team TWYE has been working furiously through the summer heat to bring weight tracking to Tweetwhatyoueat. A new “Weight” tab will soon be added to your diary allowing you to post, and privately view your weight entries as easily as you post food entries on TWYE today. Below is a screenshot of the new Weight tab. Your diary will now have two tabs allowing you to toggle between food entries and weight entries (food tab show active).



Posting a new weight entry is easy! Here are some syntax examples.

• ‘d twye #170’ weigh-in at 170 pounds
• ‘d twye #171 - couldn’t keep my hands out of the cookie jar’ weigh-in at 171 pounds with optional comment! Add a comment to your entry by using a dash “-” followed by the comment text

Weight entries are broken up by month and display the: date/time of your entry, the weight value in Kilos or Pounds, and an optional comment about the weight entry.

A new setting under Edit Settings will allow you to choose your preferred unit of measure for weight entries - Kilos or Pounds.

A few other quick things of note:

1. Weight entries will not appear on the homepage. Rest assured
2. People viewing your diary will only see food entries, not your weight entries

The target release date for weight tracking is end of July. Please feel free to post comments/questions about the functionality below. Any other ideas for weight-related syntax are welcome!

After nearly two months of development and testing, TWYE has just released version 1.5 which includes a host of great new features that we hope you’ll love! Here’s a breakdown of the new functionality:

• CrowdCal calorie look-ups – activate the CrowdCal setting under Edit Settings in My Diary, and TWYE will attempt to auto-fill uncaloried entries in your diary with calorie profiles submitted by other members of the community. With CrowdCal active, you can also click on any calorie value in your diary, even the ones you’ve submitted yourself, to see how other users in the community have caloried that same food. You can also see how many other users are using the various profiles. The popularity of a calorie profile is indicated by the number of users using it, allowing you to make informed decisions about which profile to use yourself for foods where you don’t know the calorie amount.

• Sticky Food Profiles – when you enter a calorie value for a food you’ve eaten, TWYE will now remember that value and apply it to your next entry. If you say a “Coke” is 140 calories, we’ll take your word for it, and the next time you drink one, you can leave off the calorie value and we’ll plug the calories you previously assigned to that food automatically.

• New privacy setting!– One feature we haven’t otherwise announced is a new privacy setting which allows you to opt-out from having your diary entries appear on the homepage. This is a feature a handful of users have requested, and one we were able to sneak into this release. The setting can be found in My Diary under Edit Settings.

Many thanks to TWYE’s beta test team, specifically Wirble, ivndtrrble, and ma1825. Thanks for all your help and valuable feedback! Please post your impressions of the new release here in the comments or shoot off an email to info@tweetwhatyoueat.com.

Tweetwhatyoueat is putting the finishing touches on some exciting new changes to bring you an improved, one-of-a-kind food diary experience with unparalleled ease of use. We’ve added this News section to keep you informed of the upcoming changes. Here’s what’s in store for the new Tweetwhatyoueat!

• Sticky Food Profiles – Anytime you enter calories for a food in your diary, TWYE will remember that value and automatically apply it to all subsequent entries. We call these “Sticky food profiles.” You can override the profile on an individual basis by editing an entry directly.
• Zero calorie, calorie look-ups – Enable the new “use food profiles” setting and TWYE will automatically try and match uncaloried foods in your diary with calorie entries submitted by other users. It’s calorie crowd sourcing and it’s a first, only from Tweetwhatyoueat.

Below is a sneak peak of how your diary will look when the new “use food profiles” setting is on. “n/a” entries in your diary will be auto-filled with calorie amounts if someone else in the community has eaten that food and assigned it a calorie value.

Clicking the calorie amount opens the food profile dialogue (as seen above) revealing the available calorie profiles for that food. Profiles in the dialogue are weighted. Any profile submitted or selected by you appears at the top of the list and is designated with a “me” icon. Profiles are then ranked by the number of users using them.

The calorie value of the active profile is shown in-line in your diary. If you haven’t selected or submitted a profile directly using the food profile dialogue, the highest ranked food profile will be used by default when the setting is activated. You can always select an alternate food profile from the dialogue at any point by clicking it. This will retroactively apply the profile to all previous entries for that food.

We’d love to hear from you about these changes so please post your questions and comments.