I found this thread when I saw the period tracker has been updated since my last period. All the links to user feedback pages revert back here. There's no topics about this on the feedback page as to today. Yeah, this update sucks. It's a downgrade. And I will no longer be using fitbit.
My specific complaints about the change are below, but they are beside the point right now. The way fitbit has treated the people here, who have been complaining for a month, with disregard and contempt, is more disgusting to me than a terrible design change. We got one official response in this thread, from an employee(?) who assumed we just didn't know how to navigate the page. All the feedback posts have been canceled. Appalling. They could at least pretend they are listening. Make up an excuse as to why it can't be changed back. Try to sell us on why this is more useful. ANYTHING.
I miss the rolling calendar. Obviously. It was the best part. I used to use a paper calendar to track periods. When I got my first fitbit, nearly a decade ago, I was sold on their period tracking rolling calendar. This new update is basically undoing a decade of progress in visual data representation.
Not being able to see more than 3 months ahead is a problem, because I travel a lot. Including in July, where there is no data at the moment. My period is regular, but this app eliminated having to manually count it all out and did that mental labor for me. Now I'm back to *paper calendars*. Or my phone calendar. Either way, it involves manual entry.
I now have to cross reference the list of symptoms on the bottom of the page with the calendar up top because I am a visual person and would prefer the icons in the calendar and not a list. I could make a list on paper if I wanted that. The icons were an easy visual shorthand. The new calendar doesn't tell me that I have additional symptoms on the days leading up to my period via a dot. This is not adding value.
Smaller complaints: 1) The days of the week being on the bottom of the calendar is just stupid. 2) I'm 35, you can let me close out the massive section of my screen explaining what a period is. 3) Logging a period involves going to a new screen where you select the beginning and end dates from a calendar drop down. I know the drag and drop didn't always work well, but they could have just added a manual entry option to the old system. This is adding 3 more steps to what used to be a 1 step process
