Return to scrolling caledar for menstrual health tracker

The recent updates to the menstrual tracker make it hard to log information and review previous data. Cycles vary massively, and do not fit neatly into a calendar month. The scrolling calendar made it much easier to look back, count weeks and log symptoms, periods etc. please consider reverting to the previous calendar design.
8 Comments
ACCWoman
Jogger

I agree with all of this. The previous design was much more useful and easier to navigate!

Newfitkitty
Hill Runner

Plus it was more fun for anyways to see how much having a IUD had changed my out of control (Thanks to blood thinner) period to just spotting. I also loved how much easier back then it was to see on what days I felt happy, sad, energized, etc. Plus it didn't restart the period days if I didn't click confirm. Seriously I didn't click confirm for like a long time and it logged it as a 20 day period when I finally did. I don't need this type of anxiety So, change it back please and live by the old saying "If it isn't broke don't fix it."

modulation03
First Steps

I want to support this call out. Personally, I have troubles keeping all wearables properly charged, and find it difficult to sleep at night when this thing lights up on night movements,

HOWEVER

the menstrual cycle calendar in the app IS the reason I keep it around and would also go into other products when the need of looking at the other health markers arrive.

I NEED THE SCROOL TO BE BACK. This new calendar display makes it completely unusable. Honestly, sometimes I think, when such implementation decisions arise in technology teams, that it is because there is no one using it on the team! Do you have women in the team who use your own product for that purpose? If you have women, but they use something else, time to figure out WHY.

Newfitkitty
Hill Runner

@modulation03 Some of us can barely see the print as is when it comes to fitbit Most mornings when I have summer allergies my eyes are to dry to focus and I really need those smiley icons and period icons to know what I am tapping.

 

@ACCWoman All the old designs were better before they changed it. I mean I used to use my GPS part on walks and while it is still there they nor longer list the street and it looks like someone took a marker to it for the tracing of where I went. I often go visit family in other states or cities and it would be nice to look back on what I walked when visiting them. (Oh once just for fun I used my GPS while I drove around to the bank, the store, the places I had to pay bills at, and to get food. When I got home it looked sweet. I laughed about it for months). I mean fitbit GPS is more accurate then google maps GPS and it is google maps they use. I compared it once to just using google maps and somehow I must have super powers because I phase through yards and houses on my walks.

bizlizard
First Steps

I agree - the new tracker is missing so many features I had relied on for years. Trends, symptom tracker, editing a period, etc. I also don't like that you can really only look at one month at a time. It doesn't do me much good to just look at a list, I would like to see the dots on the calendar that coincided with an entry.

bakingstones
Jogger

I totally agree, not being able to scroll (& having the days of the week at the bottom of the calendar) make it much less usable. i won't be buying fitbit again when my watch dies.

Newfitkitty
Hill Runner

@bakingstones I still love some features so not sure what I will do should that day comes. But I do know that I won't be using the calendar until they return it to normal.

mum2boo
Recovery Runner

I agree wholeheartedly that the scrolling calendar needs to return to the menstrual health tracker.  

My fitbit is now struggling to charge, so looks like I need either a new fitbit or a new charger... unless the menstrual health tracker reverts back to a user friendly version, I will be purchasing a different brand of tracker, one which listens to its customers. 

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