Hi all,

I'm Maxwell, head of the traineo development team.

If you have any questions, queries, comments, or potential bugs, please post them here!

Many thanks,

Maxwell

Traineo made it to the front page of digg, and you might want to check out the comments posted underneath for numerous suggestions, additions, etc.. So far I love the site!

Here is the link to the mention on digg.com:
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New member via Digg.com.

Quick question: In My Workouts, do you treat a run on a treadmill the same as a run outside? I run 3-5 miles a day on a treadmill, but wonder if it's fair to equate that with an outside run?

Dumb question - but where can you update your height. I entered it incorrectly and don't see anywhere to correct it.

If you've got your height wrong, please just drop me a contact request with the correct height and I'll fix it for you.

Thanks,

Max

@Chase
We saw - we've had over 2500 new members in the last few hours, and we've been inundated with suggestions and ideas - we're now going try to implement some of the better ideas, within the next few days.

@Greg
Treadmill running is actually a fair bit lighter than outdoor running - less variation, and you're not actually moving, which also has a considerable impact. Also, treadmills tend to have a fair bit of bounce to them, further reducing the load, but they're a lot better for your knees.

First, good job and great idea on encouraging motivation for diet and exercise.

My problem is with the diet log. For some reason the range on my page for calories is way too high. I rarely eat the minimum listed, much less the maximum. There is no way for me to adjust the scale (I assume this is due to some calculation based upon weight/height/sex). Either a text field or a scale from 0 to the maximum would likely be the best solution. I know it says "2400-" for the smallest, so being on the very right means below that but I would rather have an exact measure and have the Daily Diet Score still not increase after that minimum in order to acurately portray my intake.

Aaron

Thanks for your feedback - we might actually adjust that scale slightly, as it does tend to be a bit on the high side.

As you guessed, it's based upon current weight, height, and sex.

For now, I recommend going for the far right option, and we'll discuss adjustment of the scale, or maybe allowing for some degree of user adjustment, among ourselves - if you or anyone else has any thoughts on that please do let us know!

Thanks,

Max

How do you enter the actual amount of calories you ate? I can appreciate Traneo encouraging me to eat within the desired range, but it seems well, pointless really, to keep me from reporting what I actually ate on a given day.

Is there no way to scroll the scale left or right so I can reach the actual numbers?

Hi Mark,

The idea really is to encourage you to eat within a range - if you eat below the range, then you can give yourself the highest score. We're currently discussing extending, moving, or broadening the range available.

Thanks,

Max

Max,

I understand the encouragement factor. Heck, put the target calories at the center of the scale, bracket them with green, then a yellow zone, and finally a red range. Give a warning if you like. But I'd definitely prefer to be able to enter a real value.

Today, for example, I was caught in a series of meetings. I managed to snag one semi-stale bagel from the back of the room as my only "meal" between 6AM and 6PM. I'll go home tonight and try to have a much more balanced supper, but I'm certainly not going to pack in the 1500 or so calories it would take to bring my daily consumption up to the minimum number it will let me input. It's not something I was shooting for, it just happened.

I rated my diet today as "poor" (and it certainly was), but the current system forces me to lie about the calories I ate, and that makes it very difficult to track actual results.

Another Digg user... Great looking site, BTW. :-)

My wife and I both wanted to sign up to traineo and become motivators for each other. I signed up with my "sign-up-on-web-sites" e-mail address instead of using the one my friends and family normally e-mail me with. I sent a request to my wife through the site to sign up as my motivator, and she signed up as expected. She then sent a request to me for me to become her motivator as well.

Of course, she didn't send it to the same e-mail address I used to sign up for traineo, so the message I received linked me to a page to sign up as a new user. I figured I already had an account, so I clicked the "sign in here" link at the top instead, but after I logged in, it did not show me as her motivator (or her as one of my motivatees).

I figure I can easily get around this by having her send another request to the right e-mail address, but I think this would be a good thing to fix on the site. I should be able to follow the link from my e-mail and tell it that I already have an account and to link my current account to the request.

:-)

Max,

Is there a way to remove a motivator?

Hi Stephen -

Do you mean you invited someone from outside to be your motivator, and you invited the wrong person, or you invited someone on the site to be your motivator, and it was the wrong person?

If it's someone external, and they've not yet joined, you can cancel the external invite from the motivators pane in the bottom left of the home page.

If they're already your motivator, you can't remove them, but they can remove you. This is intentional, the idea being that if someone is motivating you and you decide you can't be bothered, you can't just quitely stop them being your motivator!

So, your best course of action is probably just to drop them a message and ask them to delete you (click on the motivees pane, again in the bottom left corner, and click the red icon next to their name).

Hope that makes sense

Thanks,

Alasdair
the traineo team

@Greg
Treadmill running is actually a fair bit lighter than outdoor running - less variation, and you're not actually moving, which also has a considerable impact. Also, treadmills tend to have a fair bit of bounce to them, further reducing the load, but they're a lot better for your knees.


Max -- Indeed. Thanks for updating the workout options (if that was you). The treadmill IS much "easier" than an outside run -- though I always run intervals with the "Hills" option and do my best to run at a constant 6.5MPH or faster...

Help! I cannot update my location! When I click "change", a box comes up that asks for the country/city, but then my options are "close" or "change city". No "update" option!

Hi Sarah,

If you just type your new location in, in the place of your old one, and then click 'change city', this will update your location!

Thanks,

Max

How do you change your height?

Thanks

Sorry, I just noticed someone already asked that question...

Having trouble with my homepage. I've entered the url exactly as in the welcome email but the screen says that the page doesn't exist on traineo.

Quick question: In My Workouts, do you treat a run on a treadmill the same as a run outside? I run 3-5 miles a day on a treadmill, but wonder if it's fair to equate that with an outside run?

Greg, I've heard that if you want to modify your treadmill running to attempt to "simulate" an outdoor run on a flat surface, you need to increase the incline on the treadmill to 1%

Hi Dave,

You need to enable viewing of your homepage on your profile settings for it to be viewable - these you can find at the top of the members page, or in the 'profile settings' part of the about me page.

Colin - that's pretty much right - although in reality there isn't really such a thing as an outdoor run on a flat surface!

I have checked out the RSS feed to possibly include in a web page. I have a concern with the current format/numbers. It seems that the days that I do not place a weight into My Stats, the RSS feed shows it as 0.0lbs. This is not true, I did not disintegrate. I don't think that it is a good thing to weigh yourself every day (especially how weight can sometimes fluctuate even with a regular time for weighing yourself). Is there any way to fix that?

Also, it would be better if each piece of data were on its own line. That way when I have a program that parses the information, I can parse it on new line for each stat. Otherwise parsing it becomes somewhat more difficult.

Another point is that these statistics are not in any discernable order. It would be much more helpful if the most recent entry were at top (as is standard for RSS) and previous entries in descending date.

Is it also possible to have the graphs included on other pages? Like it would be cool to do something like http://www.traineo.com/graph?type=diet&user=USERNA ME and it would have the last week's graph. People could specify in their profile whether these images would be accessible by the world or not. Just an idea.

I love your progress on the site thus far and can't wait to see how it comes along!

How can I change my starting weight? I estimated when I initially signed up and weighed myself later. I input my correct weight, but now traineo is registering a 12 pound loss in 1 day.

Hi

If you want to drop us an email, we can update this for you. We are about to release an update in the next day where you can ammend the starting weight/height you entered along with your name (if required)

Thanks Aaron for your suggestions - we'll definately bear those in mind and release an update ASAP

Thanks

Chris M

While I was troubleshooting the problem with accessing previous dates with Max I had forgotten I had the interface set back to Aug-19 and I entered this morning's weigh-in of 302 lbs (down 2 lbs, WOOT!) for the wrong date. I realized what I'd done and wanted to remove the data point from the chart because I didn't really weigh in on Aug-18, Aug-19, and today (Aug-23).

My first thought was removing the value and hitting submit. That didn't work. I punted with entering 304 which matched my Aug-18 weigh-in, but that's still not accurate.

Am I missing something or is this a possible feature request?

I would like the ability to add my measurements along with my weight, because although I haven't lost much weight, I know that I've definitely slimmed down and I'd like to be able to keep track of that too.

Great site!

@Steven - yes, that'd be a feature request, so I've added it to our to-do.
@Eva - We'll be adding the ability to measure other things in the very near future
@Aaron - The RSS feed isn't perfect, to be honest - it was thrown together in about 20 mins after it was requested. I'll take a look at it and see if I can rationalise it a little, and make sure it doesn't display erroneous data if there is none available.



If your traineo page is publically accessible, you can copy the location of the image there, and it'll be hotlinked to our server, so will dynamically update. The format of the URL should be moderately self-explanatory, although I'd hold off right now as we're about to roll out a major update to the graphs.

Thanks,

Maxwell

Quick question/problem:

When I enter 5 minutes or so into my workouts...for either Weight training or Running, it shows up as 50 minutes on my graph? Why?

I know 5 minutes isn't that much...but it's more accurate than 50 minutes ;).

Thanks,
Will

Hi Will

Thanks for bringing that to our attention. The calorie figure given is correct but there appears to be a display bug on the graph

We'll look at that right now

Thanks

Chris M