Bon voyage, feed! The feed is retiring today

Retirement/discontinuation is inevitable for any type of feature(s) on any Web sites. Now hopefully, let's continue to improve the safety and security + protection of the 7 cups community as a whole, which is paramount here.

@Jill7Cups

This is not a good news for me either but I hope something better is on it's way!!!

@Jill7Cups

i am sincerely looking forward to how ye guise will compensate the takedown of the feed feature for this so-called 'the greater good of the site'.

I can't express how disappointed i am. If it is known that this decision would affect a lot of members and listeners in a negative way, I highly doubt anyone cares about us. Every since I joined this site- 4 years ago- I really enjoyed the feed, it has been a way of expressing ourselves in our little space where friends could read and heart our posts. It was a good way to make and keep friends. So sad.....

I know there is forum where we can write, but feed was something where we could post things that only our followers could see...

Not sure how complicated solving whatever was wrong with the feed would have been, but is extremely discouraging for some of us to keep using this site. I just feel like every little nice thing on this site is slowly taken away from us and we can;t do anything.

I don't want to be told that this decision is going good on the long run etc beacause I doubt. 7 cups is not the same without the feed, how are we going to communicate or support or followers/friends, if we can;t even tag them on our feed, nor can we PM other members?

I used to love 7 cups, but I am so disappointed by such decisions. I hope you do realize that you are slowly pushing people away from the site, some of them forever, if our opinion doesn;t matter....

@DarkCoffee Thank you dearly for voicing my own thoughts in such an expressive way. I have never used the forum in four years because it feels very vulnerable for me. But, the feeds I enjoyed so much, because they helped me with the healing magnetism of connecting with the people I knew could understand me. Specific words in people's feeds actually created conversations that have lasted for years and healed me for years. It is so powerful to feel this kind of nurturing when it can be shared in more nuanced ways, either to bring people to a point of feeling safe to reach out, or for conveying vulnerability with respect. The removal of the feed is the one thing that has forced me to post in the forum, and I am deeply grateful to you for sharing your thoughts.

@DarkCoffee Solving it would not have been complicated. We were told the problem with the feed was the cost of running it and maintaining it. In the five months since we were told that, a cheaper replacement could easily have been put in place. Why this didn't happen is a mystery.

But note that your feed was never private. It's not true that only your followers could see it. Anyone on the Internet could see it.

In future you can communicate with followers and friends in a diary thread in the forum. Make sure you act quickly to copy your list of followers and paste it somewhere you can save it. Then you can tag them all when you create your diary.

Charlie

@RarelyCharlie The big issue I see is I do know some about web design.....the feed maybe cost them a little while they were maintaining it, but it literally wouldn't cost them anything afterwards. So there's literally zero reason to remove it besides it seems some of the PTB simply don't like it.

@Dawn04 Hmmm, that depends. The website moved fairly recently to Amazon Web Services (AWS). What if the feed uses a kind of database that AWS doesn't support. That could mean it has to be hosted more expensively somewhere else, and it would also be expensive to re-engineer it to use a different database. I'm just guessing here, because I don't know anything about the architecture, but I can imagine something like that happening.

But in another sense I do agree with you. If there are cost issues then the community deserves to have them explained in a realistic way.

Charlie

Hey @RarelyCharlie,

I am aware that the feed hasn't been entirely private, but at least we had some control if we chose the option to manually apprrove people to follow us....it felt more private than writing on forum where all could see in real time etc.

Thanks, but I don't think i will write diary etc on forum, i will find another place for that.

Thanks to all who have been making efforts to keep the feed alive

@RarelyCharlie

How do you create a diary thread in a forum? Sadly I didnt find this post until today so I cant save my following/followers. It is depressing

@indigoCup1959 Just go to Diary Entries and Connections and press the Create New Thread button. In your first post in your diary, tag any of your followers you happen to remember. After you create the thread, you can make a link to it in your profile so that other people who want to follow you can find it easily.

Charlie

But I made possibly the most important friend in my entire life and I can't talk to her anymore. This is all I have.

@tluper6491

You can make a thread in our diary entries & connections subforum with your friend

@MonBon Forums are far less private....and as one of many people who have dealt with a stalker, not a solution.

@Dawn04

Exactly. I don't feel comfortable having open public discussions with my friend. That's how we became such close friends, I could talk to her comfortably about anything and in confidence my privacy (as well as her's) would be respected. I didn't even feel comfortable using the feed to talk to her because it felt too public. We can't send private messages to non-listeners, her listener account doesn't exist anymore, so now without even the feed to talk to her, our friendship is effectively just over now because we have absolutely no way to contact each other. And again, this was probably the most important friend I could ever have. I'm NEVER going to find anyone I can relate to as much. I can't become a listener myself so we can talk because I'm a worthless idiot who can't take care of himself much less listen to other people's problems and I can't just make an account just to talk to her and ignore anyone else who wants to talk to me.

So in other words I've lost the only person on the planet I can truly talk to now. I have nobody. Talking to her on the forum isn't an option because anybody can read it. So by removing the feed my only real friend is now completely gone and I have no way to directly contact her without the entire world seeing it.

@tluper6491

Now I can't even see who I'm following, even if I wanted to make a public thread how am I supposed to tag her if I don't have her screen name? I can't even do that.

@tluper6491

how much of her screen name do you remember i could try to find her rarelycharlie has a search tool for members i think it would work with just knowing most of her screen name but you can pm me if youd like to and i could try to help

@Dawn04

The forums are actually more private than posting to your feed, just an FYI. I know it's not a 1-1 solution, I was just trying to provide an alternative.

@MonBon I can block people from contacting me and what was my feed - I can't do the same in forums.

[Edited by Anomalia for unsupportive content]

@Dawn04

They could see everything you posted, so what you posted was not private. That is what I mean. It is much harder to find someone's forum posts than it is to visit their profile and read all of their feed posts.

@MonBon

How am I supposed to do that if I can't find her account?

@MonBon

I made a thread and it got deleted. What else can I do? This friend means the world to me and I have nobody else.

@tluper6491

hey there! Can you pm me? I can restore deleted thread but I need more information.

As soon as the feed stopped working, I used the site less. Now there is no feed at all I don't see any point in using it at all. Such a sad day.

Hugs @LittleLotte

@Jill7Cups

With the feed, with the "support network" retire as well?

I'm wondering because this is where I have a lovely list of friends and supporters that I could use to tag in forum posts.

Thanks a bunch <3

@SkySeaTurtle

What is the "support network"?

List of Brave Acts https://www.7cups.com/forum/PositivityGratitude_170/IcebreakersInspiringQuotesImagesandVideos_1167/ListofBraveActs_211047/

@ThankYouForLettingMeTryingToHelp

It's your list of followers and who you're following on the feed

@MonBon

Where can such a list be found?

List of Brave Acts https://www.7cups.com/forum/PositivityGratitude_170/IcebreakersInspiringQuotesImagesandVideos_1167/ListofBraveActs_211047/

@ThankYouForLettingMeTryingToHelp

It is on your feed when you click "support network"

@MonBon

Checking now.

List of Brave Acts https://www.7cups.com/forum/PositivityGratitude_170/IcebreakersInspiringQuotesImagesandVideos_1167/ListofBraveActs_211047/

@SkySeaTurtle

I recommend copying that list and storing it elsewhere for now. The follow feature will be removed which likely means your list of followers and following will be removed as well.

@Jill7Cups

I'm really sorry to hear that, feed was one of my favourite features on here. I just hope this update brings us more good <3

@Jill7Cups

not cool......

@RumpleSteeleSkin

*hugs Rumple*

@Jill7Cups When will this all occur?

Sad, angry in a sense but I guess nothing I feel will stop it from disappearing.

Feed was like a calm breeze whenever I felt plagued with lot of thoughts in my head.going to miss lot of people associated with feeds.feed friends😭😭😭😭

Greater good ????but I guess my heart wants to think selfish and whine😭😂.

@Jill7Cups

Thanks for letting us know Jill. With all the issues it makes sense.

@Jillcups

Feed you will be missed 💞. Thanks for motivating me everyday, brightening my days and giving me a space to write. Hugs, u are loved and will be missed.