Bon voyage, feed! The feed is retiring today
A few months ago we announced we would no longer be spending time on the feed and the bugs associated. The day has come where we retire the feed for good and remove it from the platform. We know some love the feature and will be sad to see it go and we get that. Thank you for being understanding and realizing that sometimes we have to make tough decisions for the greater good of the site.
@Jill7Cups I understand. The feed was my home when I first joined the Around the World Community, a platform for which I could share the wonders of the globe with members and listeners on this site. It was glitchy, difficult to upload, and gave me such a hard time with hashtags, but I loved it. The experience from learning from the members/listeners for #AroundtheWorld project was wholesome, from designing pictures and fonts for quotes to watching it on the #countrycommunity feed. The response has been amazing and taught me so much about diversity and cultural understanding. I hope I was able to break barriers with the feed, and sad to see it go.
But hey, it's still a wonderful world. Bon voyage, feed. You will be greatly missed.
omg <\3
@Jill7Cups
Feed is going?? God no why? This is so sad. Why?
@Jill7Cups
Aww that is so sad Ive just started getting accustomed to the feed/using my feed, and now this. Oh well I hope good things come from this new change...
7CUPS IS DROPPING THE BALL AND IT DOESNT TAKE MUCH FOR US TO JUST PACK IT UP AND FIND A BETTER SITE....
HERE IS ANOTHER 7CUPS GLITCH!!
Im stuck on step 73 on my member account
I've not been able to take the next step on my grouth path in about a month. Ive played that sound video many times but it wont give acknowlegment for it. Do you remember the one called "Practice Your Mindfulness"
(Just sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes and listen) its says its 3 min+ but its 5 min+, and so i cannot get more than one day in a row. The last thing i want to do is listen to that again lol, im trying to move up the path, i heard the 5 minute thing completely dozens of times so i can move on. My goal path will not let me on from #73 to #74 because im not getting credit for that 5min relaxation thing ive heard way to many times. (5 minutes and 22 seconds) I want 7cups to fix it but have no clue how to report it. I think I'm going to research and find a better site!
@FuturesRise It's difficult for glitches to be fixed if not reported.
@FuturesRise it gives you the oppurtunity to choose a different activity if that video isnt what you want to do maybe try that to see if it works upon completion
@CaringBrit
Hi, yes, i knew that but I forgot to mention i see it for 2-3 seconds and click at it while i can see it but its not working, and then the option disapears. I should have included that in my message to support@7cups.com
Im going to add this and send a new email to them. Thanks for reminding me 😊
@Jill7Cups
Isn't it a bit too early for April Fools'...?
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
