"most recent" doesn't suggest most recent at all

AlexC

I don't know if others are experiencing this, but logging food into Cronometer I'm being suggested food (having selected "most recent" sorting) which I have either never ever logged, or haven't logged for a very long time. This makes logging a very tedious experience as i have to type the name of every single food item i log (or scan their barcode). Takes twice the time it's supposed to take.

Is this a bug? Or is there any possibility to reset the algorithm? I've tried logging out and back in, clearing app data—nothing.

AlexC

Hello,

Is this being investigated?

This behavior is really annoying.

Karen_Cronometer

Yep! We've got some changes coming in the food search.

So we can test it better on our end, it would be helpful to know:

Is this on web or mobile? If mobile, what version on you using? iOS or Android?
Is this happening every time or intermittently? For example, when using the filter to show your recent foods in the default list in the food search, then adding a new food to your diary it never appears in your default food search list or only sometimes?
Screenshots/recordings can also help us diagnose the issue too.

Thanks!

AlexC

this is on mobile, I don’t really use the web app except for graphs

Android 3.10.3 b1035AF-s

happens only with certain food, so intermittently

The_Real_Redding

Happening here as well. In fact, I posted about this today not seeing this post. I’m using an iPhone 12 Max Pro running iOS 14.7.1

it happens all the time for me, I even have a video showing it happen. The Sort by Most Frequent it’s also broken. I have to favourite every item and then set the “Favourites “ filter to see any of the foods I regularly add.

I’m sorry, I adore Cronometers database, but the search functionality is just an utter mess.

Karen_Cronometer

Thanks for your feedback Could you send that video to support@cronometer.com @The_Real_Redding ? It's great to see it in action so we can try and reproduce and nail down what's going wrong.

We have some changes coming to the food search coming down the pipe. I'll pop back over to this thread to ask if you guys see any improvements when that comes out.

The_Real_Redding

@Karen_Cronometer sure, what address would you like the video sent to?

Karen_Cronometer

support@cronometer.com please.

Thanks so much!

Karen_Cronometer

We've released some changes to the food search on the mobile app that we're hoping addresses the issues you've been having. Check it out on v.3.11.0!