Over the last few months, we have received a ton of great new feature requests from all of you for The Daily Plate. We appreciate your taking the time to give us your feedback, and we want to let you know that it is incredibly valuable to us. We believe that listening to our users is the only way to build a great product.

Thanks to the ongoing support of our Gold members, we’re able to work on some new, exciting, and much-requested features for the site. Here’s a list of the top 3 features that have been requested — we want your help to decide which one we should work on first… You can vote right on the site!

1. Diary Enhancements
This popular feature-request calls for more options for diaries. (If you’re not familiar with TDP Diaries, it’s a tool that lets you track how you’re feeling along with what you’re eating each day, either publicly or just for yourself.) We’ve already heeded your request to clean up the look and feel of diaries, and to allow other members to comment on your diary. But there are other features you’d like: The ability to make the comments in your diary private, but the foods you’ve eaten public, for one; email notification of new comments is another.

2. More “Tagging” Features for Food Items
Currently, only The Daily Plate staff members can add or edit tags to food items (like “soda” on Coca-Cola, for example). But there are just a few of us, and thousands of you! And so our members have wisely asked for the ability to add and edit tags themselves, so that it’s easier to find items by category.

3. Meals Improvements
There are a slew of requests for upgrades to the Meals system! You’ve asked for the ability to identify meals as being for specific mealtimes (e.g., “lunch”), the ability to upload an image for a meal, a way to share meals with others, and the option of listing a meal as a single line item on MyPlate, instead of separate lines for each component of a meal.

Again, we value your feedback! Please VOTE for the feature you’d like to see implemented first!

We’d also like to take a quick opportunity to thank our moderators. A couple months ago, we first put out a call for volunteers to help us run the site. The Daily Plate is a labor of love for us, and as the site grows in popularity, we really need some extra help to keep with the thousands of new foods added each week, questions on the message boards, and so on. Well, we need even more moderators, so if you’re interested in helping us out, please let us know!

If you don’t have enough free time to lend a hand as a moderator, but you still want to support the site — first of all, thank you for the kind sentiment! And secondly, please consider upgrading to Gold. You’ll unlock a bunch of extra features on the site, and be helping us to pay for our site’s hosting, upkeep, and feature development.

That’s it for now. As always, we wish you all the best in your quest for healthy eating!