Alex Brecher

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I took care of it for you. You can access on any desktop or tablet or even a mobile browser: http://www.bariatricpal.com/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=notifications

You can manage all your notifications from your browser by clicking here.

Are you a social media expert? Do you want to be part of the BariatricPal team and work with me to promote our community? You can contribute to BariatricPal’s face and voice by becoming a BariatricPal Ambassador! Each BariatricPal Ambassador is responsible for managing BariatricPal’s space on a social media site. I am looking for ambassadors to manage the following sites: FaceBook Twitter YouTube Pinterest Google+ Since you will be representing BariatricPal, I am looking for members who are enthusiastic about fighting obesity through weight loss surgery and welcoming curious individuals to BariatricPal’s social media sites and BariatricPal.com. You will also respond to people’s comments and questions. Here is how you can apply to become a BariatricPal Ambassador. Contact me via email at alex@BariatricPal.com or through private messaging (PM). I am looking for at least one member to represent each type of weight loss surgery, so be sure to let me know which social community you would like to manage for BariatricPal. Also, describe your experience and the size of your own following on the social community that you are applying to manage. Thanks!

Are you a BariatricPal junkie? Do you visit every day to read the forums, join the conversations, and see how your BariatricPal friends are doing? Are you always among the first members to greet newbies and show them the ropes, to answer member questions, and to politely provide accurate information when you see that someone has made a mistake? If so, you might be one of the BariatricPal Forum Hosts that we are looking for to maintain the board’s high standards! Our site includes many forums and sub-forums, and Forum Hosts help us keep the site running smoothly for our members! Forum Hosts also help keep the conversations as courteous, welcoming, and informative as they always have been. Editing post titles and posts for Text-speak, misspellings, and poor formatting Moving posts to appropriate forums Welcoming new members Responding to unanswered posts Congratulating members on upcoming or recent surgeries or surgeraviseries Reporting inappropriate posts Contacting BariatricPal staff to resolve technical problems Sharing your weight loss surgery experience and knowledge when you feel it would be helpful Please let us know if you would like to be considered to be a Forum Host! Let us know which forum(s) or sub-forum(s) you are most interested in hosting. We consider all of these factors. Length of membership with BariatricPal (or on any of any of our previous forums if you are a long-time member who has been with us since the days of LapBandTalk, VerticalSleeveTalk, RNYTalk, or SleevePlicationTalk). Number of posts on BariatricPal (or on any of any of our previous forums if you are a long-time member who has been with us since the days of LapBandTalk, VerticalSleeveTalk, RNYTalk, or SleevePlicationTalk). Demonstrated dedication to providing information and encouragement to other BariatricPal members. No complaints from other members about inappropriate posts or other activity on BariatricPal. Contact me via email at alex@BariatricPal.com or through private messaging (PM). We look forward to hearing from you!

Corrected for you! If anyone else has this issue.... 1) Go to your Patient Profile 2) Make sure you have the correct surgery selected 3) Click save (that's what did the trick.)

Appreciate the feedback! This is a feature we definitely will offer in future releases of our apps. I'd say we're about 2-3 months away from releasing that specific feature.

We've been paying close attention to member feedback since we launched BariatricPal. We're happy to announce the following changes and updates: Once a member selects their weight loss surgery type within "My Patient Profile": Your default forum landing page is based on the surgery selected. Topics shown in View New Content on our web site are topics based on the procedure you selected Topics in the "Current" tab on our iOS and Android apps are topics based on the procedure you selected Please Note: You can opt out of this feature by checking off the "Show me content from all other surgery types" found within "My Patient Profile" We've made additional changes to separate members based on their surgery type. Most content is also served based on the surgery members selected within their Patient Profile. ​We corrected all outstanding issues with members uploading their Before and After photos. You can upload your pics by clicking here. Please remember to select your Bariatric surgeon, leave them a review and share your weight loss surgery story while you're at it! You can report all web site or app related issues to our Assistance and Suggestion forum. Please contact me directly if you're having any account related issues. We really appreciate your feedback. Please keep it coming!

This issue has been resolved.

Should be fixed a little later this eve. I'll update you as soon as it is.

This should be fixed now. Please let me know if you're still experiencing issues.

NO! I have lapband and others and I am signed in!! This is a bug....it'll be fixed at some point tomorrow. It's the 2nd button if you're using the Mobile apps. We call it New Content on the web site. Yep, me too! Anytime I send a reply. It "clocks" and then if I close the app and restart, the post is there! Are you able to grab a screen shot for me ? I've had similar issues but haven't noticed it the last few days. Our current mobile apps are pretty buggy. We're going to release a new set of apps shortly which will fix most of these issues. Thank you to everyone for your feedback and support. It's greatly appreciated!!!

Please please be more specific. What exactly isn't working ? We plan on releasing a new Android app very very shortly. On iPhone app I can only see VST posts in Current, but I'm hoping posts in Research and other cross surgery areas will also appear there. Until I have posted without freezes, have line spaces showing, can edit, am seeing formatted text rather than code in others posts, and am being notified of "likes" on my posts I'm reserving judgement.... EDIT: post didn't freeze but line space not showing. EDIT 2: Edit worked seamlessly (at last!) I all posts from forums under "General Weight Loss Surgery Forums". Let me know if you're not seeing them please. I'm still seeing the "<br> <br>" stuff on PMs. I'm seeing the same s%$#! It's not personal. It's on our list, thanks! Also, mine iPhone app is still timing out as bad as ever. When is it timing out ? Are you receiving a specific error ? More details please.

Curious what you're using to browse the forums ? Desktop ? Phone ? Tablet ? Using our app or web site ? It's located in: BariatricPal → Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums → Main Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums → Gastric Sleeve Veteran's Forum Gastric Sleeve Veterans Forum: http://www.bariatricpal.com/forum/694-gastric-sleeve-veterans-forum/

Mmmmm....I need to research your issue further. In the interim I set you to see all content. You can edit this manually in "Filter by forum" option found on the bottom right of the New Content screen.

I have a huge amount of gratitude to all of you guys and gals! Really appreciate the support. THANK YOU! Happy Thanksgivukkah!

Your patient profile.

You're very welcome! The chat system we're currently using is only a temp solution. We plan on implementing a multi room system in the near future.

Still having this issue ? Can you reboot app please ? It would be wonderful if you got the exact error or screenshot.

I'd PM you about this issue but .... "The message system appears started malfunctioning" I believe this issue is resolved. Please let mew know if you're still experiencing any issues!

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Filtering will be arriving shortly. We're listening to your feedback and are planning updates and changes accordingly.

This feature will be back within the next 1-2 days.

Are you using the web site or app ? This will change shortly.

I believe we've corrected this issue. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!