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Introducing: Grow Diaries V2.0

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Added 17 February 2025

 

Short video about key updates:

 

We are excited to announce, and finally unveil, Grow Diaries V2.0, the latest version of the largest cannabis-growing community, designed by and for growers.

With a sleek new layout and interactive graphs, you can access all the information you need with just one click, making it more convenient, less time-consuming, and far more efficient to gather all the important details from each diary and grower.

 

New Diaries Layout

Our new scroll-down timeline layout eliminates the need to click up and down to find the right week or specific details. Simply scroll down through the weeks to see all pictures, basic information, questions, and comments in one seamless view!

Harvest Graphs

Introducing harvest graphs. Now, all diaries will compile key data, from seed to harvest, displaying it in easy-to-read graphs. Navigate the environmental conditions, track the duration of each growth stage, analyze and compare yields, and much more.


Enjoy faster navigation, a more intuitive interface, and brand-new tools designed to enhance your growing experience. We can't wait for your feedback!




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Hashy
Hashycommenteda day ago
Is anyone else having problems changing a diary cover picture after adding a week, the only way I can choose a new picture is by reverting back to the original diary layout. Also I'd like you to add a strain list onto growers profiles, (like the breeders section has). Showing a quick rundown of strains grown and results and other relevant data. I noticed a bug on my following tab where I can't unfollow certain growers, and some followed growers always show that they have updated diaries when they don't. Mega stoned so hope that all makes sense. 👍
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TherealNICOGREEN
TherealNICOGREENcommented15 hours ago
Så fik jeg det til at virke:) Jeg skal lige vende mig til det:) Men det SKAL SKU NOK BLIVE GODT! Elsker man kan rulle ned i dagbogen og følge ugerne i stedet skulle klikke sig ind hver gang man vil se en ny uge;-) genialt træk 💚
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommented8 hours ago
@TherealNICOGREEN Tak for din støtte! Ja, vi kan også godt lide vores nye layout! 👊
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Ocommented17 hours ago
"I don't like change!" LOL https://youtu.be/LHpdgHTINik
resi_max
resi_maxcommented4 hours ago
Another bug: The top reports that I have 19 diaries in one place, 16 diaries in another place, but if you count them there are 18. 3 different diary counts? This is very strange: https://i.imgur.com/QmnRtaT.png
AsNoriu
AsNoriucommented2 days ago
Still haven't got used to new layout, on mobile its complicated, on desktop- maybe better. Can you please sort old bugs ? 1. My following list is wrong. I follow 12 people, but you state that its 17, in list actually 12. 2. My registration date is younger than my oldest diary. How can it be ? 3. There is no @user_name in replays by default, so people dont get notifications. 4. GOTM is still full of bugs. January you scamed Organoman from win. 5. GOTM in February has a person who has 0 diaries, your rules states that person has to have it. 6. Writing any message and correcting it after works wrong. If you dont press space bar , your edited word is just disappearing ... 7. When writing a message and you put double space bar it drops next text to new column. 8. Delete meaningless like button in questions and answers. What for it exists if no accounting happens ??? 9. Review list is wrong. I have edited few diaries, each edit hangs as separate review. 10. If someone post on user wall any message - it never appear in notifications. 11. You still cant delete old or wrongly posted questions, whatever you do, they always stays ...
Rogue3000
Rogue3000commented10 hours ago
I can add that strain following process doesn't work properly, due to missing parts of URL path we have wrong link that goes to 404 error
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommented2 days ago
Hi @AsNoriu! Thank you for your very detailed feedback! We've already written down all the points, and moreover, fixed some of them, such as the counting of likes. In any case, thank you again! We appreciate and are open to feedback! 💪👍
00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Ocommented3 days ago
Maybe, freeze the header info frame at top - preferably slimmed down version of it once you start scrolling down. Otherwise have to go through several clicks to see it again... or a button that goes all the way to the top as opposed to clicking 'G" week and then scrolling up to see it again. name of diary, equipment etc... that stuff. Are likes dead? or, at least the tracking/counting of them? I hope it is true. Only motivates shit-ass behaviour. Think most rational people not engaging in hardcore shilling are sick of the meaningless, copy and paste bullshit comments farming for likes, lol. FFS, people use scripts for that stuff. It's not even a human sending 90% of diary comments, lol. 90% of the bandwidth this site uses are bots jamming on like buttons, bwahah.
00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Ocommented2 days ago
i was just curious if likes are being phased out or just temporary UI issues. if you stopped counting them, people would stop using the bots/AHK scripts etc, lol. I wonder how much bandwidth you pay for that goes directly to like farming? as far as my suggestion for the ui, if most people won't appreciate it, not worth the effort, of course. maybe a couple polls could help refine design in that regard once you filter out the "i don't like change" complaints, there's good info there.
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommented2 days ago
@00110001001001111O the header info - we will look into it. Need to evaluate how it'd look like. With the likes - I don't really see the point in using bots here :)
Khando
Khandocommented2 days ago
My top 3 complaints with the new UI that would get me to use it: 1. Can't update cover photo after saving week - Please add the popup to select cover photo after saving a week. 2. Please let me use left/right arrows to cycle through photos when viewing photos in a certain week. I love being able to quickly change between photos to see the growth difference by cycling through photos. 3. The ability to zoom/view larger photos does not exist in the new UI.
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@Khado We'll answer in the same very well-structured manner :) 1. Developers have said it should be fixed. 2. Now there is an opportunity to scroll the photos from top to bottom for a certain week, but we will also add arrows for left/right. 3. Work in progress on this one. Thanks for letting us know your thoughts! Have a great day!
Dabking
Dabkingcommenteda day ago
Bring back the list of strains. Also, for anyone trying to edit cover photos, you must hit he "actions" tab, then edit week, (and click your picture you want very very fast). Hope it helps
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@Dabking The list of strains had some issues, which is why we had to remove it. We are planning to bring it back next week. It'll be announced
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Xabii
Xabiicommented2 days ago
Big downgrade.
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@Xabii First of all, thanks for your time describing the issues/bugs. Let’s go step by step: 1. We will look into this. What we actually have now is the possibility to open the diary in a new tab—in this case, the diary will be full screen. 2. This info used to occupy quite a lot of space, so we figured we could keep it but make it more compact. That’s the design solution we came up with, and I think we need to give it some time before implementing further changes. 3. This will be fixed, thanks! 4. There’s a lot of stuff we are going to look into. 5. We get this comment, but as you mention below, we have lots of growers, and each one has their own view on this layout, which is important to us. For this case, we’ve kept the old version, which you can access at the bottom of any diary (there’s a button "Go Back to the Old Diary View"). Once again, thanks for pointing out the important issues! Have a great day!
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@Marbanya There is actually a button at the bottom of each diary letting growers get back to the old view👌
Xabii
Xabiicommented2 days ago
I didn't even know that works with the old overview, thanks a lot!
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Ocommented3 days ago
Cover photo -- re-add the pop up when editting a week. Currently you have to go to settings - edit diary - upload cover photo. So, after editing a week, you have to go somewhere else even though anytime you add a week, there's potential for a cover change. Think the minority uses 1 image for an entire diary. So, most would benefit from that being added back into the "edit week" process.
00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Ocommented2 days ago
it wasn't working that way recently. Whether a temporary problem or not i was not assuming.
Develgrow
Develgrowcommented2 days ago
Wenn auf Woche bearbeiten gehst und nix änders ,dann bis unten auf speichern drücken und er zeigt dir die Bilder an die hochgeladen wurden zum auswählen fürs Titelbild also eigentlich kein Problem
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommented2 days ago
@00110001001001111O looking into it! Thanks!
Grow4Releaf
Grow4Releafcommented3 days ago
Only thing I really noticed was a "Like" button for the updated version isn't readily available to click on growers posts.
Grow4Releaf
Grow4Releafcommented9 hours ago
Thanks for getting on that one quick!! But Unless I'm overlooking it, the only other thing I've noticed is a no "translate" button for diary weekly comment .
Cannavaria
Cannavariacommented2 days ago
Ist mir auch aufgefallen würd mir fehlen
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommented2 days ago
@Grow4Releaf - fixed! Thanks for writing about it!
SmithNuggets
SmithNuggetscommented2 days ago
What happened to auto translate? Looking at some diaries and they wrote thier comments but there isn't and auto translate
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@SmithNuggets Now, under every comment, there is a button for auto-translate. If this solution is not good enough, we will try to find a better one. Thanks for your feedback👊
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420Germany
420Germanycommented2 days ago
Only thing not good I noticed is the harvest section where days are displayed wrong. How can my plant grow in 26 days if I added X weeks :D might wanna look into it. Besides that I like it. I really really miss a app tho for this...
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@420Germany Super important observation! Thanks for sharing it with us! It will be fixed shortly!
BOTAN1ST
BOTAN1STcommented2 days ago
V1.0 was better for PC users
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
We know it takes time, but could you please let us know what do you think was better in v1.0?
Growlander
Growlandercommented2 days ago
I like it 👏
Philhsy
Philhsycommenteda day ago
Not really liking the new global position system, miss the likes, was a way to keep track somehow and that on your profile pge you cant see your own rank. Not liking that either. Otherwize its small buggs here a there but no worries BRING LIKES BACK Also i habe like 4 never started grows that i cant delete on my page its jut a picture of a seedling got 4 of those somehow..
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommented7 hours ago
@Philhsy The likes should be back by now!
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resi_max
resi_maxcommenteda day ago
One thing that would be nice is if you re-added the chat notification in the browser tab favicon like it was a year ago before an update, so we know when we have a message. Better yet would be to utilize the desktop notification feature a lot of web apps have these days.
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@resi_max We see the issues with the notifications. We are working on improvements. Thanks for letting us know! We appreciate it!
Spike_KCanG
Spike_KCanGcommented2 days ago
Last time I used the 2.0 view was yesterday, so please excuse me if these were already mentioned, discussed, fixed, etc.. 1. Where did the likes and reply/comment features go?? It's not possible to 'like' a weekly diary because the like button isn't there. Same applies for reply/comment. 2. Diary Comments now appear according to the week of the diary they were written. LOVE THIS!! But why the heck does every comment of the diary show how many comments/replies there are in total? Why not show the notification how many replies are directly in response to that specific comment? If that specific comment has no replies to it, I don't need to see a '7' in the upper right corner indicating there are 7 replies. 3. View 1.x already had this bug, but it still persists: notifications 😟 notifications are not coming in. No notifications someone replied to a Question you posted. No notification when someone liked your reply to a Question. No notification if someone likes your comment on their diary nor when they reply to your comment. To end on a positive note, I really enjoy being able to scroll through the entire diary. It saves me a lot of time browsing! Imo this was the best feature of 2.0 👍
Spike_KCanG
Spike_KCanGcommenteda day ago
Thank you for your reply! I am guessing the issue can't be identified anymore because it has already been added/fixed 💪 😬 Have a great day yourself!
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@Spike_KCanG No problem repeating some issues that have already been mentioned. That just lets us know how much you care and motivates us to fix them ASAP :) Added/Fixed We can't identify this issue. How it works now is that each week's post has a comments icon under it, and it shows the number of comments for that exact post. If possible, could you please send us a screenshot here? - growdiaries.com/contact Working on fixing this. We’re happy you like the layout! Have a great day👊
nijuana
nijuanacommented2 days ago
Very nice it's better to read/see content, we gain time and the features are good I like the graph and the total grow stages with the colours, good job 👍
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommenteda day ago
@nijuana I’m definitely forwarding this to the developers and designers! Thanks for making their day better!👍
HippyHemulen
HippyHemulencommented2 days ago
We need some smell and taste flavor wheel both seperated in new look and maybe more flavors than atm. Or then some where u can rate 0/10 potency, smell, taste etc. After you make smoke report it would be nice to get info on following list like new week have.
Hashy
Hashycommenteda day ago
Is anyone else having problems changing a diary cover picture after adding a week, the only way I can choose a new picture is by reverting back to the original diary layout. Also I'd like you to add a strain list onto growers profiles, (like the breeders section has). Showing a quick rundown of strains grown and results and other relevant data. I noticed a bug on my following tab where I can't unfollow certain growers, and some followed growers always show that they have updated diaries when they don't. Mega stoned so hope that all makes sense. 👍
Hashy
Hashycommented7 hours ago
Thanks for keeping us all updated. I'm actually liking the new layout.
GrowDiaries
GrowDiariescommented7 hours ago
@Hashy Hold on there, bud! All your points are valid! We are working on resolving them! Thanks for letting us know!