Road Cycling

[grudas]

I just cancelled my auto-renewal. They are fundamentally a company that runs completely from user data and refusing to pass that through to other third parties and giving such short notice is just a dick move. Most people only use them for tracking segments and general ride data. I don't use it for analysis other than seeing if I go any faster on segments and to follow a few mates. I could stomach the price when they weren't behaving like dicks but I think they might find themselves losing quite a few customers over this.

that's my logic too, its my data, let me do what I want with it and if I feel like using some external app to show it in a different manner then surely I should be allowed to? my view is this, they're trying to remove it so they can offer it as a premium feature, problem is, they do not roll out features quickly or if they do they're not that great.

the "ai" block is hilarious. they're clearly trying to push the rubbish ai summary and don't want anyone else doing it better than they are.

 

[fez]

I wonder if this is some big backlash over GDPR issues that someone has flagged and they've gone mental to compensate?

It might be but the sensible solution to that is to just lock it down a little.

that's my logic too, its my data, let me do what I want with it and if I feel like using some external app to show it in a different manner then surely I should be allowed to? my view is this, they're trying to remove it so they can offer it as a premium feature, problem is, they do not roll out features quickly or if they do they're not that great.

the "ai" block is hilarious. they're clearly trying to push the rubbish ai summary and don't want anyone else doing it better than they are.

I imagine they are trying to get more funding hence "AI" but yeah, they are clearly trying to capitalise on their massive user base and hope that by kicking out all their adjacent competitors who do analysis much better than them, people will use their version. Issue is that plenty of people will just end up uploading their fit data to places like intervals.icu directly or another platform will come in and happily take their customers.

I think Strava has some good things. I really like their route planning, heat maps etc but if you behave like pricks I will find someone else to get that information from.

 

[Trifid]

Yeah, after watching DC's Strava video, I watched the first couple of minutes of this -

I guess he's trying to do a Clarkson's Farm... but I lost interest about 2 mins in.

I'm going to give it a go, even if it did have a bit* of a 'it's tough owning a multi-million £ estate' to it. (* OK it was more then a bit!)

Interesting, Strava really is doing its best to make sure my auto renewal stays off. I don’t know why they fight against their user base so much? Veloviewer, intervals.icu, riduck etc would probably be non compliant after these changes. Silly Strava.

What they have done is kill off the segment where strava is the central workout repository that feeds your activities to other platforms. I would laugh if Apple, Garmin and Wahoo respond in kind, and to be honest I think they should even if we all lose out because of it. Hopefully they back down from this.