I am there at least till July 2025 when my annual sub ends.
Not a social thing or because of analyticals or segments and koms. Just like to see the year totals and create a route from time to time but I guess I can really get without it. 
I’ve had Strava since 2013 and have never paid them a penny. I’ve done a few of their free trials of Premium and never felt remotely enticed to pay for it, which kind of says a lot about their product IMO. The route creation tool interested me the most, but I was really underwhelmed and even annoyed at times with its functionality. I enjoy the social aspect and seeing friend’s rides, browsing segments, etc. Until they put some of those core functions behind a paywall, I will never have a reason to give them any money. That being said, I’m quite happy with the free product I’ve received for many years 
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Strava deleted my soft spot for the route-making, social data hub it was. In response i deleted my account. Don’t know if i will miss it… As a garmin owner (fenix+ edge) who’s winter go-to’s are Zwift and Trainerroad, i’ll probably only miss the routes parts during the summer. There are alternatives for that. But the whole thing is a pretty shittie for anyone who’s using strava relaint tech or platforms. At the least Strava could provide a paid option for being the data hub.
They are perfectly free to change how they do business. But removing this functionality / permission is dumb. They at least could have said that’s a paid feature since it costs them money to run.
This feels almost as dumb as saying they are pivoting to be a recipe sharing site instead of being focused on exercise. Sure, it’s their prerogative, but it’s a good way to lose a large portion of your users. And it makes no business sense. Just like killing (by TOS if not by technical means) most popular third party integration.
I requested mine yesterday and it arrived inside of an hour.
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To answer the original question:
Almost everyone I know IRL who bikes regularly is still using Strava. I also don’t know of anyone IRL who has cancelled recently.
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On twitter/X it was very quiet too, no more than 100 tweets about strava’s API.
I’ve resubscribed already btw after I demanded a refund and they just gave it to me (without even having to go through the necessary steps outlined in the procedure for getting a refund).
This was a big FU by their Strava’s communication department
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Don’t really understand what’s going on and is it the same for Europe as America?
All I want is my rides and TR workouts to sync on Strava and show me my stats, is anything changing in this regard?
Things are in flux right now as Strava backpedals some of these changes and has conversations with various platforms, but it’s likely that TrainerRoad may not be able to pull your outside rides and workouts from Strava into TrainerRoad in the future, and if that happens you’ll have to set up direct integration from Garmin, Wahoo, and/or Zwift to get those activities into TrainerRoad (the latter two are being worked on and available soon-ish).
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I don’t ride with power outside currently so I think my outside rides are pretty pointless anyway being pulled into TR
Then you probably have nothing to worry about.
I’m not sure that is true. TR can run an estimated TSS for outside rides lacking power. And it sounds like they potentially leverage even HR at least (maybe more?) in reviewing that info WRT to updating your plan & workout suggestions via AT analysis. Any/all of that would seem to be a potential violation of the new terms, but that is my guess.
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Took about 30 mins
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This is me. A few kudos and a yearly mileage stat was all I ever cared about. For a couple of years I was analyzing leader boards and when they cut off that feature to the free tier, I cared for about it for a week. And if I wasn’t top 10 then I didn’t care if I was 58th or top ten in men 50+ or whatever.
It’s like Strava never realized that only the top few percentage of cyclists compete for leaderboards. It’s not enough riders to move the needle on their financial bottom line. Strava could have easily automated the detection of e-bike rides or bikes on top of cars taking KOMs but they made the community police it. Surely an algorithm or AI could easily see 99.9% of faulty rides.
If Strava had ever included decent training plans (how hard can that be?) I might have paid five years ago. If they had created a club hub with messaging that would have been great (Team Reach beat them to it now). I would have paid $20/year for club messaging. They could have rolled it into dues and it would have been invisible. Strava could have been the hub for event payments and club dues but they didn’t build that business. Outside bought that business.
Strava could have went into e-commerce with their giant installed base to market to. Trainers, HR monitors, whatever - it could have been a sizeable business. They could have built a classified section and competed with ebay.
I mean, they’ve passed over so many opportunities in the space and squandered so much investment money that you wonder what they have been doing. The platform looks essentially the same as it did 5 or 10 years ago and they let known bugs live on forever.
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Just realized they yanked hr data for non paid members too, wow…
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I should add I’m a EU citizen where GDPR applies (including the new stuff this year)
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Yeah. Still on it as it’s still working for my purposed, which is an activity repository and nexus for data exchange between apps. When/if that actually ceases, then I’ll reevaluate.
I don’t see that. Still shows up for me.
I just renewed for another year. I qualify for student pricing through taking the occasional community college class so it’s only $40 instead of $80. I still like Strava’s UI and being able to see my own history on segments which is behind the paywall. We’ll see how things shake out in the next year.
