Trail Forks sent out an email today saying that the Strava changes have basically made Strava impossible to use for their platform. They’re encouraging users to use direct sync methods from devices.
I would not be surprised if this kills a significant chunk of Trailfork’s user base and the trail data that was aggregated there.
Trailforks is owned and run by Outside now, so this is a real bad guy vs. bad guy battle. Let them fight!
Just trying to use the Sync to Strava button at the bottom of my workout as It has not uploaded to Strava. The button says “processing” but the ride isn’t appearing on Strava! Is that the Strava link now broken?
yep agreed.
One of the services I subscribed to which used Strava was one called Crickles. It was an analytical tool run by a couple of cardiologists in London and it looked at your Heart Rate data and ran it through some of their algorithms to detect abnormal heart rates. The aim of the site was to give advance warning of cardiac events (or faulty heart rate straps, or low batteries)
Despite appeals to Strava they have been cut off.
I honestly thought my dislike of the people running Strava couldn’t get any deeper, but it has.
They are evil
Really? They’ve disconnected it from their app? What an ignorant bunch they are. They wont be getting any more of my money.
Yep It was a free service run by a couple of guys who just wanted to help people
30 days have elapsed.
Is there a list of apps that have been killed off?
There is a chance Crickles will be coming back connected to Intervals.icu instead of Strava.
I hope so
I messaged them and suggested they get in touch with you
Ugh, when did Strava remove the ability to post a link/website in the title, description and comments? Well that’s annoying!
A few weeks ago. Super annoying when trying to promote races.
I’m in a weird situation where my financial company is offering me a free year of Strava Premium. I had strava, didn’t really use it much but deleted it to protest the API issue.
All that said, it’s free…
For someone that mostly rides indoors on TR and does some longer weekend rides. I use a garmin 1040, Fenix 6 on my outdoor rides. Is Strava Premium worth it (I know it’s free, but if the company are jerks why bother)
I would say if you like the product use it , business can’t make everyone happy.
I kinda dig the Recover app that you get access to with Strava Premium and I still think Strava’s route creator is the best one available so if you like those things, I’d say go for it.
Long time Crickles fan so excellent to hear!
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<cough< Start throwing your weight around too much then people will work around you and it’s you who’s diminished by your antics <cough<
I think I’m about done w/ Strava, before I break all my flow of data…has anyone used/tested this combo:
TR to Dropbox
Dropbox to Intervals.icu
Hammerhead to Intervals.icu
Hammerhead to TR
Or will that create duplicates because Intervals is pulling the Hammerhead data through TR?
My current setup is to push everything to Strava and have Intervals pickup all the data there. Calendar is being imported from the ICS export.
Yep, that’s exactly what I do. I deleted my Strava account a couple of months ago. Intervals.icu is my aggregate.
I use (and pay for) intervals.icu too, but just went to the free version of Strava since I had so many years of history there and for group rides.
Strava has updated their API agreement once again:
Sounds like accessing the API now requires developers to be Strava subscribers, which is… fine, I suppose. As long as Nate renews his subscription, I guess TrainerRoad is unaffected by all this.
Except maybe for this extremely vague clause, though:
Intermediary platform access restricted. Apps routing Strava data through third-party intermediary platforms are no longer supported. These platforms prevent us from verifying how athlete data is being accessed and used downstream, creating unacceptable security risks. Direct integrations are not impacted. If your app is one of the small number of apps affected, you will receive a separate email with next steps.
I have no idea what that means. Which apps route Strava data through intermediary platforms? What counts as an intermediary platform?