Its been over a month. Right when they started making massive changes.
Did everything to try and fix it: The uninstall app and reinstall, purge apple health connections then resync. Unless you do workouts with their iOS app, it won’t sync with Apple Health. Strava can sync with TR, my Wahoo head unit, zwift no problem but that data won’t be relayed to Apple Health.
And given Strava’s track record of never addressing IT support, i’m just done with it. I’d rather spend the money on something else
I don’t think so. Did an outside ride today and Strava is no longer updating the leaderboards (overall, today, friends) with my new pr times. Been 4 hours since upload, so I doubt it’s due to server lag.
Yeah I think they’ve already started putting stuff behind the premium paywall but they have a 60 day free trial for Summit. You have to enter your Credit Card info for the trial but If you start it and then immediately cancel you will remain on summit until the trial period is over and you won’t be autocharged at the end.
For anyone who has seen my coding nerds thread (mostly a vanity topic about my own PMC web app development lol), maybe I ought to try and cook up the next big cycling social app. I won’t lie I’ve actually starting looking at integrating social networking into django lol
The deal was that I upload my runs/rides to their service, and they give me segment leaderboards. If they aren’t holding up their end of the bargain, I’m not going to just keep paying them with free data. I’ve just un-synched my garmin and TR data from their service.
I represent a slightly different type of customer. I’ve been paying them for years without really ever using any of the premium features. I was actually going to stop paying them this year because of this, but not anymore. At least now I will get getting something useful for my dollars. So, their strategy has at least worked on me, and possibly other customers like me.
Can you attach permissions to TP and will it go cross platform? I have a Garmin F6X but saw apple health there so not sure it if would work to TR that way.
I didn’t pay for Strava during winter since I was riding indoors 99% of the time. But then I re-evaluated their service and payed for a full year and I plan on continuing so in the future as well. Even though I don’t use their service for data-evaluation it’s still nice to have it.
Its is “free” if you provide a CC and cancel within 60 days.
So not really free.
This is SPOT ON. Haha!!
Yeah, even for summit. Been on that since the beginning.
I don’t know Garmin connect but what you describe is basically my experience. Like the Polar flow ecosystem which keeps things under extreme lock and key (which is a real shame since that is probably the best activity app i’ve used beyond apple health)
If I upload the file directly to strava it doesn’t forward either. It forwards any data from my apple watch or iphone so long as it was made with the Strava app.
I mean, in the grand scheme of things this is a minor “nuisance” in that I could always just upload the data to apple health with the healthfit app. That works perfect and fine.
But since I used Strava primarily to sync such data, that use case is out. And since I ride mostly indoors and non competitively…I have very limited use for strava at this point.
Really don’t know the Garmin ecosystem so I can’t comment on that sorry.
But if everyone here could go and help request for a direct apple health feature for TR, I’d be super happy
Edit: The request I made is here
TR will sync direct to TP
Yup…thinking of spending my Strava money on that tbh.
I’m speculating that Strava lost a chunk of funding and had to urgently look at how to fund their most expensive feature(s). Hence why they’ve given zero notice to devs about the API changes. I can’t think of any other reason why they’d give their API consumers zero notice.
I’ve become more ambivalent towards Strava over the past few years, but would definitely not want to see them go out of business.
MSN Messenger.
Polaroid.
Toys R Us.
Blockbuster.
RCA.
Etc.
I rode my bike pre-strava and I’ll ride it post-strava. Life goes on.
Although…
MSN Messenger → we have other types of messanger like fb and google.
Polaroid → we have our cellphones
Toys R Us → Amazon
Blockbuster → Netflix
Maybe in the future:
Strava → TR
Hard to imagine because if Strava disappeared tomorrow it would be missed. Nothing to replace it at the present, at least in my corner of the world.
Some other company will replace it.
For free? Probably not…
