Interesting. I don’t want to derail this thread, but I do have that turned on, but frequently was told “Garmin never sent me the email” until I started manually opening it before each ride.
400ish employees is not exactly a huge company…
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Or buy a Garmin Edge and get Connect for free. It’s not very social, but who cares. It has GRAPHS!! 
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…if you don’t give it any information about the actual price increase.
To be honest, I have met quite a few people that don’t seem to be able to answer a simple direct question. All you get is this sort of waffle.
You’ve met my managers at work 
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Honestly chat GPT does a better job
Dear valued Strava members,
We apologize for the recent price increase and for not communicating the change effectively. We understand that this may have caused inconvenience and disappointment for some of our members.
We want to assure you that the price increase was necessary for us to continue improving and expanding our platform and services. However, we realize that we could have handled the communication of this change better and for that, we apologize.
We value your feedback and would like to invite you to reach out to us with any concerns or questions you may have. We are committed to providing you with the best experience possible and would like to work together to find a solution that works for you.
Thank you for being a part of the Strava community.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
Team Strava
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Me either 
they had to drop some kind of update news , so they don’t lose any more subscribers.
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If the user requests it be deleted, or if the user turns off the sync, or if the third party decides to stop pulling future data, or if Strava decides to stop you using the API. The first is sensible; the other three not so much.
FATMAP is actually pretty cool if you hike or ski.
Since they killed it, I’m wondering if they could build something like “Relive” with FATMAP functionality, along with the obvious route building benefits.
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Started recently. I have a bunch of weekly/monthly goals and appreciate most of the updates.
Yes and 
I did a ride yesterday that did not populate to Garmin Connect an hour later. So I checked where Connect was getting the data, and it’s Strava. So did Strava stop feeding data to Connect, or is this a ‘hiccup’.
Too early to tell, but incredibly ominous if they are either dropping that ‘feature’ for free class members, or if the are doing it to punish people that have commented on their huge misstep.
Is it the former? I checked, and they still have Connect as a destination to push data, but is the later then more possible? Stay tuned?
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I got a bunch last week before my sub expired, and many of them made absolutely no sense. ‘You have gone more than half way to your weekly goal’, and yet I hadn’t. Weird. And getting other nonsensical notifications too. Um, off a little, and unnecessary… 
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They did you a favor by making you aware that you should download to Garmin Connect first and then have GC push to Strava.
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I thought I had it setup bidirectional, but apparently not. But good idea. So is Strava going to stop allowing free users to download their rides? If it is punishment, they sure have a strange way of showing they need users, especially ‘punished’ free users. But let’s see what happens on the next ride today.
I thought Zwift pushed to both…
Just checked, and it is set to push to both Strava and Connect. Hmm…
Oh it’s an inside ride and that might be different if using a service. I always just ride rollers and so it goes GC to Strava and I forgot this is different if you’re recording with zwift or TR. advice stands though for outside rides.
Yes, now that I pay attention there are too many ‘keep going!’ messages that I was ignoring. Just like ignoring my Apple Watch some mornings when it tells me I’m behind on closing rings compared to normal.
These are the only ones that catch my eye:
Well, I don’t want to tempt fate and start juggling things and have dropped rides. My wife likes to tease me that I ‘ride for others’ and am so concerned about not getting credit, but it’s feeding the data into the whole ‘How are you doing’ idea, and being able to track what I’m doing and seeing if it is helping me out-ride the reaper. I dropped most of my followers on Strava, and still can’t figure out how ‘social’ Connect is/isn’t, and really don’t care. I found I was getting miffed at followers not dispensing with the Kudos and that’s not why I ride. Or not supposed to be why I ride.
But still, back to the data. It is important, and not having it traverse the Matrix and end up in places it’s supposed to be is distressing. Thinking that MY data could be embargoed or locked by some provider is obnoxious to me, but I also realize that they likely have every right to do it. How that is possible is just astounding, but that’s ‘the future’ I guess.
It was really odd that I requested MY data from Strava, and never got an email saying it was available. I guess I can try to get it from Connect. I like the German policy that my data is MY DATA, and if I want it gone, I can, but they protect it on my behalf. Seems to change the whole relationship for the better. Whatever… So happy my wife can tease me about this… 