Yes, TR sent an email and was extremely upfront about the pricing changes. Not sure how you could have missed it. @Nate_Pearson has been a model of how to do it
Not currently subscribed, mentioned it because I had seen this:
Not hard to do in the SF Bay Area. A sandwich, a side and a drink does it pretty easy these days. Eating out is on the entertainment list for the budget now lol
good thing I have a Japanese account…
Just cancelled my subscription, so the annual billing doesn’t auto renew in 6 months.
For me, the route planning is now not as good as Garmin. I recently took contract work in a new town, and my first port of call was actually Garmin, to find some routes. I’d rather save the annual fee and then every few years buy a new Garmin.
I almost always make my own food, but if I went in a shop and they wanted $25 for a sandwich and some chips, I’d walk out.
So whats the plan, everyone now cancel strava and make the shut down? Then well all be, remember strava, that was kinda cool, wish we didnt run them out of town.
So we should keep rewarding bad behavior with our $ then?
I get your point but I will make do with other options if they ultimately fail. And if this is the straw that breaks the camel back, that’s on Strava, not us.
Agreed. It would be unfortunate if they failed, but that’s not on us. Strava chooses how to run their business, how they want to make money, the features, the direction of the platform, communication. We choose where to spend our money, be it because we want to just support the platform or because we see value in what paying gives us. If we don’t see value then it’s up to Strava to either show us the value, or to actually provide it. If they can’t do that - it’s not our fault.
I really dont know what the best plan would be, although it does appear that they realized they screwed up. I agree secret price increases should not be rewarded, but also it sure would suck if they died due to this.
I read somewhere that Brazil subsidises Strava premium memberships for its citizens which is why they are cheaper. I think you have to have a Brazilian bank card to get that rate.
I think you meant being called out publicly for being deceptive and are now trying to save face to avoid mass exodus.
It would be interesting to me to know how much they would have to charge each user per year to be successful and happily profitable.
$15?
$25?
Have a look at PlotaRoute . Loads of features for route planning , although I only use it for road biking, fraction of the price for an annual membership compared to other route planners out there.
Lol. Everyone would find something else.
Strava has missed some opportunities with acquisitions. Imagine if they had grabbed Bikereg instead of outside getting it. And then if they could acquire or match the features of Ridewithgps. Right now you see promoters share courses with Ridewithgps, have sign up on Bikereg (the Ticketmaster of athletics) and the participants share the activity afterward on strava. Could all be one platform. And still could, if RideewithGPS got more social and combined with webscorer.
Plus Intervals.icu for analytics and Veloviewer. Veloviewer integrated with a route creation tool would be awesome to preview the route before riding it or signing up for an event
I’ve given Strava several years to add features. I went premium after the founders took over control again. Progress was slow and there were several times we actually lost features (e. g. Bluetooth sensor support). Strava’s support has always been less than helpful. Its help pages are abysmal. I had to learn on this forum that you actually can plan group rides with Strava, it just isn’t documented and you can only do it in a very narrow set of circumstances.
From memory, it only “implemented one feature” I requested (not saying I was the only one), and that was to hide initial and final destinations by default. So they only had to change a default, the feature had already been implemented. Rather than implementing many features, I just remember that features were moved behind their paywall.
The only big feature I can think of off the top of my head is their route planner. It works well-ish. I found there were too few distance options and that it sometimes would create routes that weren’t very enjoyable (too many traffic lights, etc.).
Overall, Strava is not a great product, not even a good one. If it was clear they were making progress, then I’d be inclined to stay around and do my small share to finance their efforts. But they have flatlined. I have given up on them. I’ll still use the free version. Strava is ripe for competition. If companies like Wahoo or Garmin — especially Garmin — would make their platform device-agnostic, we’d probably have an instakill here.
Anytime a company raises prices, many people reevaluate whether that price is worth it. Sure in this case people are also annoyed about Strava’s communication on the increase.
Norway, where I live, is not even on the list. Guess we gat Strava for free 