Strava changes - great analysis by DC Rainmaker: "Today, Strava sold its segmented soul."

Strava is having post nuptial shutoff

Uhh wrote:

Today I deleted all the segments I created as it wouldn't even let me see my own past efforts.

I don't want to be reminded of something I can't see if I happen to click on the wrong button. See too many banners trying to get me to subscribe as it is.

Deleting all your segments? Seems kind of petty or at least a waste of time. And possibly a sign of a deeper psychological issue.

+1

I read the first two and skipped to the end to say this... it's 5 freaking dollars a month! If you use Strava, just subscribe and skip one caramel mocha grande latte a month.

$5/month is absolutely nothing to whine about. Stop being cheapskates.

fisky wrote:

I read the first two and skipped to the end to say this... it's 5 freaking dollars a month! If you use Strava, just subscribe and skip one caramel mocha grande latte a month.

My guess is that it will mostly be detrimental to collegiate-age and younger Strava users who don't have a credit card, and, in some cases, may not be old enough to have a bank account.

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

$5/month is absolutely nothing to whine about. Stop being cheapskates.

Or maybe - you guys could stop stepping in to defend the interests of a large company at every turn?

I don't give a sh!t whether strava lives or dies. I choose what to do with my money, and what to do with my words. Don't like that I'm not spending money AND whining? Log off, dork.

I just use Strava as a private training log so was disappointed that they restricted access to the "training log" feature. If Garmin improves their features, I may just switch to using that as my primary tool (it's in there anyway via my watch).

Although the segment restriction will motivate some users to pay the subscription, they really should restrict the social media features (following/followers/kudos) if they want to dramatically increase the subscription rate.

There seem to be many runners on Strava that primarily use it to brag to other runners and they would go crazy if others couldn't see their "epic" runs and given them kudos.

If you want to use it as a private training log, it's free. If you want to others to know how great of a runner you are, $$$.

It might be a waste of time, but it isn't a sign of a deeper psychological issue. Segments are the most popular feature of Strava and every single one was created by a user. So they are profiting on the labor of users and are now asking users to pay for the right to see efforts on their own segments. People may be annoyed to see popular segments gone, but refusing to let Strava profit off my efforts isn't a deeper psychological issue

Runner10287 wrote:

Deleting all your segments? Seems kind of petty or at least a waste of time. And possibly a sign of a deeper psychological issue.

Uhh wrote:

Today I deleted all the segments I created as it wouldn't even let me see my own past efforts.

I don't want to be reminded of something I can't see if I happen to click on the wrong button. See too many banners trying to get me to subscribe as it is.

If other users actually care about the segments, someone will remake them. If not, Strava is better off for having fewer garbage segments.

You do you, but Strava doesn't give a damn.

knox harrington wrote:

Uhh wrote:

Today I deleted all the segments I created as it wouldn't even let me see my own past efforts.

I don't want to be reminded of something I can't see if I happen to click on the wrong button. See too many banners trying to get me to subscribe as it is.

If other users actually care about the segments, someone will remake them.

Exactly, the ones that are really important to me (hill climbs) I know the start and end points very precisely so I'll do it myself.