Sick of the incessant Strava updates

Just me?

Gone mad today, pinging notifications everytime one of my follows posts an activity.

Settings look fine…

Maybe the calm before all the posts from folk saying their notifications have fallen silent due to the upcoming 3rd party data sharing (or lack of) updates.

Yeah I got that, an invitation to give kudos to each of half a dozen people all doing bloody Zwift squiggles…

Easy enough to ignore though, I guess I’ve set it not to buzz my phone every time.

Not sure what they have done, but I just went into the push notifications settings and have hopefully turned it off.

DickBarton

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Maybe the calm before all the posts from folk saying their notifications have fallen silent due to the upcoming 3rd party data sharing (or lack of) updates.

Seems like another case of Strava deliberately pissing off their users (AGAIN!):

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/11/stravas-changes-to-kill-off-apps.html

Thought this was going to be about “local legend” update emails

Will have a proper read of the API stuff, but I pretty much only use it to keep in touch with a few folk I don’t see very often…that said I’m sure there’s probably something syncing with something else that I’ve forgotten about.

Tbh I’d be happy to ditch it if it were not for the ‘social’ side.

Great opportunity for  the likes of Garmin and Wahoo to cut out the middleman by improving their analytics and socials so that more people are just content to look at their rides on Connect etc, alongside providing connectivity for third-party apps.

Strava seems to take quite a high-handed approach to third-party apps, but in the end they are just an app themselves, and they can’t  just assume people will stick with them if there is another way to do the things they want.

Obviously the leaderboards are the killer feature, but I increasingly don’t bother looking at segment times (mainly because I’ve been bloody slow for the last couple of years), so won’t be bothering to renew the paid version next year. The app feels a bit stale to me, the routeplanning bit is mediocre, and the endless pointless notifications are irritating.

Great opportunity for  the likes of Garmin and Wahoo to cut out the middleman by improving their analytics and socials

Sounds good but Strava’s USP is that it is independent of the recording device so it gives the best social experience.  To replicate this someone like Garmin would have to expand their app to seamlessly accept input from non Garmin devices- as Strava does now.  Doesn’t sound very likely.

I’m not sure, I think a decent app experience that allowed uploads from phones as well as proprietary devices would drive sales of those devices. But that relies on Garmin etc being bothered. At the moment their app is limited because Strava is so dominant.