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I canceled my Strava premium membership today. It kept getting more expensive, and the new features mostly didn’t seem worth it.
The final straw was the recent API Agreement changes prohibiting showing “Strava data” to anyone else and “processing” data.
Third-party apps are no longer able to display your Strava activity data on their surfaces to other users.
I’ve long had “integrate with Strava” on the backburner for my website, but now I think I just need to host my activities myself. This feels a lot like when Twitter clamped down on their API.
As promised early last month when I first surveyed the initial carnage in the Colorado segment competition, I would return back to the scene of stupidity once complete.
I appreciate DC Rainmaker summing up the Strava Chipotle challenge drama.
I made some modest running goals for the year, the most of ambitious of which: STAY HEALTHY.
However, for the folks in Denver, it began as all-out war on Day 1, and has escalated quickly since then.
I’ve seen a few friends on Strava join these Chipotle challenges, but I didn’t look closer since there aren’t any challenge segments in Atlanta. But the winners get free Chipotle for a year???? DC Rainmaker’s recap of the Denver drama is good fun.