The maintenance thing is rather annoying. There's suspension maintenance based entirely on hours, so please tell me how many miles I have on my MTB, I don't care about miles as much.
Thinking about this more, yes the removed features is what bothers me. Not the fact that I no longer have access to them, but as a poor business decision. Any new user won't see what those features are, so they won't care about them. We all know about the leaderboards, but if none of us upgrade to Summit or whatever for the next 6 months, we'll forget about that and not care to pay to upgrade.
They updated the routing features. That's great, but I have no way of testing them to try them out. So either I can use the free RidewithGPS or whatever (which I do now) or pay to try out the Strava one, which may be better. Or maybe not.
I don't know what they have or not tried, but their advertising seems to be minimal. I don't scroll through the feed and see as many ads as say Instagram has. There's plenty of advertisement tie ins to get badges tied to companies but obviously those aren't buying business jets.
My basic point is that while I agree Strava needs to make money, and they do provide services, they don't do a good job of pointing out WHY you should really pay to have features that aren't on the basic plan.
Thinking about this more, yes the removed features is what bothers me. Not the fact that I no longer have access to them, but as a poor business decision. Any new user won't see what those features are, so they won't care about them. We all know about the leaderboards, but if none of us upgrade to Summit or whatever for the next 6 months, we'll forget about that and not care to pay to upgrade.
They updated the routing features. That's great, but I have no way of testing them to try them out. So either I can use the free RidewithGPS or whatever (which I do now) or pay to try out the Strava one, which may be better. Or maybe not.
I don't know what they have or not tried, but their advertising seems to be minimal. I don't scroll through the feed and see as many ads as say Instagram has. There's plenty of advertisement tie ins to get badges tied to companies but obviously those aren't buying business jets.
My basic point is that while I agree Strava needs to make money, and they do provide services, they don't do a good job of pointing out WHY you should really pay to have features that aren't on the basic plan.
