Strava updates from the API Agreement have a huge impact on the connectivity of all apps that use Strava to synchronize activities.
Post from strava at their community hub
DC Rainmaker created a video and post about the changes.
In short, we would have to hide all Strava activities from features such as Friend & Coaching features (features which are are basically planned for Runalyze – but not yet started). The activities would also not be able to be shared publicly. On your public athlete page, these activities would be completely hidden too.
We have a short conversation with Strava on Friday (22th november), which will certainly not bring much news, but will confirm all suspicions.
If you use Garmin, Coros, Wahoo, Suunto, Fitbit, Adidas/Runtastic, concept2, which are directly connected to Runalyze, then synchronize your activities with them. You will receive more data via our direct connections than via Strava.
We only added the Strava connection back then so that we could synchronize Zwift activities. Zwift announced this summer that they would be releasing an API. We have now re-established contact, so hopefully we will get access soon. As soon as we have access and can develop it, we will implement it with the highest priority.
We will also try to add other connections that do not yet have the highest priority. Unfortunately, some providers are not so open and do not make it easy to synchronize activities, so we cannot yet say who we will be able to add at the moment.
We will give you another update (via a blog post + newsletter) when we implement changes and how we work with the changes by Stravas API agreement.
Update #1:
After our call with Strava, we are only slightly more informed.
– We have to set all activities to “private” by default.
– We need to set all existing Strava activities to private once.
– We can’t offer a sync option that says Strava activities are set to “public” by default.
– It’s fine if the user can set individual activities to public. (manually)
– We can offer a tool where each individual activity is manually set to public.