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Re:Strava hikes monthly subscription price by more than 25 p... by aliqot on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:17PM (#34371670)
> I think most every consumer looks at it like they look at every other recurring service

This may not address your comment directly, but I can feel a strawman forming that I'd like to get ahead of for others.

Fitness and entertainment are not comparable. If you're into fitness, you're in 100%, especially so at the competitive level. If you're an entertainment person, don't compare it to your Netflix bill, compare it to your grocery bill. Suddenly it makes sense.

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Re:Strava hikes monthly subscription price by more than 25 p... by operatingthetan on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:20PM (#34371729)
Nobody considers Strava's training tools 'serious.' It's a social network for training. The premium tools all have better versions on other platforms like Training Peaks, Xert, TrainerRoad etc. that literally every athelete uses instead. No athlete is sharing their training data with their coach on Strava, so given that I think comparisons to entertainment are fair.

>but I can feel a strawman forming

Let's address fallacies as they happen instead of before they do, okay? I find this uncharitable.

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Re:Strava hikes monthly subscription price by more than 25 p... by kmonsen on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:09PM (#34373900)
Or even Garmin connect, I was looking for a coach and most wanted to use some sort of training peaks/garmin combo.

They were actually, please don't use Strava. You will not follow the training plan and just exhaust yourself to set a PR when I want you to be slow and consistent instead.

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Re:Strava hikes monthly subscription price by more than 25 p... by operatingthetan on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:16PM (#34373976)
I had a friend who did that exact thing. Was a decent cat 2 or 3 at that point but was constantly chasing KOMs and burned themselves out hard.
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Re:Strava hikes monthly subscription price by more than 25 p... by Fordec on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:22PM (#34371758)
Well my Netflix and UberEats bills are $0 and if a subscription service is to be compared to a basic human need as food itself, that's a bit of a complete misunderstanding of a general humans hierarchy of needs. That applies to any entertainment service.
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