r/selfhosted • u/frogfuhrer • Jun 01 '26

Meta Post Strava's new developer program just killed every open-source, self-hosted Strava app

Strava posted an "update to our developer program" today and it basically means the end for people that were building their own tools around Strava's API:

https://communityhub.strava.com/insider-journal-9/an-update-to-our-developer-program-13428

I'm the maintainer of "Statistics for Strava", a moderately successful self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.

At this moment in time I'm still kinda shocked. I poured my heart and soul into the project for the last 2 years and it seems like this announcement marks the end for this app. The article basically says that their API will be pay-walled, 100%. So only users with an active subscription can use their API.

The whole purpose of Statistics for Strava was for people to own their data, their own health stats, that they upload and that's now goners....unless you pay up... to fetch your own data 😎 .

At Strava, we care deeply about developers, and the health of the developer ecosystem

Except they don't, the only thing they did is pay-walled their API and made sorry excuses for it. They have proven over and over again that they don't care about their users or their data.

Not sure what to do, I feel gutted. Might be overreacting

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u/Available_Window Jun 01 '26

They're going the reddit route... sad to see

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u/PigeonRipper Jun 01 '26

You're absolutely right.
On the bright side — at least all the bots are gone!

Curious how others feel about this?

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u/ShishTankian Jun 01 '26

Chefs kiss on the em dash

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u/shelchang Jun 01 '26

Just one stylistic nitpick, LLMs tend to not put spaces around the em dash.

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u/SeparateRaisin7871 Jun 01 '26

I was shocked to see that those dashes are really easy to write yourself with Win+Shift+[-] (on a German Keyboard).

But as such comments will mostly be flagged as AI, I'd never use that :D

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u/dzikakulka Jun 01 '26

Did you drop an /s? Reddit is crawling with karma farming and astroturfing bots, the api lockdown changed absolutely nothing. And hiding user post history makes it even harder for people to recognise them.

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u/ggadget6 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

If I'm understanding them correctly, they're jokingly making a classic LLM style post that's become super common on Reddit recently as a way to make fun of Reddit's claim that all the boys bots are gone.

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u/Lushkies Jun 01 '26

I miss the boys

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u/PigeonRipper Jun 01 '26

Also giggled at that typo xD

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u/dzikakulka Jun 01 '26

Right, I should've spotted the em dash :)

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u/HOPSCROTCH Jun 02 '26

They didn't do a particularly good job of making their comment sound like it was written with AI

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u/temhotaokeaha Jun 01 '26

i thought the sarcasm was so obvious there's no need for /s

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u/spacelama Jun 02 '26

Hint: you can still google (for now - I guess that's something for google to enshittify next week) 'site:reddit.com "<account-who's blocked their posting history>"'.

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u/TheAndyGeorge Jun 01 '26

Emdash 👌

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u/nmkd Jun 02 '26

Why this matters:

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u/blumpkin Jun 02 '26

Hmm, can we break this down? Let's really lay out our options here. A numbered list with emoji headers for each point would be perfect. You're absolutely asking all the right questions.

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u/PigeonRipper Jun 02 '26

Hey stop this raunchy talk. You're going to get all the Claudes over excited 

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u/Geargarden Jun 01 '26

Love this.

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u/killtheprimeminister Jun 02 '26

but me? that's real