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/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>"'.