whiskywheels wrote:There's a number of posts here from ST3 users expressing concern about continued support and availability of this excellent program.
I thought I'd start a new thread and see what comments we get from admin and other users. I've been using this for 12 years myself.
FredericB wrote:I've been using it for 5 years (I explain in details how I use it and which plugins I use here) and I'm also sad that it is being abandoned more and more every year.
FredericB wrote:I believe they are trying to move their user to their .mobi platform which I understand as "the cloud" seems to be the trend nowadays. Personally, I want my data offline and not rely on a service that can be down anytime (we've seen it these past days with Movescount!) or that can be hacked.
FredericB wrote:I have scouted the different options and either GoldenCheetah or MyTourBook seems like viable options that are similar and very well and often maintained (I list the major alternatives here) but haven't made the move yet.
FredericB wrote:I know this is most of ST user's sword of Damocles and it's doomed to happen to everyone of us at some point, desktop app users.
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FredericB wrote:admin wrote:
I definitely agree, SportTracks has really few competitors, hence the aim of this thread : Is it really utopic to hope for a future of the ST desktop app ? If not, please put it open-source and let the people that are interested in it to make it better. Sure, not everyone is willing to dedicate time to what you call the "learning" curve but don't let us in standing water where ST is left dead and stale.
OR, increase the price to support the funding of an actual development of ST (4?) and that way you can cover 2 types of customers, the one that want to use .mobi and the ones like us that want to continue to enjoy a powerful and unique desktop app.
admin wrote:It may seem like updates are infrequent because of this - that just shows you how mature and stable the core software is.
pucko wrote:It is not close to the ST3 with all the available plugins.
admin wrote:pucko wrote:It is not close to the ST3 with all the available plugins.
I wonder what you miss, since the online SportTracks plaform has far exceeded most of the features in ST3 for years, including the most popular plugins integrated into the system, and many things never possible in ST3.
admin wrote:pucko wrote:It is not close to the ST3 with all the available plugins.
I wonder what you miss, since the online SportTracks plaform has far exceeded most of the features in ST3 for years, including the most popular plugins integrated into the system, and many things never possible in ST3.
admin wrote:SportTracks has had training load modeling for four years I believe - it was definitely one of the early features. I'm really surprised Strava doesn't offer training load? Seems like such a basic feature in 2018. It further shows how their focus is really on the social/competitive segment aspect, rather than performance metrics.
Of course we offer training load integrated into your planning calendar, estimation for planned workouts, you can even set effort goals and track to completion with email updates, see your training load next to your workout volume load or health metrics in the same view, estimate future training load coming up to a race, show historical race prep training load, to name a few things off the top of my head.
Why have a suffer score if you're not going to offer a training load model?
ACree wrote:How about filtering activities by location, or by equipment used. Both things I do, both easy in ST3, and not possible in .mobi. For that matter, even basic things, like keeping column headers at the top of the page when scrolling, are lacking in .mobi.
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