gary p wrote:
The more I think about it, the more I believe the lead is being buried. Strava putting Segments details behind a paywall is the sexy headline, but the issue that might really cause people pain, depending how they handle it, is moving Training Log to the subscription plan. 
I've had a chance to go in and poke around on the updated free desktop/browser site. The "Training Log" link is blacked out, indicating it's a subscription-only feature. However, access remains for "My Activities," which you can still sort by Date, Title, time, Distance, or Elevation; ascending or descending. You can search for any activity (or activities) by keyword, and you can limit your search to a particular Sport (default is "All Sport Types"). Each Activity Title is a hotlink to the actual Activity page.
Also, the "Training Calendar" is still available, where total cumulative training hours, miles, and activity counts for all sports combined can be seen by year and by month. In the month view, there are also hot links back to the actual activities. The snazzy bar graphs showing training miles by week (annual page) or day (monthly page) are still there, too.
What's missing are the weekly totals that are in Training Log, and the ability to see any cumulative training hours and/or mileage segregated by Sport, although you can get some of the latter in the "My Stats" area of your profile.
So, it's a bit less useful than it used to be, but it's not like they completely blocked you from accessing your history. You can still see all your individual workouts sequenced in various ways, as well as some high-level aggregate data by month and year. Seems satisfactory for free-ware, especially if you consider it in the context of everything else they are giving away with the free service. Now that I've seen what's still available for free, I do not feel hard-done by the change. If I had one wish, it would be the ability to set a date range for the "My Activities" list. But, as the old saying goes "Beggars can't be choosers."
TL;DR-They didn't go full A-hole the workout history. Pay-walling "Training Log" is not the disaster I feared it might be. You can still see your stuff.
As for the new free Segments page, I'm inclined to agree with jflan that the it seems far less likely to "hook" a new rider than the old one. Not being able to see where you stand relative to any of your friends, or see how your effort compares to past efforts (other than your current ET vs your PB ET), reduces the immediate-interest factor considerably. As my interest in Segments is not what it once was, I'm personally not that chapped about the Segments update. But I'm honestly not sure how engaged I would have stayed with Strava at the beginning had the free Segments page looked like it does now. I might still be happily chugging along on RideWithGPS.
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