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09-12-2020, 08:18 PM #76
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09-12-2020, 08:31 PM #77
You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
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09-13-2020, 05:34 AM #78
OT.
I admin three areas here in Vermont and want to admin a fourth that has really fucked up mapping and the only real way to fix it is to delete some of the stuff and basically start over again. Who do I contact to ask for this? For the other areas I was reached out to, and when I message that account I get no response.
Even though I got free pro, I still payed them. I use it so much when I am working remotely that it just makes sense.
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09-13-2020, 06:47 AM #79
^ Who set you up as an admin? They can make u admin of anywhere and that next level can delete trails also. I'm the only admin for a few areas and I would not be able to add you. You'd have to go thru the guy who set me up.
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09-13-2020, 08:59 AM #80
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09-13-2020, 11:33 AM #81
If you stick with the free version, you set it the first time you open the app, and you can set it to anywhere you want.
Maybe. Or maybe it's tied to your user account.
I can just see @trustfund99 pulling up in their $50k sprinter, with their $5k bike, pulling out their $1k phone to reinstall the app so they can avoid paying $0.05 per day.
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09-13-2020, 12:51 PM #82
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09-13-2020, 06:53 PM #83
And he's starting a thread on pinkbike right now!
I'm in the I like buckets of Rainier camp, so I don't mind supporting an app that I use, but don't need. But I do wonder if they've overplayed their hand a little. The casual rider with kids that keep outgrowing and breaking everything is (rightly) watching the pennies. The well-networked rider just messages their local friends before drifting into town.
And are people going to start withholding data?
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09-14-2020, 09:52 AM #84Registered User
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I don't use it all that often but paid for it anyway so that when I want it I'll have it available. I've been playing with it on the computer and found layers I didn't know were there so I may find myself using it more often. Ehh, whatever, for $18/yr it won't hurt.
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09-14-2020, 03:33 PM #85Registered User
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honestly, Im going to pay for the first year as payback for the handful of times the free app has gotten myself unlost. After the first year though, IDK. I pretty much know the lay of the land at all the good riding spots within a 2 hour drive of me (so i can get unlost easily), and the backcountry rides where i could get lost are typically easy enough to navigate as they arent dense trail networks and I can bring a paper map.
IDK, i think it would be a better model to let me activate the mobile app for $2/day when i need it and then shut it down the rest of the time and not pay. Would probably work out to less than $10/yr for me though. That said, it would be really helpful if the backcountry skiing functionality ever became as useful as the bike trail data.
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09-15-2020, 07:17 AM #86
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09-15-2020, 07:36 AM #87
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09-15-2020, 08:15 AM #88
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09-15-2020, 08:16 AM #89
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09-15-2020, 08:29 AM #90
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09-15-2020, 08:54 AM #91
The old tech model of “let’s give customers this product for free, don’t worry we’ll figure out a way to monetize it later...” is dying.
These apps take a lot of money to develop and maintain.
There are two options now.
You are either paying for their service.
Or
They are selling your data to advertisers.
Trailforks is an app I’ll happily pay for... we need less advertisements on these little screens in front of our faces....
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09-15-2020, 09:40 AM #92
I was just informed. You can qualify for free if you have enough points also. This is a good thing imo.
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09-15-2020, 11:29 AM #93
Good deal on the free account for major contributors. I’d heard they would probably do that so I’m glad to see it. I’m an admin but all volunteers burn out eventually. I have over 13K points from adding content over the years, so that should cover me. Not that I mind paying for a service I value, but I have sunk a lot of time into it.
The shift to a subscription is going to hit the back end more. It won’t cut down on trail additions since casual users don’t add much content. And when they do it’s often shit- I’ve wasted a lot of time cleaning up GPS tracks. A lot of people don’t even bother clipping an out-and-back track when adding a new trail. I eventually started rejecting those with an ask to clean up the data. But anything that reduces the amount of users will cut down on the trail condition reports and make the statistics page much less useful. If they’re robust enough those stats are really useful for planning/management discussions.
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09-15-2020, 12:53 PM #94
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09-15-2020, 01:47 PM #95
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09-15-2020, 02:51 PM #96
I don't think it will impact local reporting much at all since it will still be free for most users in those areas. Reports are generally local based riders anyway most of the time.
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09-16-2020, 09:20 AM #97
Yeah, it's not like paying for subscriptions isn't the new thing with everything...
https://shop.tetongravity.com/pages/tgr-premiumwww.dpsskis.com
www.point6.com
formerly an ambassador for a few others, but the ski industry is... interesting.
Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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09-16-2020, 12:03 PM #98
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09-16-2020, 01:10 PM #99
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