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Rate limit increase denied twice, no specific feedback — any advice?

  • August 8, 2026
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Hi all,

My app (TORQ Events, Client ID 203313) is an existing hill-climb series platform — riders manually submit times, we score/rank them. I’ve been attempting to add a Strava integration to automate a Local Legend feature and had a rate-limit/athlete-capacity increase request denied, twice now, with the same generic template both times.

Since the first denial I made changes for API Policy §2.3/6.1 compliance: no rider's Strava data is visible to another user anymore (aggregate-only, no user-level data exposed), added a Privacy Policy, an in-app disconnect flow, and a deauthorization webhook. Resubmitted, got the same generic rejection with no indication of which reason applied.

One thing from the docs I want to ask about: I'm currently polling the API for activity data rather than using the webhook events API for activity updates — is that expected to matter for capacity approval, or is the deauthorization webhook (which I do have) sufficient?

Any insight from others who've been through this, or a way to get case-specific feedback, would help a lot.

Thanks,
Carl

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Jan_Mantau
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  • August 8, 2026

Hi ​@torqevents , using webhooks instead of polling is a mandatory requirement for a successful app review. Another point to note is that aggregated data from the Strava API is still subject to the “Not visible for other users” policy, because that policy isn’t about privacy, but competition with Strava features.


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  • August 8, 2026

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply.

I think I will cut my losses at this point then :)