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I'm sorry but the "solution" that was posted in the other thread about this issue is not a solution. A solution would be something that brings our activities, posts, comments, etc to the exact same state they were before you removed the URLs.

You didn't even answer the big open questions we have regarding what happened. I would like Strava to urgently answer the following questions:

(1) Are you filtering URLs merely in the user interface and in the API – or have you actually modified the content stored in your database?

(2) If it is the latter case, how are we going to recover our data? What kind of backups do you have? Are you going to restore all the URLs and other removed content from the backups once this "ongoing situation" is over? Can we at least download an intact version of our data for our own use?

(3) Why there was zero communication about what is going to happen beforehand? It's clear now that you removed the URLs on purpose. The removal wouldn't have been okay even if you gave us an advance warning, but at least it would have made the situation a little bit more bearable.

I could maybe understand if you temporarily disabled adding NEW links to NEW activities, but instead, you retroactively removed all the links from old activities. This has nothing to do with safety and is totally unacceptable.

Just came across this - what a PITA… Strava is becoming Meta...

I’ve just seen an update / official announcement; long story short, Strava says they 1) will NOT restore the removed links (except for the small group of “verified users”), and 2) will NOT restore mistakenly removed non-links either:

 

This is a terrible decision. Seriously - in what universe is it ok to delete customer data and pretend that it's ok to not fix that?

...Seriously - in what universe is it ok to delete customer data and pretend that it's ok to not fix that?

That sucks - but given the current broader environment we are living in, I’d say “we are in that type of universe right now…” 

But are we able to add new links? Or will those still get yanked from our posts?

Thanks for the update

The current solution is even worse than before. Now only verified clubs can post links, which are almost none. 

So it has got nothing to do with internet safety at all.

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