Wow, what a terrible way to implement this! Even links to other Strava activities from within activities, or within club posts are gone! Imagine if Facebook's anti-spam filter simply removed anything with a dot in it 🤣

Really keen to see this fixed and implemented correctly...

Huh, it's hard to believe this. I REALLY hope that Strava is simply not rendering the links currently and they have not actually deleted anything from their database. I, for one, had a lot of important links to race results and whatnot. If they really deleted the links (and anything with a dot), they better have good backups to bring everything back exactly as it was.

The communication about this issue is really lacking. I think there should be an announcement on the front page and/or an email to every user. If it is about merely not rendering the links, it's probably important to not modify any of your descriptions etc while this is being fixed, in order to avoid actually losing the links.

I'm eagerly waiting for an update. If it turns out that Strava has actually deleted parts of theirs users' valuable data, this is really serious. If I cannot trust Strava even in the most basic task of retaining my data, there is no way I will ever subscribe again.

I'm slightly worried that it is more than just a UI/rendering change, as when getting activity title and descriptions via their API, it also returns it without any links.

Granted, their API may also be stripping these out from the raw data, but.......

It has been removed including from the Strava clubs! Incredible! Please increase the level of priority to fix it

Take a look here...

https://strava.app.link/tMusX2iKlNb

Hello all, please find more information regarding this here. Thank you. 

Now that the Community Hub has been updated to its new form, re-pinging this thread because this is still an ongoing issue & Strava has not yet laid out a plan for remediating & fixing the lost user data.

Marya — the link you provided a month ago is broken. I remember it working before the Community Hub UI/UX update, so it might still be around but the link is not correct — mind sharing a new link to that post here for posterity? I also remember that post saying that Strava updates regarding this issue would be posted there, which is why I think many of us would be interested in having it handy.

This is devastating. For the past 2+ years on every single activity I have linked a song that I attribute to that activity, either in the description or comments. These were usually Spotify, Youtube, or Soundcloud links. Every single one of those song links for every single activity over those 2+ years is now gone. I’m completely letdown as a Strava subscriber by this overarching attempt to “ensure athlete safety.”  This feels like Strava attempting to protect us whether we like it or not. Also, the implementation of this was done with a complete lack of forethought. If there is any way for these to be restored, I would be very grateful, if only to save them for my own personal memory.

Signed, Extremely Disgruntled Strava User