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0 pointsmrtksn4y ago0 comments

A few years back, I noticed a morbid topic in their forums about a user requesting a feature but a few years later getting diagnosed with a terminal illness before Strava delivering on the feature[0].

I posted it on HN but got flagged[1]. I still find it eye opening, a reminder that the code we write are products impacting the finite life of other people. Maybe we should have more modular, more open software as a standard so that other people can work on and deliver experiences that the original creators fail to deliver.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200601152323/https://support.s...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14935487

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Gigachad4y ago

It is modular. You could download the route GPX, and reverse it yourself.

mrtksnOP4y ago

Sure but I would like to see something more integrated. Browsers are a good example actually, allowing extensions to add all kind of "missing" functionality on websites. We don't have that on mobile or desktop apps and would have been nice. It's one of the strengths of browser based apps.

Gigachad4y ago

No one would actually do this though. You could do this with a browser just fine with an extension but no one is going to spend their time adding advanced features to someone elses paid product. It would also risk breaking on every change.

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[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200601152323/https://support.s...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14935487

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Gigachad4y ago

It is modular. You could download the route GPX, and reverse it yourself.

mrtksnOP4y ago

Gigachad4y ago

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