Having used both the Connect website and the app for more years than I care to admit, I've decided to start a thread to post my biggest pet peeves, just in the off chance that I'm not alone and some that some of you want to commiserate. (I don't expect Garmin to address any of this stuff, I'm not crazy haha.)
This post refers to the non-beta version of Garmin Connect (although none of these gripes are really about the home page.)
Calendar
- It's fairly slow to navigate between weeks, months or years in the calendar. When you click on the back or forward buttons, you have to wait for the next week/month/year to load before you can press the button again
- There's no date picker, which would allow us to jump directly to the date we are interested in
- Contrast with the Stryd app's calendar/activity list, which has a date picker where you can at least scroll through the dates very quickly when choosing one to jump to
Activities List
- The infinite scrolling implementation sucks. TL;DR it should give us a way to jump directly to any point in the list (either by eyeballing the relative position or by selecting a date)
It does the bare minimum, which is to only display/load a few entries at a time, and load more when you scroll. There is absolutely no way to jump to an arbitrary part of the activity list based on date, for example. Nor is a custom scrollbar provided to jump to an arbitrary part of the activity based on position in the list. Contrast with Spotify on mobile: when you start scrolling artists in your library, you get a little scrollbar which allows you to jump to anywhere you want, almost instantly (the text beside it changes to show the date added or the first letter of the artist's name). On desktop, discourse and nodebb both have infinite scrolling implementations for long threads which have a custom scrollbar that allows you to instantly jump to any post in the thread.
- Column headers aren't available unless you select a specific sport (like running), which means you can't reverse sort all activities by date (for example)
- Advanced search isn't available unless you select a specific sport, which means you can't search all activities by date
- Speaking of advanced search by date, there's no hint for date format, so you have to click on the date picker to remind yourself that it's "YYYY/MM/DD" (which is *not* standard anywhere -- the ISO standard is "YYYY-MM-DD".) It's fine that they didn't use the standard American format (which is ambiguous anywhere outside of the US, but not so great that they didn't use an actual standard.
- The text boxes in the advanced date search aren't wide enough to show the full currently selected dates:
Activity
- As mentioned many times, the scale on the pace charts is useless (bottoms out around 50:00/km) if you stop or walk slowly at any point during your run (e.g. interval runs or stopping for red lights.) This makes the pace chart useless as there's barely any difference between running at 3:30/k and 5:30/k at this scale. Strangely enough, the mobile app gets it right by setting the cutoff at 20;00/km
- Placing Trim Activity and Edit Intervals on the edit page itself is a bad idea, especially since you lose any and all edits without confirmation when you press either of those buttons. Strangely enough, Trim Activity is also available from the gear menu but Edit Intervals is not. I understand why those buttons are there, but at the very least, if you've made edits and you press one of those buttons, you should be warned that you'll lose changes and prompted to confirm.
- Speaking of Edit Intervals, if I have enough intervals that the drop down for changing the interval type is near the bottom of the page, when I click on the drop down it's displayed below the bottom of the page and I have to scroll down to see it
General
- As with the app, there's no way to mix imperial/status units and metric units. Canadians stay losing. (We use pounds for body weight, feet and inches for body height and metric for almost everythingn else.)
