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"What do you think about the new-look Garmin Connect?" - the5krunner (twitter poll results)

Thought I'd post the results of this twitter poll since I keep hearing it's only a tiny minority of people who dislike the new Connect home screen, and bc the audience that follows the5krunner is surely slightly different than the ppl who post here (so we can try to avoid accusations of a forum echo chamber).

Again, personally I think it's mostly an improvement in the app, but a step backwards on the website. I will say I know people who think the app looks much better now (and I tend to agree with them) - keep in mind these are the type of people who wouldn't use the Connect website if their lives depended on it. They would never ask for help on these forums, and if they did, they would not follow the usual troubleshooting advice to "connect your watch to a PC and sync with Garmin Express" because they don't use a computer for anything outside of work.

I will also say I've never seen an outcry of this magnitude in the Garmin forums - ever.

inb4 "you fail to evolve", "lern2adapt" and "lmao you're a developer, open your mind", I have no difficulty using either the Connect app or the website. Even before the changes, Connect wasn't my primary way of looking at Garmin data anyway. To me the discussion around the changes has gotten bigger than the changes themselves.

I know someone will say "wow 177 votes, what a huge sample!!!111111!!!", but to me that just reflects the overall lack of interest in Garmin products in the first place (amongst the kind of ppl who would use twitter in the first place). Like how r/applewatch (the apple watch subreddit) has 838k members while r/garmin has 169k.

And note that his related post is actually all about the app, and therefore the poll is implicitly about the app. The website isn't even a consideration. Arguably I've posted in wrong forum, but I think that if opinion on the app is so divided, it must be just as bad or worse for the website, since the demographics are different (surely some of the ppl who exclusively use the website are a bit more conservative, technologically speaking, which has been explicitly stated by some users here) and the website has lost more functionality than the app (so there's arguably more to be upset about).

[https://the5krunner.com/2024/04/24/garmin-connect-v5/]

[https://twitter.com/the5krunner/status/1783595569614623084]

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0 FlowState 11 months ago

For balance, DCR thinks the app is better now. The controversy obviously showed up on his radar tho. He did mention that Garmin seems to be focusing on the app development at the expense of the website, which is prolly obvious to everyone.

[https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/05/garmin-connect-5-stages-collapse-coros-vertix-2s.html]

0 KrapfenKringel 11 months ago

Oh I missed it. Also very manipulative to make "I don't like it" separated in two sections and "I like it" just one, now on the superficial level, it looks as if the majority would like it, but that's not the outcome on a closer look.

Fixed poll:

0 Martinr2 11 months ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

Think that speaks volumes

0 FlowState 11 months ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

Sure, and a different way to look at it would be that 74.6% didn't hate it haha. I'm not claiming this is a scientific, fair or unbiased poll.

0 Martinr2 11 months ago in reply to FlowState

Statistics is the art of making figures say wheat you want them to

0 bluefish 11 months ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

KrapfenKringel said:
Oh I missed it. Also very manipulative to make "I don't like it" separated in two sections and "I like it" just one, now on the superficial level, it looks as if the majority would like it, but that's not the outcome on a closer look.

Hmm, you're right. But now it's clear that NOT everyone hates the new platform.

Strange, because there are quite a few people here in the forum who spread the statement that it is published everywhere that EVERYONE hates the new platform.

And if you look at all the threads on the topic, it looks at first glance as if hundreds of people in the Garmin forum are upset. But if you take a closer look, you'll notice that there are countless duplicate posts. It is often the same people again and again who occupy all the threads on the subject. They post twice and often more and then open their own thread about it.

But this is certainly not manipulation

Now I know that all the people who write here in the forum that EVERYONE hates the new Connect platform are WRONG.

0 KrapfenKringel 11 months ago in reply to bluefish

Still the likes are the minority, even more in my poll with over 300 unique votes.
Using absolutism is always wrong when dealing with opinions. Should have already been clear to you.

0 bluefish 11 months ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

KrapfenKringel said:
Using absolutism is always wrong when dealing with opinions. Should have already been clear to you.

You an me realize that. But you can get the impression that some others don't realize it. Otherwise these people wouldn't be posting "EVERYONE hates this platform"

0 7618932 11 months ago in reply to bluefish

if some people like new platform, does it mean that it should be pushed to others who don't like it and prefer old one?

0 bluefish 11 months ago in reply to 7618932

7618932 said:
if some people like new platform, does it mean that it should be pushed to others who don't like it and prefer old one?