Tired of waiting for Garmin Connect to have all MotionBased data

Migration Stopped?

I think they stopped the migration because my total over on MB was 1446 and it has stayed at the original 1000 on GC for the last month. If anything additional were being migrated, I'd think at least one or two of the old MB activities would have made it over to GC by now. They have not.

I guess in some twisted logic, going from something that oyu paid for and got good service (MB) to something free but with bad service (GC) somehow makes sense to Garmin.

I kind of pity to former MB moderators who try bravely to rationalize this.

Jim

Jim--I don't agree that the site is free. Garmin sells its products listing this website as a feature of the product, so to me, I paid for it when I bought the Garmin. I'm on my second Garmin--after my original 201 broke last November, I decided to buy another Garmin instead of other choices in part because of the website. All of us Garmin customers pay for the site through our product purchases and we should be getting the functionality and service described instead of expecting us to be satisfied with promises that the product may some day be as good as they say it will be.

Chris.

Look at my thread on the migration on this same forum. There are billions of activities to migrate, and they have to be processed on top of that. Yes, that's a B. I'm happy with GC. Maybe it doesn't have the feature set of MB, but at least it works. MB went down all the time because of site traffic and other problems. It just was NOT robust. GC just works. I will happily wait for features to be added. I have backed up all my MB activities, so if they don't all migrate, I can do it myself. A site with a ton of features but rarely works does me no good.

Look at my thread on the migration on this same forum. There are billions of activities to migrate, and they have to be processed on top of that.

Not billions of activities, but billions of rows. Not sure of the number of activities.

Look at my thread on the migration on this same forum. There are billions of activities to migrate, and they have to be processed on top of that. Yes, that's a B. I'm happy with GC. Maybe it doesn't have the feature set of MB, but at least it frikken works. MB went down all the time because of site traffic and other problems. It just was NOT robust. GC just works. I will happily wait for features to be added. I have backed up all my MB activities, so if they don't all migrate, I can do it myself. A site with a ton of features but rarely works does me no good.

I've used MotionBased for 3 years and never had a problem. Garmin Connect does not reliably upload data. Searches for friends (or my own) data when not logged in is not reliable. MB had much more functionality--choose what to chart, overlay charts like HR and elevation, easily find friends activities and view multiple friends activities at the same time. I have no problem with Garmin wanting to provide a new product, but the old one should not have been discontinued until the new one actually worked and matched the sales pitch. Bottom line, GC is NOT a better product--it is a promise of a better product still under construction.

I've used MotionBased for 3 years and never had a problem. Garmin Connect does not reliably upload data. Searches for friends (or my own) data when not logged in is not reliable. MB had much more functionality--choose what to chart, overlay charts like HR and elevation, easily find friends activities and view multiple friends activities at the same time. I have no problem with Garmin wanting to provide a new product, but the old one should not have been discontinued until the new one actually worked and matched the sales pitch. Bottom line, GC is NOT a better product--it is a promise of a better product still under construction.

I dunno..I've used MB for the past couple of years and I could almost never get on to upload a new activity at the beginning of the week. I'd have to wait until the end of the week (almost a week AFTER doing the activity) to transfer my data. MB search was ridiculous, too. Don't delude yourself. Gotta know the names of all the teeny weeny podunk towns in order to find a specific activity. I'd have to pull up Google Earth alongside it and try all the nearby little towns until I found the right one. Sometimes, depending on the exact start location, an activity for the SAME place would be listed under a different town. Serious PITA. Not sure if GC does the same thing or not.

I'm not saying that GC is all-around better, but they've got the basic architecture down better than MB. Now they have something to build upon. There are some features I'd like added to make it more functional to me. Until then, I have to use other programs or sites to make do. But fact is, none of those is perfect, either. SportTracks has a lot of plugins written by a jerk who requires payment. Topofusion isn't good for sharing. Trimble Outdoors doesn't do anything with HR/Cadence data. I could go on. Each one has advantages, though. SportTracks has very in-depth training utility. Topofusion can create a trail "Network" and can shade your route by HR or speed. Trimble Outdoors can provide links on your map with POI waypoints and photos. There are more, but the trend is the same. Some have cool features, but they lack features I want. GC is no different.

mtbikernate--basically what I get from your thoughts is that no site is perfect, so let's just be happy with it. My point is that MB should not have been turned off when the replacement product was still under construction. Saying the site is 'free' is not true because it is part of the product. And the sales pitch was that GC is 'more robust' with a 'better user interface'. Neither is true. You're impressed, but I'm not impressed--MB had more data and I never had a problem with it--used it almost every single day.