Is the web version of Connect IQ gone?

trudelta 1 day ago

https://apps.garmin.com/ now does not display any of the apps in the store. Just a description of Connect IQ.

I was using it often for multiple purposes, including very importantly being able to copy text out of the app description info. The Connect IQ app very annoyingly does not allow any of the app description text to be copied. ( I believe it used to allow that). Extremely annoying !! Also they removed the ability to search apps. Why is Garmin continusously making everything harder for developers?

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0 GreenBlack 1 day ago

Yes, it's gone: forums.garmin.com/.../changes-to-the-connect-iq-store

0 gxfx 1 day ago in reply to GreenBlack

It's wild that such an important change (moving the developer interface to upload new version to a new domain) is only communicated via a forum post... I wish these things would be handled with more care.

0 flocsy🤠 1 day ago in reply to gxfx

Maybe we'll get an email when it goes to production. Currently it's in "beta". Let's hope it doesn't stay that way forever...

0 gxfx 1 day ago in reply to flocsy🤠

hope are high on this one! definitely appreciate the face lift

0 windfield 1 day ago

anybody else getting "this page is unavailable" when going to any of your app pages. works ok in incognito, but even when clearing cookies it's still broken for me in normal mode.

also if you try to refresh the page you get a nice cloud flare block page.

0 windfield 1 day ago in reply to windfield

ah, it's all in this thread with no resolution

forums.garmin.com/.../1996172

0 flocsy🤠 1 day ago in reply to windfield

Yes

0 flocsy🤠 1 day ago in reply to gxfx

This is the perfect example why in case of Garmin, the "don't touch if it's ain't broken" has to be written on every wall of the office. This thing wasn't perfect, but slowly they made it worse (sometimes uploaded apps are not appearing in the store...) then they intentionally made it worse (removed precise download numbers) then they seemingly made a cosmetic change nobody asked for that broke everything and they don't rush to fix it, even though multiple people reported it when the old link still worked. And finally they removed the old, working website, knowing that the new one will not work for everyone. And then we just start to comprehend that even in the random 5 minutes/day when it works it's useless for beta apps because they forgot beta apps in the design...

0 karrth 6 hours ago

Not much more to add to the comments here. I came to update a couple of apps and review some app stats and just found empty wallpaper.

It's actually so sad to see such distinctly poor communication, and such deliberate hamstringing of features and impetus for people who want to develop and contribute to the garmin ecosystem. But maybe that's the point.