The reason you roll things out slowly is that you want to make sure nothing's getting fucked up, in part software malfunction and in part usage metrics.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2025
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I get it, but from here to October is a long roll out.
At the scale that Google operates, you need to play it carefully with rollouts.
Fair, it sucks because there's meant to be a fix for a bug I've encountered in the current version
That's just a bit sloppy on their part in that case - you fix bugs on all applicable variants of the flag, otherwise you even kind of negate the Scientific validity of your results
So still no challenges brought back but instead loading it with AI? Dumb.
What are the challenges?
Fitbit used to have social challenges where you could invite friends/coworkers to daily or weekly challenges for the most steps. When Google acquired fitbit, they killed the social features to prop up their own Google service (Google Fit). But instead of people moving to Google Fit, they just started using a third party app, stridekick, for social challenges.
Ah, no wonder I didn't know about it. I kinda use my Fitbit in a silo. The thought of people I know watching me makes me anxious.
This smells like AI slop.
Does it fix syncing? Mine will randomly stop, and not send any notification. It just silently stops working.
I think this has been happening to me too, come to think of it.
I saw the headline and thought, "Information overload? I love data, you can't give me enough data!" But no, it looks like a repeat of the Garmin Connect+ disaster, because they apparently didn't learn that people don't need AI to tell them stuff like "You slept for 9 hours last night. You usually sleep for 8 hours. That means you slept for 1 hour more than usual. Sleep is good for you."
I like data too and generally after a workout I screenshot Fitbit and send that screenshot to Gemini for analysis and insight, so I'm quite excited to see what they come up with. I hope they're really pushing the envelope.
gadgetbridge β https://gadgetbridge.org/
Gadgetbridge is a free and open source Android application that allows you to pair and manage various gadgets such as smart watches, bands, headphones, and more without the need for the vendor application. So in short, you can use Gadgetbridge instead of relying on your gadget's own proprietary app.
Honestly, this is a lazy AF comment. Yes Gadgetbridge exists, but what's its relevance here? Does it implement Material 3 Expressive better than Fitbit? Does it have more functionality than Fitbit? Does it present the data as well as Fitbit? Does it implement AI features as well as Fitbit? Why are you mentioning a random AF app that doesn't even support the number one device used by Fitbit users? Up the effort please!
Is it lazy? Yes. Is it useful? Also yes. Youβre complaining about a service, this comment gives you a viable option to not use that service.
I like the idea of the tool very much but it doesn't support Fitbit so I don't know why it's been posted here other than your typical Lemmy FOSS-leaning sentiment.
On what metric? It exists and?
I've learned about gadgetbridge from a lemmy post and because i care about privacy, i'm using it now.
somebody may read that comment and choose their next device accordingly. If you're complaining about Google, you have options