Active.com – you are dead to me.

For a few years I have been using CoolRunning.com as my exercise logger. For the past few months I have seen notices that they would be migrating their data over to Active.com.

The “transition” was this past weekend and boy did it go badly. Much of the data did not transfer over. Actually NONE of the data transferred over automatically and there was a process you could initiate to transfer your data over, but when I did that only about half the data came over.

I was not alone either – the messageboards were flooded with coolrunning refugees talking about how Active.com had screwed them up. In addition to the data migration problems, the logger didn’t have all the features that we were accustomed to at CR. I mean, I know migrations and change can be a big deal, but this was ridiculous.

In one of the threads, someone posted how to get your data out of CoolRunning and there were various other sites proposed to accept us poor refugees. I think I have settled on RunningAhead.com and I will let you know how it goes. Maybe if you’re lucky I’ll update my blogger template to point to a link there instead of the old one that goes to CoolRunning 🙂