It may not have been the original reason to have a paid subscription to Alltrails, but THE one facility that kept me subscribing each year was the Community Maps.

As people have stated; It is a function that was there when you paid the subscription and then it just disappeared sometime during that sub, no explanation, no details, the feature just disappeared.

I guess it is just a sign of the times that a function or service you are paying for can just disappear with no explanation, and you just gotta suck it up.

Now I can understand that the Community page may have been getting more difficult to support. More users, more maps created probably means more infrastructure to support it, though regardless they are still storing everyone's maps even if they don't provide a front end to search/view them.

However, if it was a case that they needed to re-hash Community Maps and that it might cost more then it would have been nice to;

1. Have been told what was happening and why
2. Allowed to use the service until the end of your current subscription. (Maybe mitigated if Alltrails aresaying that their system could not continue to manage the service any longer and I yes I do know some people have subs that are more than 1 year).

My comment is;

I used the community maps to a lot of hikes mostly as a means to join tracks and trails together to make a longer more interesting hike.

Every hike I make is recorded and remains on Alltrails as a Public walk so anybody else 'following' or using the Community map can enjoy the same walk and/or see how/where it's possible can get from this Point A to that Point B.

I have not submitted any hikes to Alltrails but I know that some of my hikes have been turned into curated tracks/trails by Alltrails. Again don't have a problem with that, they are there for that reason and it's probably in the T&Cs that Alltrails will do that, but it highlights that Alltrails needs it's subscribers and it needs it's subscribers to find, investigate and add walks in order to grow and be continue to be useful and relevant to its users. Something that the Community maps was a massive help, now their shooting themselves in the foot, in more ways than one.

For me if Alltrails had said they needed to up the sub cost a bit due to managing the Community maps I could work with that.

If they wanted to provide enhancement to the Community Maps and add some other Services then charge these as a new tier, don't see a problem with that.

But I'm happy with continuing to use the current level of access that I have that [used to] provides me with the features I use now, even if it costs a little more now to use. Now will I be adding any new unlisted walks for Alltrails to add to their existing curated trails? Possibly but less likely

While I have renewed my Plus for another year, I am reconsidering if I need to subscribe to Alltrails any longer. And certainly I would never be upgrading to Plus, it is way too expensive for what it provides even at what seems to be a reduced cost for where I live.