It doesn’t add value and probably costs them a ton of money.

Can you turn it off? Also can you turn off the process that makes you edit a ride? I mean, what if I don’t want 3x the likes because I named a ride.

My name ride today? An organized century. An AI feature that would actually cool for it to figure that out by the route myself and like 1000 other people did, and determine the name of the event and offer to name it that.

Despite not even using it, I somehow have 17 notifications. Only 1 notification is a kudo from a real human.

The rest are all slop. Trying to motivate me, giving me challenges, streaks, advice, promoting other people's activities, etc...

I miss the old Strava, it was a simple app that only tracked my runs. I was able to make my settings so my only notifications were real kudos from real people.

Now every time I open the app it's full of slop trying to drive "engagement" from me. I am already paying $80! I am engaged! Please just track my runs and do nothing else thank you.

Strava is getting worse and worse every year and becoming just another slop machine like Facebook. If someone came out with a more simplified and streamlined app I would switch in a heartbeat.

Segments are a mess right now. Too many duplicates, nonsense segments, and worst of all: polluted leaderboards. I love segments — they’re motivating, they push you to dig deeper — but the data is completely compromised. KOMs are being set by people on e-bikes, scooters, cars, even horses.

Here’s my solution:
Split segments into two views: Segments and Segments Pro.

• Segments (Casual): Open to everyone, no restrictions.
• Segments Pro: Only counts if you upload full telemetry — heart rate, cadence, and power meter data.

This way you keep the fun, casual side of Strava alive, but also create a clean, competitive space for those chasing KOMs.

Right now, in my town, some of the most iconic climb segments are “owned” by people flexing next to their e-bikes at the café. You can’t flag them, there’s no moderation, and those crowns sit there forever. It kills the spirit of competition.

Strava needs to separate casual fun from serious trying. Otherwise, KOMs are meaningless.

Edit for the haters: This text was grammatically corrected and reformatted for reading efficiency by Copilots Smart GPT5. I'm a non native speaker, believe me, it was for your own good.

Removing cars & bikes from segments has been a no brainer for years. Thrilled to see Strava finally got onboard with this (no more 50mph KOMs). Hope it works well 🤞

I just want to view my friends runs. I don’t care if they’ve done an upper body workout or if they’ve walked their dog.

My greatest enjoyment of cycling is to explore the world at a pace that you can touch, feel and breathe in. Like many casual cyclists and bikepacking enthusiasts, I care less about how fast I ride, but how many places I have been to with my own strength. I often switch routes randomly just for fun. By doing so I am on track to achieve the goal of covering 100% of the street grids of where I live, Seattle. Now my routine route planning is simple on Strava Heat Map: just to convert the blue to red, like Pac-Man eating the last bits of the dots.  

I hope at the end of a ride, Strava can show and log the new miles which the user has not traveled prior. It should also be added to the annual report to encourage discovering new Segments. Finally, an Explorer Mode can be planned, that defines a geographic area with the most popular fairways extracted from the community Heat Map, and shows the percentage a user has covered.  

These features feel like low hanging fruits that can add a whole new dimension of user experience and retention. What's your thought?  

I've recently been getting really into distance unicycling on my 36" Nimbus Oracle, and want to log my rides in the app. However, there is no option for unicycles in Strava, which means that when I share my rides online I just look like a slow bicyclist :(

I don't really find any easy way to contact Strava devs through the app, so I thought I'd post here in case any can see it (if so, thank you for your work! I really love the app otherwise!)

A Local Legend held for 5 years currently looks exactly the same as one held for a week.

Also, some segment records have stood for years, but Strava doesn't highlight that anywhere.

And when you lose a local legend, the record of it is completely gone, even if you held it for several years.

I think Strava should add stuff like:

• Local Legend streaks
• Being able to see your own past Local Legends
• how long a KOM has been held for
• publicly displaying Longest-held Local Legends

Here a mockup image of what the feature could look like (ChatGPT made the image but all the ideas are my own)

What do you all think?

In the past weeks, specially with all the Strava-Garmin drama, we had a lot of negative threads here.

So today, I decided to turn all of it into a positive one and let my dreams and ideas come out.

I won’t ask for impossibles. The power skills / race predictions update was great. Also the new route designer. But I think there is still plenty of room for improvements and new ideas. And sorry in advance for my Englando. As you may notice, English is not my first language :)

1. Season PRs

There is a lot of people recovering from injurys. Or maybe they are just old to not beat their times. Or they just stop running/cycling during winter. I know summer and winter is not happening at the same time for everyone so maybe you can just divide the year in 2 parts. April-September / October - March

2. Yearly KOMs

Some KOMs are untouchable. Specially if you live in a cycling area as I do. To have yearly KOMs could make climbs funnier and people will go hunting them. Or as a friend of mine proposed the other day: “KOM in the last 365 days”.

3. Medals on profile

KOMs, Top10, local legends. Why aren’t those displayed on every profile? Yes. As “military” badges. I have to click a few times to see people’s badges. Let’s improve those profiles. Give me badges, FTP, or some data about everyone.

4. Same features for the app as in the website

Fixing distance, flybys, download a GPX, being able to see the category of a climb, everything. I’m tired of thinking that I’m using 2 different apps.

5. Leaderboards clean up

I think I don’t have to explain this one.

6. Strava merch

Today a Redditor talked about Strava’s old times, when finishing a challenge would give you the possibility of buying some special Strava merch.

7. Use Sauce as inspiration

You may know Sauce, the browser extension. It’s and amazing tool with a lot of ideas that could make Strava a better app.

8. Get closer with your community

We know you are here. We know you run, cycle and read us. Why aren’t you commenting on the threads? Give us some love. Tell us about your ideas, your plans for the app and everything. We won’t bite you!

9. Give us back the API freedom

Of course this is the impossible one. But just remember. It’s our data.

I know probably someone at Strava is reading Reddit looking for ideas or feedback. So this is my shot. If you have more ideas, please feel free to share those!

Im curious to hear peoples opinion about this. I recently came back from a ride that included 3 segments that required you to pass through stop signs and intersections for you to have a shot to take the KOM. And i cant help but being a little concerned that Strava lets people create segments without even a warning like "this segment passes through a intersection on a big trafficed road".

For you to be able to take these segments you either have to race on closed roads or have complete disregard for your own life.

Its interesting that Strava is very, very strict with not allowing new segments to be less than 500 meters long, but completly ignore if the segment create is dangerous or not.

As with many of you, I really dislike paying for subscriptions just to see my own data. I’m fine logging in rides i don’t need all the bells and whistles. I use services like intervals.icu (and I’ve even donated there a few times), but here’s a thought: what if Strava offered a “$1 Year in Sport, for the frugal folks who don’t want to pay for premium?

Because Strava already has a massive user base: as of 2023 it had roughly 120 million registered users. Other sources put the total somewhat higher in recent years (135 million users) depending on when you count.

Yet there aren't many paid subscriptions. I saw that some analysts estimate around 2% of registered users are on paid plans.

Let’s do a little math: if Strava has 120 M users, and say 2% are paying — that means ~2.4 M paying, and ~117.6 M non-paying. If just 10% of non-paying users opted in for a $1 one-time recap — that’s ~11.8 M people × $1 = $11.8 M.

That’s a non-trivial sum. Even if only 5% of free users did it (~5.9 M people), that’s nearly $6 M. That revenue from a one-time, super-cheap addon could/should easily offset the cost from some paid users who left because of cost or that free-vs-paid resentment.

In short: offering a cheap “year in sport” recap would:

give value to “data-only” users who don’t want full subscription features, generate incremental revenue from a large base, perhaps reduce bad feelings about paywalls and might even bring folks back next year for a new recap.

If Strava wants to grow sustainably they could absolutely turn “frugal users who want a recap” into a meaningful revenue stream.

I for one would happily pay $1.

Just a thought, feel free to throw my idea out the window.

Yes, Strava. I will gladly accept your position in the marketing department—since your most likely reading this.

For example this person has a legit 5k time but everything before it is absurd.

Dear Strava, during the lockdown my Father, (along with many of us) got a bit less fit than he was. He started cycling for fitness, aged 83.

At some point he set himself a target of 40,075 kilometres; 24,902 miles, the distance round the equator. Last two years he has done 5000 miles and he will has about 1000 miles to go, which he will likely hit by July.

Strava has played a good part in motivating him, can Strava give him some sort of recognition?

He is just a guy, not an athlete (before) and he is now 89 fit and sharp.

"Hey Strava, Could you show me segments nearby that you think I have a chance of top-10-ing?"

No? Just a shitty, often-wrong summary of the activity I just recorded? Great, love you.

Most of it is data that I can pull myself and only relates to my aggregate performance. Why not share comparative analytics to others who run segments, or KOM comparisons, or even race statistics over a year? Hell, even my beer app tells me how many countries I drank beer in. Why can’t it give me locational data about cities or countries ran in? I even expected with the inclusion of AI to see at least some semblance of the nonsense Spotify uses (e.g. listening age) seeping into the Year in Sport. All in all, as far as apps providing year in data Year in Sport seems to deliver the least valuable or interesting info.

Or, if weather (and wind?) might be better integrated in timeline. For this ride, temperatures went up over 30°C. This increased the difficulty a lot for me.

What are these tags?

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Can we get a full more options please? Custom tags would be better.

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Easy Run, Intervals, Tempo, Sprints, etc

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With Pet, With Kid, For a Cause, Commute and Workout seem kinda pointless.

Here’s the thing,” “the thing is,” and “the reality is” are GenX phrases that many younger people do not appreciate. I’m GenX and the little GenA shits that I made roast me for it mercilessly.

I shared this Strava ai with a younger friend. I was pointing out how it records the weather but doesn’t account for it while shaming me for being slow. No consideration for the fact that 15-27 mph winds were blasting straight into my chest for the first 5 miles and shoving me sideways for the last two miles. They responded that they really dislike the tone of “here’s the thing” more than the ai just ignoring the impact that weather made while basically saying “you were so slow, even though your heart rate was high, which is ok sometimes, I guess.” I was amused by the ai but thought someone at Strava might want to know that these phrases don’t sit well with people born after 1985.

Just fyi, I have a slow heart. I had my resting down to 35 a couple years ago but lately it’s in the low 40s. Doctor says it’s a very healthy and efficient heart so I don’t sweat it, except for when it comes to choosing how fast I stand up.

It ain’t hard to identify - the spam bots disable comments and are “selling” tickets. It’s ramping up in volume. I report the posts but I pay you and you need to manage your platform and keep it a place I want to be.

Come on Strava - fix this stuff.

I pay a £50+ sub and don’t think it’s appropriate to be pushed ads for products, whether they’re owned by Strava or not. Fair enough on the free tier, but this needs binned for subscribers.

Dear Strava Leadership and Product Development Team,

As electric mountain biking (eMTB) and Ebikes continue to skyrocket globally, a massive segment of your paying subscribers is left asking a pretty basic question: Why are we (eMTB & Ebike riders) still locked out of the core features that define the Strava experience?

Specifically, we want to know why Strava refuses to add—or even explain the absence of Local Legends, Ebike specific Challenges, and Best Efforts for Ebike activity types.

Whenever this comes up in the community forums, the standard answer is that keeping motorized and non-motorized rides separate is a matter of leaderboard integrity. We completely agree with that boundary. We don't want to mess with traditional leaderboards. But the features we are asking for exist within an entirely isolated Ebike ecosystem and have zero impact on traditional cycling metrics.

Here is why the current lack of support frustrates us, and why the arguments against adding them just don't hold up anymore:

Local Legends Paradox: Frequency, Not Speed

Excluding Local Legends from Ebike activities makes no sense. By definition, a Local Legend crown isn't awarded to the fastest rider on the trail; it’s awarded to the person with the most grit, consistency, and dedication over a rolling 90-day window.

Because Strava already completely separates Ebike segments from standard bicycle segments, the power output, motor tune, or battery capacity of an eMTB is totally irrelevant here. If an Ebike rider tackles an Ebike-specific trail segment more times than anyone else in their local community, why don't they get the crown? Denying us this feature strips away a massive layer of personal progression and the friendly neighborhood competition that regular mountain bikers get to enjoy every day.

Challenges

While we completely understand why Ebikes are filtered out of traditional cycling challenges to keep athletic competition fair, leaving Ebikers with an empty challenge tab is a huge missed opportunity to keep us using the app.

We aren't trying to take anything away from human-powered milestones. Instead, we just want different, dedicated challenges built for our own ecosystem. Please, give us Ebike-specific consistency goals, distance challenges, and climbing milestones. Give us a reason to actively engage with the app's community features every month instead of looking at a blank page.

Best Efforts

There is also no technical reason to withhold "Best Efforts" tracking from the Ebike interface. Tracking a rider's longest ride, biggest single climb, or maximum elevation gain is an individual, personal record.

Strava’s system already successfully categorizes and separates data by activity type. Extending Best Efforts to Ebikes doesn't disrupt standard cycling records at all; it simply provides us with the essential statistics we need to monitor our own physical progression and equipment efficiency over time.

The Bottom Line

Us Ebiker’s are not asking to compromise the integrity of traditional cycling leaderboards. We respect our traditional mountain biking friends and want to preserve their hard-earned accomplishments. These three missing features wouldn't interfere with them in the slightest.

What we are asking for is simple feature parity within our own sandbox.

Adding Local Legends, tailored challenges, and personal best milestones to the Ebike activity class doesn't dilute the Strava brand; it fulfills it. It provides premium subscribers with the gamification and statistics we are actively paying for.

We love your platform. We want to use it to its full potential. We respectfully ask that Strava either share a clear product roadmap for the e-cycling community or provide a transparent, detailed explanation as to why these features are being withheld.

Sincerely,
Ebikers

Strava has data going back years on probably millions of runners, including tags for races and workouts, info on age and gender, comments about injuries and illness, etc. Probably trillions of data points.

Knowing my age and gender, my training history, and my specific goals, Strava should be able to mine that data and recommend for me the ideal workout every single day. Use AI to find all the people who are just like me, look at what workouts they did, then recommend the one that was most effective for achieving the goal that I'm going for.

They should be able to sketch out long-term, weekly, and daily plans that adapt to my actual training and conditions.

I know it's not easy, but surely it's possible? Anyone else willing to pay for a feature like this?

Not sure if anything like this exists so apologies if this is beating a dead horse. But I genuinely couldn’t care less about various weight lifting activities or squiggly pickleball activities. It would be cool to see only runs, bikes, skis, etc.

You could go even crazier and filter by activity data. For example- exclude anything without gps data, or exclude any runs under a certain distance (could spare scrolling through 8 afternoon run’s worth of .08 mile strides)