This community hub is a great way to generate ideas and have interested users comment on them. I believe the community base is limited in number and not representative of the broader strava community. For example, many great ideas were proposed and closed due to lack of attention in a sufficient window of time. I would be interested in how many active community members regularly review the ideas and believe this is a difficult task. I would think many of the fantastic ideas here would address issues/improvements that many strava users encounter and think there could be a way to pose these vetted fantastic ideas to the larger community, possibly by activity type. If a user is a subscriber, active road rider, and 5-10 fantastic ideas for road riders pop up, it might be nice for a sub-set of this user group to review and vote on them. For example, as a cyclist, I find it challenging to wade through many other sport comments, though while interesting, would make being an activity community member a ful ltime job. The passion on the forum shows how engaged the user group is, perhaps they can be leveraged for much wanted idea implementation so these great ideas do not end up on the cutting room floor.
+17I agree a lot of improvements could be made. And by the way, I think there's only 10 or 12 who post regularly on these forums.
I don't believe Strava is going to carry your suggestion. And I don't mean to sound cynical, so let me give you my reasoning. Since the start of "open to voting" began about two years ago, only 56 ideas have been followed through. (There are currently 857 ideas open to voting.) And some of those 56 were going to happen anyway, like "put dark mode on the app"... that got a lot of votes, but it's the industry standard now and that's probably why they did it. One person suggested "put live segments on Coros devices". That went through... with ZERO votes! Why? Probably because Coros finnally paid the royalty to Strava for the use of live segments, and the forums now categorize this as a delivered idea!
You see where this is going... we users have no say whatever in which ideas make it to reality. One of moderators admitted as much in a previous thread saying "We would like to have many of these ideas implemented ourselves, but the ideas have to line up with the roadmap Strava has for 2024 and forward." That tells me management alone makes these decisions and the "open to voting" concept is just their effort to hoodwink us into believing we have a say... when we don't.
+1That’s great data, thanks for the reply, it would be interesting for strava to put up numbers of active users (2+ interactions per week?) in a specific sport type and possibly mine users’ comments containing gripes on strava, which while sounding like complaints could be a great source of improvements to pain points that a large number of users experience and could be resolved with possibly little effort. Comparing that to your community hub users would be an eye opener for sure on the number of people who could be leveraged for product improvments.
My personal opinion is that this forum was set up to placate users like us. It gives us the IDEA that they are listening and gets us to stop complaining about problems with the system once we post our idea/issue here. They have clearly and repeatedly stated that they are not going to listen to ideas that don’t already fit in their master plan for the platform. Not sure how much clearer it can be stated that they aren’t looking for new ideas from us. They have their plan and will go ahead with it despite what we might ask for.
The one thing this forum has done fairly successfully is provided a means for other users to help each other on a peer-to-peer level.
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