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I am viewing Strava on a tablet with a large resolution screen. One of the people I am following has posted a race. You'd think that for a race, seeing the finish time is probably the most important piece of information. And yet, Strava insists on showings only two activity metrics even though this post takes nearly entire screen of my tablet. When I discussed this topic before, the answer was that the isn't enough space on the screen for more than 2 or 3 metrics, but as you can see that is clearly not true.

 

Can someone from Strava explain why activity metrics are the lowest in priority when it comes to the feed? Below the map, a huge part of the screen is dedicated just to showing the 3 icons - to thumb up, comment, and share. Personally, I don't think I've ever shared someone's activity, and to comment I always open activity details. But I want to see more activity details very often. At a minimum, when it comes to ultra running, the activity time is an achievement on its own. When someone spends hours grinding the distance, I want to see that and acknowledge the effort!

Please redesign the feed layout so that we can see at least 3 metrics for any given activity, including the time, regardless of whether there are achievements or not. I think a few small tweaks would make that possible. And ideally, there should always be 4 metrics - distance, time, pace or speed, and elevation gain. One simple idea is to move achievements to the right of the title and description and get rid of the redundant "Achievements" word. That alone would free enough space to always fit 4 metrics.

Hello ​@Silentvoyager 

We appreciate your feedback on this. We’ll be sharing it with our Product Teams and thank you for taking the time to add images to clarify your point.

I am having the same issue - there is no clear reason why sometimes it is shown and sometimes not (see screenshots below)

 

 

​@adrian_fee, looking at your screenshots, perhaps 5.00km is just 1-2 pixels wider than 5.01km, and that is enough for the app to decide whether that would or would not fit based on some predetermined width of the screen in pixels. But that obviously doesn't take into account the actual screen width, the actual font size or the actual display scaling.

What Strava does seems  pretty arbitrary and arguably wrong to me. It is "form over function" like many other things on Strava these days. It doesn't do what most users want for the sake of looking nice. Perhaps, if Strava has reduced margins just a tiny bit, 3 fields would fit most of the time. Perhaps, Strava could also change the layout a little bit and move the achievements to another place. I think a solution could be fairly simple. But there seems to be zero interest on Strava side in making this more useful for the users.

 

 

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