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  • September 28, 2024
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  • November 27, 2024

@theofloor I know. I already asked my wife to cancel her subscription. I'm reluctant only because I use the route builder on a regular basis. I'll try the other services for route building and if it's working I'll cancel mine as well. I love Strava and I'm willing to continue to support it but they need to listen to the users.


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  • November 27, 2024
theofloor wrote:

The words “maddeningly unhelpful” don’t even begin to describe the official response. ​@Marya, ​@Scout, has there been any movement on this? ​@k1zmt probably put it most accurately and succinctly:

k1zmt wrote:

There are athletes who are brand ambassadors and they use referral links as part of their duties.

This types of measures indicates that Strava has poor decision making that directly impacts the large cohort of users.

Strava must reconsider this approach and use A/B testing before rolling out such features. 

Obviously, the current implementation is a direct result of exceptionally poor engineering skills and must be immediately reverted. 
The old data has to be restored from the backups. 
 

@JbalColgate ​@VikAnis ​@tpiszel ​@BramH and anyone else who currently has a Strava Premium subscription: you should absolutely cancel that immediately until Strava can implement a fix! Maybe just maybe they’ll realize how silly their “solution” has been if it starts to affect their subscriber base...

they pissed off lotsa users and hundreds already cancelled their paid membership, i will not pay them next year


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  • November 27, 2024

This is such an annoying approach.


“There may be terms violating or harmfull links on our platform” 
Intern: “If we delete them all, the problem is solved”
Strava: “Great”. “We will drop the term “athlete safety” and our flock will be instantly quiet”

They are shrinking the social element in more ways (narrowed the nr. of shown media in athlete profiles as well) and are giving us AI BS instead.

Not renewing my paid subscription next year. 
Found good alternatives for Strava Routes. 

 


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  • December 2, 2024

Strava doesn't just remove URLs. For example, if you manually add the text "VO₂ max=58 ml/kg.min" to your activity description, the next time you edit the description, the text will change to "VO₂ max=58 ml/". If you add the same text using the API, the change is immediate.


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  • December 2, 2024
Hynek wrote:

Strava doesn't just remove URLs. For example, if you manually add the text "VO₂ max=58 ml/kg.min" to your activity description, the next time you edit the description, the text will change to "VO₂ max=58 ml/". If you add the same text using the API, the change is immediate.

this is beyond dumb


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  • December 6, 2024

Allow all Strava based URL/links to be included in descriptions, comments and posts.

It seems too heavy-handed that links to posts in this very community hub, communityhub.strava.com, are not allowed and removed from our content.

In particular I would like to promote the idea to provide a filter on our activity feed to try and spur others to vote on the idea and force Strava into some action. I am unable to do this as the URL is stripped out  https://communityhub.strava.com/ideas/filter%2Dthe%2Dtype%2Dof%2Dactivities%2Dthat%2Dare%2Dshown%2Din%2Dmy%2Dfeed%2Dability%2Dto%2Dmute%2Dspecific%2Dactivity%2Dtypes%2D6670


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  • December 6, 2024

Hi ​@Woodacus 

Thanks for your post. As stated in our Guide to Ideas, requests to roll back launches or revert an update will be closed. 

We appreciate your feedback however, and I’ll be merging your comments into an existing discussion on this topic. Thanks again.


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  • December 6, 2024

@Jane I know this thread here is marked as “Solved” (it’s totally not, but perhaps that’s beside the point)...any idea what the status is of links in Strava posts? ​@Marya ​@Scout?? Anyone???

 


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  • December 6, 2024

@Jane I am not asking to roll back a launch, I am simply asking you to apply some common sense and let your own URLs pass through your filters. Hardly ground breaking?


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Strava is the local legend of dumb decisions. 🏆 


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  • December 7, 2024
Jane wrote:

Hi ​@Woodacus 

Thanks for your post. As stated in our Guide to Ideas, requests to roll back launches or revert an update will be closed. 

We appreciate your feedback however, and I’ll be merging your comments into an existing discussion on this topic. Thanks again.

 

@Jane Excellent policy and great job enforcing it. Nothing brings a community together like telling your customers collectively to STFU when you do something amateurish and harmful to your platform. As a reminder ​@Mara posted this:

 


Nearly 3 months ago. You’re saying that as a multi-millon dollar company you’ve had to remove a basic feature that every other SOCIAL platform has in order to protect us with no additional insight on timeline, what has happened with our data, etc.? There need to be more threads on this. 


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  • December 10, 2024

@STRAVA can you explain why some profils and group like UTMB still have the right to post link ? 

 


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  • December 13, 2024

Time for an answer so a little bump


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  • December 23, 2024
JorisTM wrote:

@STRAVA can you explain why some profils and group like UTMB still have the right to post link ? 

 

Helo Strava??


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  • December 23, 2024
vegantrilad wrote:

All of a sudden I am unable to add links to my posts. I stream my Zwift races on YouTube and have always be able to use Strava as a way to let me followers know when I'm racing. I been on this platform for years and am always interacting with fellow athletes. Link to my post https://www.strava.com/athletes/35894425/posts/32646115

no more.. they all gone.. 


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@Strava Any news on this problem you guys created months ago. I need an answer so I know if it makes sense to keep my paid subscription or switch to the free one. Let’s start the new year with better decisions….
 


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  • December 25, 2024

Ill give it until the new year. If by then there is still no answer to this annoying issue I will move on to another platform as this non-linking policy really makes my organizing life miserable and you don't deserve my financial support anymore after all these years. 

What an absurd decision and approach to alienate your customers like this. Honestly I don't understand why the community is not making more fuzz about this. 


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  • December 25, 2024
BramH wrote:

Ill give it until the new year. If by then there is still no answer to this annoying issue I will move on to another platform as this non-linking policy really makes my organizing life miserable and you don't deserve my financial support anymore after all these years. 

What an absurd decision and approach to alienate your customers like this. Honestly I don't understand why the community is not making more fuzz about this. 

Everything they did in the last few years was to alienate, antagonize and piss off paying customers.. 
Starting with shutdown of Map Editor (ID editor) , disabling fly by, etc, etc..

Strava needs a new CEO, the one who is not going against the grain of athletes..


Jan_Mantau
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  • December 25, 2024

@JbalColgate What has the Openstreetmap ID editor to do with Strava (besides it’s still working) and why do you claim that flybys are disabled (they were never, it’s a user setting for some years)? 


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  • January 3, 2025

Happy 2025! Here is a link to receive a free strava premium membership: https://

 

(See what I did there)


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  • January 3, 2025
BramH wrote:

Happy 2025! Here is a link to receive a free strava premium membership: https://

 

(See what I did there)

there is no link


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  • January 3, 2025
JbalColgate wrote:
BramH wrote:

Happy 2025! Here is a link to receive a free strava premium membership: https://

 

(See what I did there)

there is no link

Lol


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  • January 5, 2025
BramH wrote:
JbalColgate wrote:
BramH wrote:

Happy 2025! Here is a link to receive a free strava premium membership: https://

 

(See what I did there)

there is no link

Lol

Hah

Hahahahahaha

🥲


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  • January 7, 2025

So, three months in, thousands of comments on the web regarding this topic and still I have no idea why Strava has decided to remove all url's from it's platform.


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  • January 8, 2025

It's driving me insane that I have to ask people to visit our site for the latest events overview and have to use childish spaces between www and . cc to fake a URL. 

 

Djeez Strava grow up. What are you afraid of when we post a normal link?


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