Unable to add links/URLS to posts /URLs stripped out in comments

​@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.

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

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. 

 

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

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

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 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???

​@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?

Strava is the local legend of dumb decisions. 🏆 

​@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:

 

• Upholding platform safety

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. 

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

Time for an answer so a little bump

JorisTM wrote:

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

 

Helo Strava??

no more.. they all gone.. 

@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….
 

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..

​@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)? 

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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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.

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?