Strava Features Chat

I’d like to incorporate the Global Heatmap data into recreation and conservation planning efforts in USA.  Is this possible?  Is there someone I could speak with to discuss it?

Since my garmin watch records equestrian activities,  why not do the same? It's not like the horse is doing all the work. Blue below is speed. We did about 8k in an hour. Figure below shows heart rate,  showing significant exertion.  

Please get rid of the strava features, challenges and adverts from the homepage.  I don't need to see these, I want to see what everyone else is doing, not what challenges there are. At least make these optional or in a drop down box or something.  I will not renew my subscription if these remain. 

Hey all, I used to love sharing my activity map with the “Save Image” feature on the app.Now when I do that the title and activity stats are considerably bigger than before and often cover up the name of the city. I can save a transparent version of the stats that would allow me to make them smaller but unfortunaley I can’t save the map on its own. Any idea’s appreciated, I wish Strava had never changed from the old smaller title. It was perfect. Thanks

Hello,I completed a bike ride of 100.1 km, and when I finished the route, I shortened it by 0.1 km. But when the route updated, it now only shows 55.97 km. I lost half of my ride and I can’t manage to recover it. What should I do? Could we restore the original route? Is this an option available in the paid version?Thank you.Eric.

When viewing the Gravel Heatmap, you also see a lot of normal paved roads highlighted. This could be prevented if you could exclude the roads that are also used a lot by a roadbike heatmap. A lot of times it is very difficult to know what the nice gravel roads are in an area because a lot of ‘gravel’ rides are probably also winter rides on asphalt.

I’ve noticed a change in how Strava calculates calories when switching between bikes. Earlier, when I changed my bike selection (e.g., from my Scott Aspect 970 to my Cannondale Optimo), the calorie count used to update based on the bike and its weight. However, now when I switch bikes, the calorie calculation remains the same, regardless of the bike chosen. Could you please clarify if there has been a change in how Strava factors bike weight or type into calorie estimates? I’d like to understand if there’s a way to make calorie calculations more accurate when using different bikes. Thank you for your help! —Abner John 

Hi please see image attached share snapshot no longer available on all recent activities. Ive chceked settings and all seems correct.When i share old activities the snapshot comes up! Anybody know why?  

Receive the option to use a new screen / interface to record an activity this morning. Wanted to share some early feedback. (iPhone app user, UK based.)Positives:Great to see the time & distance on the map screen. No more switching between screens to know how far I’ve travelled while following a route. This is a huge improvement and outweighs all the other items below. Thank you! Good to have an easily visible option to add a route at the start of my ride.Negatives:Strange to see ~20% of the bottom of the screen permanently occupied with a huge Pause button and a Send Beacon Text option. I don’t want to pause while I’m moving. In fact, I definitely don’t want to accidentally pause while I’m trying to use a map feature on the move. Is there any way to make the Pause option only appear when I’m standing still? Or at least make it smaller? Send Beacon Text is a great option but I don’t need to see it permanently. If I choose not to send one, I’d like to be able to clear it from the sc

I’m getting political club info in my feed (cycle for this politician or that one) and I’d really like an option to block these. I like Strava for data and motivation, not more hate-messaging. There’s enough of that in every other app. 

I had an active streak of 59 weeks. I have uploaded an activity - but the streak did not change to active (having the flame turn to orange).In this support article I read that every activity during a week (starting Monday, ending Sunday) should count towards the streak. I can confirm that all of my activities have been 60 seconds or longer. I can also confirm I have done at least one activity every week; see the screenshot attached (from the desktop view)I am adding an image from a friends account - to show the difference between the active and inactive streak.  Screenshot of my inactive streak Screenshot of my training calendar (desktop view) to confirm I have not skipped a weekScreenshot from a friends app that shows an active streak  

My saved routes are now showing on iOs. See photo below.   

Hi, the latest updates of the iOS app have some added automation which seems to try to be helpful, but, please, how can I disable that? 😬First - making a screenshot of activity details triggers a sharing screen (where you can save an image of the map or the activity photo with stats). I understand it might make sense in some use cases, but if I'm taking a screenshot of the splits, elevation graph or pretty much anything in the activity details, I really do not want the sharing screen to pop up and hide the details that I want to capture. Second - once opening a newly imported activity, a "quick edit" dialogue pops up immediately prompting to rename the activity etc. But it's too simplified and doesn't include all the options (such as: shoes), so I always just close it and open the actual Edit mode. The "quick edit" is just a distracting and frustrating step. If anything needs to be automated this way, then perhaps why not opening the newly imported activity in the Edit mod

Everything was working fine earlier today. I was able to “like” comments under my posts, but when I tried later I got the message, “Something is wrong, please try later.”I also noticed that after I give Kudos and refresh my app, those kudos have disappeared.I can still comment on posts, but I can’t like any responses.I’ve logged out, reinstalled, etc.  

Why can't I create segments shorter than 500 meters for cycling and shorter than 300 meters for running, even though I have a subscription, when I've seen shorter segments on Strava?For example this running segment is only 280 meters long: https://www.strava.com/segments/19339033

Last few weeks I can only give approx 20 kudos to other athletes. When does Strava fix this? Unlimit kudos is absolute 

When I start the Android app, wait for the GPS to be found (Green status), presse the start button and then put the screen to sleep with the power button, the activité is well recorded.But if the GPS is not found or weak when I press de start button and then the power button, the activité is not recorded until I wake the screen, which is often when I finish the activity (happens mostly when I am commuting because of the topography).Its happens more since the latest update of the recording interface, a few weeks ago. 

It would be helpful to have the ability to rename routes directly from the My Routes list page.

I know it is a small thing but it is one of those things that is quite annoying about Strava. You know that situation when you finish a run and notice that it is very close to a round number of miles, than you run a bit further to make it e. g. 5 miles. Then it uploads to Strava and shows as 4.99 miles in some parts of the app and 4.9 miles in other parts of the app (e. g. the training calendar). Can Strava stop doing that? 

Hi All and Strava I know there used to be an association between Strava and parkrun. But regardless of the reason for that ending parkrun is a great force for good and encourages people to exercise. My feature request is to have a runtype category of 'parkrun' much like there is one for 'race'  

Question: is there a limit to the kudos that you can give? Per hour, per day, etc?  I was scrolling my feed and was giving kudos and at some point I wasn't able to. 

Since about a year, when navigating to the Maps section of the app (on Android), the default view is with “Routes” selected. I only used the Maps to check my saved routes, so every single time I have to disable the list of routes proposed (which are terrible suggestions in my opinion, by the way) which becomes very annoying when trying to follow a route, since the app constantly also reset the view after a few minutes, so that I need to open the saved route again. Can the app at least remember the choice of “Map only” view for the next time I open the Maps tab?Also, when loading a saved route, the default view is 3D, so every time I have to change it back to 2D (after having to wait for the camera to do its movements) since the 3D maps are completely unreadable. Can the app also remember this preference? Or better, can there be an option to completely disable the 3D map view everywhere in the app? That would be fantastic. 

I get it that some people may find this feature useful. But I am on week 488 of the streak and trust me I am not going to skip a week in a foreseeable future, therefore for me this feature is absolutely useless - it only adds clutter and makes it more difficult to access other features that I use very often, for example the Training Log. The Training Log in particular is being pushed further and further down in the UI with every new shiny feature that Strava adds to the app. How many people do actually find the Streak feature useful? Have you done any research? Since there are a lot of features in the "You" tab, how about giving users a bit of control on reordering these features or hiding them? Also, that would give Strava a feedback on which features users do actually prioritize.

After a few years of having a paid subscription, I have reverted to the free option - main reason is that I am getting old and no longer able make use of the additional features of paid model. On returning to the free model, it seems to have lost so much that was there a few years ago. 1) I cannot load up past similar runs so I now have to create my own spreadsheet. 2) I look at the group for my running club and can only  see the top three for each category. I am certain I used to be able to see all 80 to 100 runners in the group. There is no point in just looking at the elite athletes and not being able to see your peers.Also, Strava now seems extremely slow to load but I don’t think this is down to switching to free model as I am sure it was becoming slow with the subscription model (and I am comparing it to other apps on the same computer, same broadband).I am seriously considering abandoning Strava and finding an alternative.

I'm sensitive to screen motions and I dislike the recent app update for 2 things in particular. First, when I hit record (which is now bizarrely a play button) the map spins around to orient to north. I try to look away as quickly as I can after pressing play/record but still end up getting some nausea from the spinning. The second issue is the stupid animation that appears after an activity that says things like "way to go!" and moves around the screen. Again, more screen movement that I have to try to look away from so as to not feel seasick. I know I'm in the minority but is there a way to disable map spinning and animations?