Add Ability to View All photos from the Athlete Profile page

[plants4jim]

Can we please get some way to view all pictures? Strava is still hosting these images, if you go back through a timeline, you can find the activities and see the pictures that way. But when you look at the profile, the top only shows the most recent (this works great), but for some reason, the column under the timeline only shows up to 99 (or +99).

Your older images are still being hosted, but you can't easily find them even if you scroll through all the other pictures. Maybe a separate link somewhere or something, not sure. I don't know what the reason is for hiding, but still hosting old pictures. 

I like checking out pics from peoples activities to get inspired to go ride or hike, and sometimes like to check out a memory too.

[Zax]

Currently there is a limitation for showing maximum 100 media files in the athlete profile. Can you increase that number or just leave it without limit?

[Lola]

Hello @Zax!

Strava only displays 100 of your most recent photos on your profile page to decrease the stress on our servers and prevent timeouts. However, all of your photos are still available on the activity page where they were uploaded. Strava does not delete or remove any photos.

Thanks for submitting your idea to increase this limit. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[Juli92]

Thanks for answering 🙂

While that may be true, I like scrolling through my own media, or my friends media to go back and see pictures from things we did together. If I were to scroll through my own activity page or some of my more active friends' pages I would have to scroll for minutes to get to the pictures from more than a year ago, which is were picture #101 might start. It is quite inconvenient and eventually all the older pictures will be so hard to retrieve that they are practically inexistent. 

I do not necessarily understand the issue with server space? The pictures are on your servers anyways and accessible by scrolling though all the activities. Then again, I know very little about IT. So maybe there is an issue I am not seeing. 

[petervalkema]

Hi, I went to a series of my activities (of 2013) to see the photos I posted with them, for instance this one,

https://www.strava.com/activities/57766140 

I am sure there were photos, but not anymore. Can you tell me what went wrong, considering what Lola wrote just above?

Thanks for your help

Peter

[Soren]

Thanks for submitting your idea to implement a link to view all photos. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.
For context, we only displays 100 of your most recent photos on your profile page to decrease the stress on our servers and prevent timeouts. However, all of your photos are still available on the activity page where they were uploaded. Strava does not delete or remove any photos.

[zecanard]

As a software engineer, I’m quite confused as to how allowing users to load older photos would increase server stress, or lead to more timeouts. It’s not like you’re loading all photos at once, just allowing users to browse farther back in time.

Just now I opened my Media list, and waited a minute to see if Strava would preload images. Then I dragged the scrollbar very quickly, and photos had gray placeholders while the app retrieved them from the server. I waited some more, then pulled the scrollbar in the opposite direction. Again, I saw gray placeholders while waiting for the photos to load. Conclusion: Photos do not get pulled from the server until the app needs to display them.

There are so many ways you can keep the app from pulling too much data unnecessarily that this explanation doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me (eg. adding a “Load More…” button after 100 photos; not fetching photos until the user stops scrolling; downloading super-optimized thumbnails for the list, then making a separate call for the full-size version when the user taps the photo, combined with aggressive caching; etc.).

[petervalkema]

Any news on this question? Thanks!

[york85]

This feature would be really really welcomed.

[eed]

In terms of pulling more integration from existing users and tempting across new users at the margin, it seems like a no brainer. I would basically stop using instagram if I could just view all my photos on strava. 

[rzuend]

Make this happen! this is basically my only "social media" and would love to go back in time easily and see the pictures.

[mydearriley]

I would also love to see the "go to activity" link show up under both the web-based and app-based photos!

[MakeStravaGreat]

Facebook is free and they let us have 1000s of photos on our profiles. Strava costs $100 a year and we only get 100? Wat a joke. 

Ive got over 1200 activities on my account, do u realise how hard it is to go back through them to find a photo? 

Having photos linked to memorable activities is huge. I love looking back at them as well as looking at friends. 

You guys are missing a pretty big draw card here. 

[MakeStravaGreat]

Facebook is free and we can have 1000s of photos on our profiles... Strava costs $100 per year and we only get 100 photos.. come on strava sort it out 

[MakeStravaGreat]

@Soren Do you realise how long it would take to browse back through 2000 activities to find a photo of a ride i did back in 2014. especially on a phone, which most ppl use strava on.

Photos that are not in the last 100 are as good as gone. 

Im sure theres a solution to this.  

[bensalt]

Couldn't agree more. I was just looking for some 7-month-old running photos and had to do a manual keyword search on the Activities page to find them.

It'd also be great if we could feature certain photos, so our best photos are seen at the top, followed by most recent photos.