✓ Athlete-to-Athlete Direct Communication.

[SteveWayne]

Reposted here at request of Soren from Stava, thank you.  

I’d like the opportunity to communicate privately and directly with fellow Strava athletes e.g. gear and route questions, co-training opportunities, etc.; things that are too detailed for the comments section. Creating, integrating, and “policing” an internal Strava personal messaging system is daunting, but what about Strava allowing an email sharing “opt in”? 

Any athlete could allow conversation through their Strava verified sign-in email but it would be hidden behind a “contact this athlete” button on Strava. Only the receiving athlete would see the sending athlete’s email and they could choose to reply or not reply and continue the communication off the Strava website within their personal email (gmail, yahoo, etc).  The general Strava audience would not see any personal email, just the “contact this athlete” button—unless it is grayed out because the athlete chose to not partake in this form of direct communication.  

What are your thoughts and ideas please? Thank you. 

[lopey66]

Just to add to your frustration of differences as like I, the Phone App has a 3D fly behind (helicopter view) animation similar to race route previews following the hot dot.

I see it a bit like Microsoft office, they allowed each office app to develop separately though they copied each other ideas in the code and I could see similar structures in the functions, from different naming conventions to variables in different order.