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There needs to be an update of various levels for climbing (as has previously been done with distance challenges) in the cycling monthly challenges as 7,500m can be done without any real effort depending on your location.
It seems like Strava has turned its back on its core base of members and tried to go after the most minimally active people it can find, coddling them along with insufferably patronizing kudos and constant congratulations
I have noticed that you can no longer comment on any of the current and future challenges in Strava, probably because everyone was complaining of the changes.
It does not make sense as to why Strava can't just bring back the former challenges or implement the easy changes (like removing walking from running challenges) that the majority of the people are asking for.
It's not because it's a minority of people wanting this (clearly the majority want a change), it's not because of a money issue (people are starting to cancel their memberships and nobody seems to care), It's not because it's hard to implement (it already existed before), it's not because theres no space for these challenges. The people who sign up to use this app do so to get in shape or improve etc.
So what is it then? Do you want to discourage people from being more active and healthy? Do you get some fetish from trolling the people here? You want to sabotage your own company? This doesn't make any sense.
Strava wants to cater to and be inclusive towards the ABSOLUTE lowest common denominator. However as we have experienced World wide, being inclusive really just means excluding a certain group of people.
@Alastair_S1D The very simple challenges which now exist can stay but why remove the other challenges?
Why not leave them there to exist for the people who liked to join them?
I want to know the reason why they were removed and why it is taking so long (if it will even happen) to bring them back. Does this need to go to congress with some unanimous vote that will take years to implement?
Why "cater" to people who like simple challenges? Are the majority of the users people who only want simple challenges? Do these people get annoyed if harder challenges exist?
None of it makes sense and it just seems like we are discouraged from getting more fit.
And yes I know I can still do the same exercises and have the same goals but I bet you can admit that you are probably less likely to achieve that goal if you are used to completing the usual badge which you had done in the past and now it no longer exists.
For years I would finish the monthly 200K running challenge but never attempt the 300K. This year in January I was actually planning on trying it out for the first time only to see it no longer exists.
