Strava Community Hub

Badges and Camp Titles are cool, don't get me wrong! But some of the community ideas and contributions may actually make future Strava even more user-centric and awesome. Therefore, I think it would be sensible to reward Strava Community Hub members with Strava Premium features 🙂  ... View more

I participate to a 10K in my city. Some advertisement were done on Strava before the race (you needed to be in the race club), and after (when the photos gallery and ending video were available). This was a very nice experience and in the aftermath, I was wondering how this could be improved. My suggestion would be to offer race's organiser a convenient way to  make a simple synthetic report of the race. (like the individual yearly Strava report, but focused on the race) The reason for this is that sharing kudo, thought about the race,  etc ...with people you run with during a race is part of the race  and sometime a more pleasant one  ! Some basic statistics, like the fastest km, the slowest km (on average), or colored GPS trace by average pace. Number of PR recorded could help follow up discussion between athletes in the comment... Being a pacer (40'), I was also curious to know if I helped some of my fellow runners to achieve their goal. I guess I did based on a simple histogram of the final time, plus the number of mention to PR in the title of the activity, but a list of athlete who did achieve their PR, would have helped me to give some kudo to them. Last but not the least, these insights could help next year runners to get prepared for the race and organiser to promote the race. ... View more

Crown Jewel = You already have the K/QOM, and clock a faster effort than the current 2nd place athlete. Sure, this may be the most ego-centric thing I've posted... Ever. But here we are. Currently, I have a KOM. When I bust *ss on the segment to try and beat my time, but come in a second or two slow --- but still faster than #2 on the leaderboard --- I get nothing. Maybe some kind of "Jewel" for my crown? All I'm asking for is public validation that I'm still working hard out there and not just resting on my laurels. ... View more

Would be nice to add categorized climbs to the app and have a way to track which ones you have already done. The user profile should list all successful climbs, include stats about the climb and the respective run / hike / ride. Ideally users should be able to compare their individual attempts of the climb, similar to the matched rides features. There should be a climb search that includes location, total ascent height, average and maximum inclination, etc. Each climb should feature leaderboards similar to segments. When using navigation the mode could change during a climb, showing more details about whats ahead - for example inclination profile, distance / height remaining to the top, data from other athletes attempts. Think live segments for climbs. Why is that useful? * athletes can easily search for challenges from within the app without consulting 3rd party websites * motivates athletes to explore new areas in their surroundings * collecting achievements is probably one of the biggest motivators for strava users * comparing different individual attempts of the climb give the athletes a great resource to track training progression  * competition is fun, who can do the most climbs, who is the fastest   ... View more

I think it would be great for Strava to add a trophy room into the app so athletes can see all of their trophies in a display case.  What is it? The Trophy Room is a virtual representation of all the trophies, medals, and races that an athlete has collected over many years of activity. the trophy room includes a huge display case so that all the virtual trophies, crowns, and marathon medals are displayed. Why is it important? This is important because athletes generally keep all their real-world medals in one location. This would create a virtual component of all medals and allow athletes to explore the trophy room virtually. It is important because athletes like to share it with their childre, family, and friends to motivate them to play sports.  How does it work?  I think there can be different versions of the trophy room. The current trophy case in the app is 2D. V1: can just be through the app so we see all the trophies and medals on a table, display case, or wall in 3D. We can move around the trophy room by zooming in and out on the screen like Google Maps. We can move around.  V1 is like Super Smash Bros Melee trophy room with thousands of trophies.  V2: Everything like V1 but also allows customization. Moving trophies around. Buying new display cases or tables to fit everything in the virtual room. V3: Everything like V1/V2, but includes AR tech to allow you to put your trophy room in the real world of your home with camera.  V4: Everything like V1/V2/V3, but also allows you to visit the trophy room with virtual reality glasses.  ... View more

I love having my distance PBs, however I have two suggestions that would make it better: 1) Seasons best. Or best so far this year. This would add motivation because some PBs are hard to match! 2) Access to lists of fastest times, not just PBs. Like almost a spreadsheet of sorts. 3) Easier access to PBs in other distances, such as 10 mile, 15km, 20km etc. ... View more

No GPS-device or running pod is 100 % accurate in measuring distance covered. Please add a sensitity margin to estimated running bests detection, such that efforts that are marginally shorter than the reference distances count as PB.  It is really annoying if you PB in a, say, 5 km race or trial, ending up with a recorded distance of 4.99 km. This difference is well within the error margin of any GPS-watch or running pod, see Fellrnr's excellent research documentation: https://fellrnr.com/wiki/GPS_Accuracy-statistics. Yet, given the hard cutoff Strava is currently using, this effort is not detected as estimated 5 km run best. Even if we assume that 4.99 km is indeed the true distance covered, it is odd to assume that I could not have run the additional 10 meters at approximately the same speed. Given the evidence, 2 % seems a reasonable and still very conservative sensitity margin, that is, any difference to the reference distance that falls within this margin should be ignored. For example, for the estimated 5 km best, any effort of 5. km x .98 = 4.90 km up to 5.00 km counts. There are two methods to proceed: (1) Let the recorded time count as PB as it is. Or (2) take the average speed of the slightly short effort to scale the time linearly up. The difference between the two methods should be small (given the sensitivity margin is small), but in my opinion the second method is fairer. In any case, given that the running bests are "estimated" anyway, both should be okay. ... View more

  eg did I beat my prev 2nd best time by 1s or 2m30? And how far off my current PB was I? Also can we have a new badge to show an EQUALED achievement.   Because if you equal your PB ONCE you are awarded a 2nd place badge.  3 Times you get a 3rd. I don’t like that!  Hence would like to see an EQUALLED badge to retain your 2nd best and 3rd best times. thank you !! ... View more

When achieving a PR, add 'You are up x places' -> Calculating: my current place on the leaderboard minus my place before the effort, if any ... View more

I have some personal records on treadmill, it would be cool if strava could keep track on those as well. It's so disheartening not getting a PR there when you worked really hard! Also, my watch doesn't keep them for me, so now I just have to remember them.  ... View more

hello, at the moment it is not possible to share on IG stories Strava records/crowns/personal best . The only sharing activity is on IG dm which I think quite useless. I guess this option would be very nice to have! can someone develop this??? ... View more

Strava propose actually 2 maps : "Standard map" and "Satellite map". It could be interesting, i think, to have a third map on Strava. The "KOM Map". This idea consists to see all the segment with a specific color about the map where a cyclist hold KOM. I know a Professional Cyclist, retired from sports, which holds enormously KOM where he lives. Thanks ... View more

This activity,  specifically this segment  is a loop, there are other segments that are multiple laps of the park, like this 8-laps of fury, but it would be cool if Strava automagically counted laps of segments during a single activity and broke down your paces, lap times, and kept track of who has the most laps, fastest laps, etc.  ... View more

From KOM leaderboards, add filter for Pros and  efforts during big UCI races so normal training efforts stand a chance. ... View more

Pilates is not the same as yoga so it should be added as a separate qualifying activity for challenges, especially for challenges specifically created by Strava.  ... View more

What if we could see our current achievments on the map with colors?  For example, KOM segment may be highlighted with "gold" color 🙂 Was inspired from rider Kat Gurenkova who takes almost all the segments with QOM. Thanks for your work! ... View more

Strava athletes are safer with fewer cars on the road and many cities have underused robust public transport systems. As Strava is a strong social media tool for many people, it could be used to encourage public transportation in a non-shaming way. You could post your bus rides (including walk to bus, bus ride, walk from bus to destination) and receive awards for most efficient ride, most dedicated/persistent bus rider, etc. If the app partnered with a city's bus system it could also suggest better routes or paths to the bus station. ... View more

In the end of year video showing all your efforts. What about showing the most attempted segments in your area was? Even if you didn't try them, could be a positive way to try new routes/ areas? Or suggest what the most attempted segment in your country was? ... View more

I spend a lot of time cleaning up local leaderboards whenever I see a segment effort that is obviously impossible for some reason. In almost every case it involves someone who forgot to turn off their computer after a ride and then recorded their drive home. These rides are always easy to spot because they have 4 things in common. 1) There will be a time gap in the ride while the rider loads their bike onto the car. 2) There will be a major increase in average speed immediately after the time gap. 3) There will usually be a max speed after the time gap that would be impossible to achieve on a bike. 4) The ride begins and ends in different locations. In most but not all of these cases, there will also be a substantial difference between elapsed time and moving time. I assume that these are innocent mistakes, but these mistakes frequently mean someone loses a hard earned KOM. In most cases it is easy to identify and flag these rides and restore the KOM to its rightful owner.  One thing I have discovered is that the majority of these mistakes are made over and over again by the same handful of repeat offenders. I can identify 5 or 6 individuals in my community who are responsible for the majority of these cases. There are certain segments where I've flagged a dozen or more efforts by the same rider for the same reason. I have run up against the flagging limit just trying to get rid of all the bad efforts by a single rider on a single segment. This is time consuming and very frustrating. There should be an easier way to deal with this problem.  My suggestion is for Strava to identify the riders who are most often guilty of this and remove all of their efforts from the leaderboard for the segment in question. Any time that 2 or more efforts are flagged for the same reason on a given segment, all of the efforts for that rider should be removed from the leaderboard. If multiple segments are involved, then all efforts on those segments should be removed. Hopefully this would serve as a reminder to these repeat offenders to remember to turn off their devices at the end of each ride.  ... View more