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It's 2022 and most apps have Dark Mode nowadays. It might be a bit weird to use Strava when not working out... But looking at the segments the night before to plan out the next run is a thing. Please make us literally lose less sleep when doing this, or when recording an activity in the evening. This has consistently been the top request on reddit.com/r/strava Reposted from features chat board to request board Moderator Edit: Find the latest response on this topic from our Product Team here. ... View more

Hi all, Southern part of Turkey was hit 2 huge earthquakes at 6th of February. 10 cities were demolished, till now, more than 18k people died. Support and donations are very critical for re-building the life at disaster area. You are a very popular app. among all cyclists and runners in Turkey. Would you like to consider creating a donation challenge for disaster victims? First thing comes to my mind, $1 donation per kilometer for this challenge. Each penny will help 🙏                   Moderator's Edit:  The Challenge is now live and runs from February 17 to March 2. More details can be found here Thank you to @berkay_benli for submitting this idea and everyone who voted for it and left comments of support.  ... View more

Unicycling is vastly different from regular cycling as the speed in general is much lower on a unicycle. Thus the resulting data gathered from an activity on a unicycle is not comparable to a normal ride.  ... View more

Hi, I'm looking for a way to have these statistics included with my runs on strava. I use strava to record my running and view statistics which is great. First I started using the strava Apple Watch app but it didn't include these extra statistics. I know for example Garmin watches can sync these data to strava running activities, but don't want to buy a new watch and wondered if this is also possible with my Apple Watch. I found out that the workout app on iOS 16.1 and Apple Watch 9.1 includes this data, but not all data is synced to strava . Is this already on the roadmap or hopefully a good idea to add :)? Kind regards Martijn ... View more

I’d love if you’d split the sport of Nordic Ski into the sports of Skate Skiing and Classic. They are very different sports and many people do both based on varying conditions. Thanks! ... View more

I would love to be able to have different shoes set as my default for walking vs. running, as well as a different default bike for road vs. MTB.  I often forget to change which shoes/bike I did what on, then that messes up my milage tracking (for when to change shoes or tires/tyres). Moderator's Edit: we are excited to announce that we launched default gear by sport on May 9, 2023. Now, you can set default shoes and bikes for different foot and cycle activities! We appreciate any and all feedback on this feature so feel free to continue to leave comments in this thread. However, if you have additional suggestions we invite you to submit a new idea. For more info on how to do this, please click here.  ... View more

When looking at your last 3 month graph in your profile and you've had an injury, it just looks like you haven’t done anything. Add a little Cross icon to the timeline when injured. You can even take it as far as suggesting remedies and care to speed up the recovery process. ... View more

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.  ... View more

Hi, it'd be nice to see Padel as a new activity type 🙂 It's pretty popular in the world and would match racquet sports that has been added recently (thank you for that!): According to the FIP (International Padel Federation), over 25 million people play padel in over 90 countries around the world. Thanks ... View more

Edit from the Moderation Team: Here are other similar ideas you may want to vote/comment on, too: Limit how many Clubs a single user can join to reduce "club spamming" Expand/Collapse feed activities by athlete Enable Muted activities on web Mute as Default option ... View more

Offer a level of subscription that can work for two or more people who are part of the same family. People are unlikely to buy two subscriptions, but might purchase a slightly higher priced one if 2 or more people could use it.  ... View more

Or at least include a toggle so we can turn it off if we wish. ... View more

Jumping rope is not just a warmup it is a great sport and activity in itself. There are even official organizations such as the Amateur Athletic Union with long established rules and regulations https://image.aausports.org/handbooks/jump_rope/JumpRope.pdf. There are exhibitions, teams, leagues, singles competitions, team competitions, national and international competitions; everything that you would expect an official sport to have. It has observer status at the Global Association of International Sports Federation and been recognized as a sport by half the countries needed to become an official Olympic sport. Is Jump Rope a Sport? - Here's What to Know | Elite SRS I'm pretty sure there is no international association of stair stepers and that is supported in Strava so why not jump rope? ... View more

Segments are a big feature of Strava and I think everything should be done to keep them as legit as possible. However I often see people riding ebikes but don't know/care about setting the correct type of their activity once uploaded. Since it defaults to classic bike (non assisted), it leads to pollution of the leaderboards with performances achieved only thanks to the assistance.  To address this issue I suggest the following :   Make segment leaderboards accessible only to rides with a selected "gear" (bike) Make ebike an option of the gear setup : it is either an ebike or it is not. No one seriously rides an ebike with the motor turned off 100% of the time, setting it per-ride makes no sense. Use the ebike (on or off) flag of the selected gear (bike) to set the correct activity type upon upload (bike or ebike).  If the gear is changed on an existing activity, flag it accordingly (ebike or regular). If the user want's to change an existing gear from "ebike" to "classic bike", at least ask for a solid confirmation as this is most likely someone trying to be outsmart the system... The idea behind this is to not rely on the user's good will to set the correct activity type for each upload. It would make things automatic, given the initial action of creating the gear. If none is selected/created, then we can assume that the user does not care that much about performance, and has no interest in leaderboards anyways. In the end both ebikes and regular bikes segment leaderboards would make more sense to people who actually care about them, without making things any harder for users. P.S I have nothing against ebikes, they're fantastic but deserve their own separate leaderboards as in any bike race allowing both types of bikes ! ... View more

Please add the function to flag activities from the mobile app.  It is inconvenient that it is only available from the web version of Strava.  It's a simple feature, so not sure why it hasn't been added to the app previously.  It was requested repeatedly through the previous feedback forum. ... View more

I would love to see Flybys also integrated in the STRAVA app. I guess the app is the most used interface to the STRAVA data. Everyone has their mobile phone always available. Wouldn't it be great if I could check my flybys quickly and without a computer while I'm on the road? ... View more

Hi,   It would be great to have free diving and scuba diving sports into Strava, in a similar manner to what Garmin Connect allows.    At the moment, I am using a Garmin Descent 1 and activated the synchronization between Garmin Connect and Strava, but every time I go Scuba Diving or Free-diving, Strava recognizes it as Swimming. Which is normal because it does not support underwater sports.   In summary, it would be great to have the following features in Strava: 1. Free-diving as a sport in Strava 2. Scuba Diving as a sport in Strava.  3. Allow the interface to get the data for Free-diving or scuba-diving sessions from Garmin Connect, recognizing the session features (depth, time underwater, etc.)   Thanks! Fran ... View more

It almost never fails that the top few spots on every cycling challenge leaderboard are held by people whose profiles are private, and the number of miles or the amount of elevation these people claim to have ridden are almost impossible to believe. Having your profile public so that everyone can see your activities and have the opportunity to flag them should be a requirement to particiapte in the monthly challenges.  ... View more

To me Strava is primarily about motivation and KOM gongs/trophies are a big part of this. As you get older it gets harder to compete for overall KOM/QOM gongs. So it would be good to have age group gongs, i.e. top 10 in age group. ... View more