01-18-2024 05:25 PM - last edited on 03-18-2024 06:20 AM by Jane
I’m now seeing the “Your Weekly Snapshot” at the top of my feed when using the app. I do not enjoy how this serves almost entirely to make me feel bad about my effort so far in the current week. This is detrimental to my experience on Strava.
My training schedule each week is highly variable due to plenty of factors such as work, personal commitments, weather, etc. I should not have to see a feature telling me I haven’t been working as hard when I have been putting in more or the same amount of effort as my schedule allows.
Please enable a toggle for this feature so we do not have to see it.
03-17-2024 12:41 AM
They compare your previous and current weeks. Up-triangle? You're doing better. Plenty of psychology studies show the harmful effects in brain chemistry from gamification (to put it succinctly). I suspect it the feature is aimed at their competitive/pro users, so they should offer a simple way to opt out for those of us who see it as detrimental.
03-17-2024 12:53 AM
Thank you! I agree there is no real added value in the snapshot, especially as one can assess progress simply by reviewing past activities.
03-15-2024 04:53 PM
This is an unhelpful feature, please give us an option to remove it.
03-15-2024 03:31 PM
👎🏼 stop promoting overtraining and unhealthy fitness periodization. Horrible feature and irresponsible design.
03-27-2024 08:02 AM
Agree with this -- that it's an irresponsible feature and unhealthy conglomeration of what "fitness" or "wellness" looks like.
03-15-2024 11:45 AM
I agree it’s very annoying and needs to be removed!
03-15-2024 04:56 AM
Joining the petition to remove this feature or make it optional. Strong dislike.
03-14-2024 11:26 PM
This feature appeared for me in the last few days. I don’t like it, it doesn’t motivate me (the opposite in fact) and I’d like the option to switch it off.
03-14-2024 01:14 PM
UPDATE: I’m going to a shakeout run for the LA Marathon and I’ve been told Strava will be there. So I’m going to ask their reps about this and see if we can’t get this moving for the good of all runners everywhere.
03-17-2024 12:44 AM
Thank you! If you could post an update here summarizing your experience (doubt you'll find anyone outside of marketing there) we'd be appreciative!
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