These are the dumbest notifications I have ever seen! Anyone needed an app to pat them on the back for riding a bike, needs more help than an app is going to provide. I just started back riding again and I want this crap turned off! Strava, if you don’t provide a way to do so, I’ll cancel my subscription and stick with Ride with GPS. Geese no wonder this world is such a puss!

Still get the crap with everything shut off!! If I keep getting them in april I will say goodbye to strava!!!! 

not funny!!

The motivational messages are utter crap and you should let user to turn them off completely. Who even requested such a silly feature?

An App that infantilizes its users b sending inane messages is two clicks away from being deleted. Don’t be that App, Strava.

Best comparison in this thread. Congratulations, you're earning kudos from fellow toddlers, like me

This is not a solution. Can you please allow this to be disabled for individuals. 

Hi @Jane11  

It’s incredibly disappointing that despite over three months and numerous complaints (80+ in this thread) about the KUDOS notifications, there’s been no resolution. This feature should have been addressed promptly. We need a concrete update on when this issue will finally be resolved. It’s time for Strava to prioritize the user experience and provide a solution to this ongoing frustration.

Since a November 2023 Strava is at it again with pushing "features" down your throat. Now among the notifications for an activity I have to read Strava's stupid "motivational" messages (you're doing great, keep at it, da da da). Anyone can help me get rid of those?

There is a topic already with 625 thumbs up regarding this issue, with a useless "solution" to disable notifications all together.

Obviously strava team doesn't read or care about topics with "solution" provided, regardless how many "thumb up" it received, so it forces us to get their attention by starting new topics for the same issue. 

Obviously, this is not working. Strava team doesn't read "answered" topics. And having over 600 thumb up means nothing.

So, the only solution is if everyone who participated in this topic would start a new topic. Let's flood it with this issue, perhaps that would get their attention. I'll start first

Please stop the motivation kudos. Everyone who reads this. Please start a new comment, thread, and let us flood them with request to change this feature to being optional!

Yes I second that!

It’s incredibly disappointing that despite over three months and numerous complaints (100+) about the KUDOS notifications, there’s been no resolution. This feature should have been addressed promptly. We need a concrete update on when this issue will finally be resolved. It’s time for Strava to prioritize the user experience and provide a solution to this ongoing frustration.

How would it know to notify you if it failed to upload?  It is not uncommon for an activity to not automatically sync from a watch or other device for whatever reason (lack of wifi or cell service, etc...).  There is no way for something like Strava to know that something was not sent to them in the first place.  The only way the user would realize it would be to go back into their account and double check after every activity just to make sure it loaded.  It was nice to get the simple "your activity was uploaded" or whatever it was (you could toggle the notifications on or off if you wanted it, so no harm if you preferred to not get them).  Those I feel were good and fine, especially since you could turn off the notifications if you chose to not want them.  These "new" childishly motivating ones are super annoying.

Wow! How can somebody (here - Strava) be so stubborn and deaf to their customers' feedback? The "motivational" notifications are insulting, useless and distracting. Please make them optional or just get rid of them altogether - nobody will miss them.

I have left Strava after 11 years and moved to Ride with GPS. I have canceled my paid subscription and am now on the free version so while my friends still on Strava and see my rides. I have disabled all notification, and removed access to all apps.  Ow when I ride, I post on RGPS, then RGPS will update my friends on Strava. 

I would also like to add my voice to those who find the in-app “motivational” notifications annoying.  There needs to be a way to disable these. 

I think you misunderstood the original question. We need to be able to opt out of motivational messages spam.

Hi Jane. Can you share anything about the team's plans to do (or not do) anything about this? I can't imagine anybody being positively impacted by having their notification list filled/cluttered with this computer- generated (and therefore disingenuous/fake) "encouragement".

I don't really use the social features of Strava, so when somebody does occasionally give me kudos/comment, I'm quite keen to return the favour so that I don't appear rude. Because I typically ignore what others are doing on here by default, I won't know if I don't see the notification.

These automated messages have destroyed my ability to see when I've got something I feel ought to respond to. They're also "training" me out of checking notifications, which can only have a negative impact on the "stickiness" of Strava, as it will reduce the number of interactions less active users have with fellow riders.

On a more personal note, I'm just returning to cycling after a long injury, so I'd let my subscription lapse. I can't see myself paying for it again if I keep having to read this patronising automated messaging. I'd recommend that you disable it, but presumably its impact has been A/B tested? Who knows what you'll have found there, but please, give those of us for whom it's highly irritating a way out. Cheers.

At a minimum give users option to disable it entirely both from push notifications and notifications in STRAVA app, so it's not commingled with actual kudos/comments from other users.

It's a useless spam.

No one is motivated by a bot notification!  Strava should eliminate these incredibly annoying messages!

@Jane11any updates on this?

This is not a solution. 

Anyone from Strava actually reading these comments by people paying your wages? Nobody wants these stupid messages EVERY activity, no matter how frequent or how insignificant the activity might be. Longest ever walk/hike/ride deserves a WOW!! Your great!! But maybe not a gentle stroke in the park. You are clearly upsetting a lot of users for the sake of a SIMPLE TICK BOX “Disable Motivational Messages”…..how hard can it be? 

I don't like that I don't know what activity is uploaded when I see this puppy-sweety notification - is it run, swim, gym or bike? As a triathlete is anoying for me. Before I could see what kind of activity was uploaded and because of some device errors I could easy fix problems. Now I have to check everything directly in Strava. But I think that was the reason of this new notification - to open Strava app and waste more time there.

Dear Jane @strava64 - please listen to your members, i like many do not like your patronising in-App Kudos, please turn this off or risk losing another paying subscriber.   

"While this cannot be completely disabled, you do have the ability to disable the push notification."

Why not? When I take a bike ride, (often including several parts), the app on my phone logs it - and each time I Save, it has always uploaded that "activity" within a few minutes to your system. Then, the next time that I open the app, I discover that I have a load of (overexcited) auto notifications.

I appreciate that some people, with different device setups, might find the notifications useful, if their activities don't always upload - but they are literally an irritation to me. How are they benefiting you and your users - especially given that the push ones can be turned off, so it can't be to get people to open the app more often? Why are you determined to keep them compulsory?