Unwanted pictures in my Strava feed

[KarlS]

Suddenly I'm getting lots of pictures in my feed from people I do not follow. Seems to be coming from clubs I am a member of. Almost exclusively pictures of bikes. Some days so many that it feels like real spam. Is there a way to filter these out or is quitting the clubs my only options?

[Jane · Accepted solution]

Hello @KarlS 

Thanks for posting about this.  We’re in the process of testing the experience of surfacing club member posts in the home feed. There’s currently no way to disable this, however, you are free to leave a club at any time if you don’t wish to be shown posts from its members.

We do appreciate you sharing your feedback with us, and I’ve passed your comments along to our Product team.

I hope that's helpful.  Please let us know if you have further questions.

[CycleBunny_Aus]

I’ve just starting experiencing this experiment… as tech developers why wouldn’t you pilot a major change like this to a small group of users and seek feedback. I’ve had to leave a lot of groups I follow and still can’t sort through the rubbish to see my friends and families activities. 

Reading these posts I can see that it was tested and disabled back in March and April so why is only popping up for me now? Has the experiment started again?

The subscription price is hiked up and now the app is pushing, essentially spam through our feeds… not a great user experience. 

[AKB]

I'm subsided to a lot of clubs and this has destroyed my feed. It's not turned off or disabled, as suggested in the thread. I can find activities of people I know because they've been buried by this random rubbish. 

I know you want more money from your advertisers, but forcing this on people is just wrong. You could at least just put some form of ad like content in, rather than club feed spam.

Telling people to leave the club is a terrible solution. 

[Jane · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Thanks to all of your for your follow up comments and feedback.  The experiment has been turned off as we consider the best way to surface club content in the feed.  

[Sander_Schulze]

Still receiving this trash from club members on my time line! Strava… think please think, what a crap am I receiving all the time! You say you stopped the “experiment”… well it’s still going on as of today! What a crap Strava, what is this doing for you? Money money money…. Yeah money money money? Please stop this bull **bleep**!!!!

[KarlS]

Is this some sort of a childish joke or what's going on? My feed is flooded with those idiotic bike pictures and selfies again!

[TC_89]

I'm still copping this rubbish in my feed. Once I've left a community group, I won't be rejoining it. Consider how detrimental that is for whatever you're trying to monetise and achieve here. If I want to see group details, I'll go looking for it. 

[Jane]

Hello @TC_89 

Thanks for letting us know Club posts are still appearing in your Feed.  We would be happy to look at your account and investigate what's going on.  Please submit a support ticket

[KarlS]

As of Sunday, 2 days after "the experiment has been turned off ", I'm still getting more of those pictures.

[thirdsun]

Same for me.