It is already a sausage fest though. Must be 90% dudes.
Agree the missing 800 PR is blatant discrimination. Although to be fair, I think they are appealing to the bearded long-short-wearing ultra dorks in the 9min mile range.
They’re already doing too much in the way of social-y development. They don’t allow pics, gifs, or videos in comments yet they allow you to “hide” someone from your feed. Why on earth would you need to do that when you can simply unfollow? If they add in DMs, I’m probably reverting to using only Garmin Connect. DMs are what other platforms use to ramp up engagement and at least so far Strava has steered away from that sort of nonsense behavior. Anyone I’d want to DM I can just text or email. If you don’t have that accessibility for your friends or training partners then why the hell not? Is it because they don’t care to allow you direct communication access?
I'm not gonna lie, Strava needs to add Direct Messages/DMs to its app. The app would be so much better because coaches can directly communicate with their athletes and it can also turn into a dating app for runners/cyclists, so we wouldn't have to use Instagram or any other social media to find runners. I feel like Strava is the only social media I will ever keep and its the only app I will use for my workouts.
Think everyone has already nailed the obvious problems of this.
Maybe they could integrate some sort of coaching platform like training peaks that wouldn't take users off-site.
I think they should compile a list of road races in an easy to search data base. It's easy enough to find someone who did a race you're gonna do but it would be nice if they just had that data there for you to pour through. & then the search function for segments if you're looking for a route in a new place. The number of times I've typed in city/state & get the most random suggestions just isn't it.
Awful idea. Its bad enough getting unwanted dms from guys on other social media without having to disable them on Strava. Its obviously never occurred to some of the nerds on this board that if there were dms allowed on Strava, women might want to talk to other women on it but not receive messages from random guys.
I actually received a dm on an obsolete sm platform following a second place in the womens' field in a 5k. It was from a guy had also raced in the 5k and noticed me (I had noticed him and avoided him as he seemed overly chatty) and then the kicker line "I'd love to run a 10k, but I'm unsure whether this body can cope with it this year".
Collect the weirdest and most socially awkward people on one website (besides letsrun), then allow the men to harass the women via private messages. What could possibly go wrong?
All they need to do is only enable DMs if both parties follow the other. That would stop some rando that follows a pro athlete from DMing them unless that pro athlete followed them as well.
All they need to do is only enable DMs if both parties follow the other. That would stop some rando that follows a pro athlete from DMing them unless that pro athlete followed them as well.
I understand why DMs would be harmful, but why don't we just add a feature allowing DMs only from followers on Strava and the female runner could make her account private so that creeper would have to follow her in order to DM her and then she could just block him and you can't do anything after that.
Just make DM by invitation only, at least optionally. The feature would still be valuable and no need to block strangers because they would be able to use it.
I understand why DMs would be harmful, but why don't we just add a feature allowing DMs only from followers on Strava and the female runner could make her account private so that creeper would have to follow her in order to DM her and then she could just block him and you can't do anything after that.
Just make DM by invitation only, at least optionally. The feature would still be valuable and no need to block strangers because they would be able to use it.
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