Strava

This. It's kinda scary that you can make one stupid mistake and thousands of people jump on the bandwagon.
If he thought he was being bullied before, can't imagine the new limelight will be much fun.

No.......

There is a guy who may well be living in my building on City Road by the looks of where his rides start/end. He has over 600 KOMS, most of which seem to be around Central London. Far from middle of nowhere.
I took one of his KOMs a while ago and after reading this checked my other 3, sure enough he has begun to attack one of them in the last month.
This for me is actually what i thought the point of Strava was. I love that we have a competition going but have never met.

Targeting each one? That sounds like a chain attack to me :(((

ch-ch-ch-chaaain-attackkk

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How many resumes!?

Is that a stat I can lift from a strava panel?
He ‘stole’ 13 KOMS on that ride, 2hr20 with 2hr 3 moving for 36km total.
Ok maybee he’s trying a touch too hard to grab these. Oh the torment his adversaries must be going through.

It was tongue in cheek. I also thought it was yours.
In honesty I do this sort of thing when I'm interval training both running and cycling.

what the actual fuck, Strava?

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What is it with these goons? That's four sites/apps I regularly use that have fucked up their experience by going for an algorithmic feed rather than a chronological one.

Because you are not their target group commercial wise.

They want to underline once again that you are the product, not the customer, probably :-/

I'd gladly pay for premium if it would mean a clean, chronological feed and the option to filter out bullshit posts like who joined what challenge or club

Thanks for bringing the surveymonkey to my attention. I have vented my feedback too.

My feedback:

It's a negative change. Many activities have the same name: 'morning ride' etc, so it's really hard to see if I've seen something before.
Activities I might not seem 'interested' in to the algorithm, could still be interesting to me, and activities with many kudos or comments may not be interesting to me.
The whole implementation solves a problem that doesn't exist, and ignores great potential features, like filtering the feed to ignore commutes, indoor rides, runs etc.

I get why companies who use advertising a lot might use algorithmic feeds (though still fucking hate them), but why strava do it, I have no idea. Chronological feeds made sense and worked well on all these platforms, so annoying.

Here's my feedback (in an algorithmic order rather than chronological order):-

algorithmic as can't do done dont feed follow have I I i if like normally out people rides the the they work.

#rep

Nothing on the new web interface? It’s going to take some getting used to I think.

I prefer it. Mainly because my profile page is no longer plastered with Zwift screenshots.

Why must three people that have no connection to me at all Kudos'd my ride to work? There is no need for it.

but why strava do it, I have no idea

because they're trying to pivot to being more a social network. Also algorithmic feeds never end, so when the adverts come you will keep scrolling and see more adverts, rather than getting to the end of the day and stopping.

Basically just look at how Instagram has gone to shit, that's exactly what they're doing, they even hired an ex high-up Instagrammer.

Weird that the current slogan is athletes unfiltered given the algorithm move...
#Stolen

hate the new UI, will use it even less if at all now.

Yeah, I used to browse through things, now I can't see what the latest rides done were so I don't bother trying to dig through but it doesn't matter enough. They're shooting themselves in the foot.

and so it beings

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I just got auto-followed by someone with a Russian website link. I thought I had to accept follow requests. Anyone else with the same issues?