New Strava Features Announced: Woah...Finally.

Strava has just announced a slate of updates at their annual Camp Strava event, where they show off a bunch of newness. This years event is the first time new CEO, Michael Martin, is at the helm, after starting back January - and he appears very keen to say ‘there’s a new sheriff in town’. And I’ll give them credit, their little 82 second teaser video is hilariously well done - it’s simply their CEO sitting there, reading mean social media comments…and agreeing to them!

In total, there’s a slate of things coming, some more concrete - and some a bit more fuzzy. Here’s the quick-hit list, and then I’ll dive into the nuances a bit more down below:

- Adding new family plan for up to four family or friends in a group (except, the pricing is TBD)
- Adding mobile app ‘Dark Mode’
- Adding night heat maps to show which routes are better/safer for night workouts
- Adding new quick edit feature to edit workout details
- Adding new "Athlete Intelligence" feedback, akin to basic coaching feedback on activities
- Adding "AI-Enabled Leaderboard Integrity” to sniff out improbable uploads

All of these things are coming from what Strava says is a revamped development process within the company, with them specifically saying its using an "updated design system, an initiative that is integral in driving a heightened pace of product innovation at the company."

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[jamesinrok]

But what i really need is “should be at work mode” which hides the time of my activities so i cannot get fired 🤣

[Mdgfievf]

They need to make the privacy settings dependent on type of exercise.
I don’t want my gym sessions public and no one cares - enable us to just make gym or any other specific exercise automatically go private while say something like running can stay public

[ЛёхаБукреев]

5:15 - agree. I do the same for years already: All private by default. And after uploading photos, giving name, description, cutting the track if needed - i open it for everyone.

[AntonPietersen]

I would REALLY love to see Strava have their own version of "Training Plans", where Strava can plan your workouts for you depending on your current workload, fatigue and fitness levels etc. and recommend a daily workout for you and added to daily workout planner. The workout should then be pushed and sync to local device to be used onto your preferred platform, like Suunto, Garmin or Yahoo for example. Perhaps something that is customizable depending what your goals are etc.

[rednal]

"They don't actually know what is going to cost yet". Big throwback to one of the greatest DCR videos ever about Strava not knowing their own prices. Ever. 😅

The account sharing also reminds me from what Netflix did and encouraged years ago. Let's hope it's not their tactic to lure people in and screw them the same way by not allowing sharing anymore somewhere in the future.

[alanreymercado]

how about mimicking the same type of run/bike thats being imported from garmin? ie if its interval it should be shown as an interval and not just a single run.

[wizzle-]

Woah. DC is clearly excited/amped up and animating/gesturing/moving like never before. Such enthusiasm.

[theformerbuttler]

Wow. I might actually come back to Strava. Nice to see a new CEO actually care about what the users want

[danieljones]

Friends privacy circle, so when friends meet up and ride from their house it also starts their start location, rather than having to remind people NOT to start and end their Garmin at your house. There, said it.

[Iseeyouatyouseeme]

As a software engineer it's crazy that dark mode is a big feature. Some android phones can do this like 80% fine automatically when Strava hasn't even implemented it yet.

[tarmaccio]

To be fair i'm liking the recent changes strava did to their iOS app visually. It's getting there. I'd love strava to bump up their training analysis game to a level of Trainingpeaks or so so it's a one stop shop for all things sport related

[DominikLoeffler]

Dark mode! Wow, finally Strava has arrived in modern times. So much campaigning went into this

[kendallpeacock]

All I wanted was to add two or more shoes to a run!

[NathanBudd]

Waiting patiently for... "We've added these features! Also... price increase."

[aviationbased]

Segments on the Apple Watch like Garmin has please!!! It’s all I want in life!

[Papa-Bogey]

Three things come to mind:

1) are your three friends Des, Shane, and The Girl?
2) has someone convinced Strava there is a difference between rounding and truncation?
3) a somewhat tech-savvy company has trouble with Livestream?

Thanks as always for a great vid.

[patrickflanagan]

As an older rider, bring on Age. Group KOMs please

[wavesnowaves]

I would love vo2max calculations/algorithms. Am not sure about the fitness score ..

[diverg]

Awesome they’ll finally sort the KOM’s out! So many „finished the ride in my car” KOM’s out there it takes the edge off some of the fun. Also I’d say HR should be mandatory in order to even be allowed to compete!

[dk]

How this took so long for them to acknowledge let alone implement is mind boggling.