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Strava adds location details in users’ activity feeds

The new feature means users don’t have to click on an activity and zoom out the map to work out the location

Strava has made updates to how locations are added to posts in users feeds, as well as improvements to the searching functionality on mobile phones.

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The route planning and activity recording app is adding location information to activity posts in users' feeds. The town or city where the activity took place is now being pulled and displayed next to the time and date of the activity in the feed.

2021 Strava update — BR Location in Feed

“GPS activities for athletes will now automatically pull location into the activity details making it easier for athletes to recognise where activities are in the world without having to click into the activity map and zoom out,” Strava says.

This update is said to make it easier for athletes to see where their friends, family and those they follow are exercising.

Non-GPS activities such as indoor workouts will not have a location pulled.

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Strava also recently improved its mobile activity search systems. Users can now find particular races or activities without scrolling through their feed.

2021 Strava update — FR Mobile Activity Search

Uploads can be searched by keywords or filtered by sport type, distance, time, elevation and date range.

With these new filters applied, users can also view how many activities they have completed in these areas.

This new searching function can be accessed by clicking through Training > Training Log > magnifying glass, or via Profile > Activities > magnifying glass.

What do you think of these recent updates? What other improvements would you like to see to the app?

www.strava.com

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Rapha Nadal | 3 years ago
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Yet another reason to triple check your privacy settings.

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JohnnyEnglish replied to Rapha Nadal | 3 years ago
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Rapha Nadal wrote:

Yet another reason to triple check your privacy settings.

Thats not how I would see it. There is little point in having Strava unless you want to record your route and this just presents that same information in the ride summary.

For better privacy in Strava, I would suggest not allowing others to see any of your activity.

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scaredyslug replied to Rapha Nadal | 3 years ago
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Struggling to understand here, why would you be worried about sharing your location on a location sharing/saving app? Surely this makes 0 sense.

Obviously if you are private in the first place it wouldn't affect you no?

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mdavidford | 3 years ago
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Non-GPS activities such as indoor workouts will not have a location pulled.

Does this include virtual rides on real-life routes? Because that's about the only place I can see this actually being useful/interesting to me, given that 99.99% of my real-world rides will be from/to home.

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EddyBerckx replied to mdavidford | 3 years ago
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mdavidford wrote:

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Non-GPS activities such as indoor workouts will not have a location pulled.

Does this include virtual rides on real-life routes? Because that's about the only place I can see this actually being useful/interesting to me, given that 99.99% of my real-world rides will be from/to home.

This is not for you though, it's for any followers to see where you've ridden (more for when you're on holiday I suppose).

Slightly niche but definitely useful. 

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mdavidford replied to EddyBerckx | 3 years ago
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If it's not for me, why would they put it in the Training Log?  As far as I'm aware, I'm the only one who can see that view.

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With these new filters applied, users can also view how many activities they have completed in these areas.

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bertisfantastic | 3 years ago
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This will be great for all the national and international travel I'm not doing at the mo

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