Strava makes activity feed non-chronological and launches blog posts for all users (+ video)

Petition signed and feedback left for all the good it will do.  As a premium subscriber I think I might go somewhere else when my subscription is up for renewal.

This is very annoying, they could at least let you change it back - even Facebook does allow a recent view. This is what happens when you hire ex-Instagram staff and the main social channels all copy each other's new features (look at banners, avatar shapes, tool bars) and now Strava want's to become a sporting Facebook rather than continuing it's niche well. 

I will continue logging my rides but not viewing feeds as much. Unfortunately only app uninstalls & canceling Pro subs would get their attention, change.org protests won't. I have left feedback on their survey hopefully more will too

Well That sucks, I like(d) the chronological ordering of Strava.  But for what I use it for, it won't change much for me.

I can bet some folk will complain with less kudos being dished out, I use it to track efforts and my own efforts against segments so don't care about that bit.  The competitive bit is good between mates but I know folk who will target segments if they lose their KOM's...

Strava needs to start doing a few more things than just fucking with the timeline chronology. They need to add the ability to remove pros from segment KOMs so you can see the amateurs that hold it.

They also need to add that if you change your FTP/THR then it doesnt go back and alter all your old rides/runs.

I think the time has come to ditch Strava. After getting on it from the early days (my athlete number is sub-5000) I used it because it had some handy features which have now been watered down, and the social aspect but now I have completely unknown people giving kudos for almost effortless rides.

The best thing about it nowadays is Veloviewer.
 

What a mess! Does anyone know if it will at least be possible to upload photos to an activity now (via the webpage on a PC, rather than on a smartphone)? I couldn't see any added functionality, but it is generally more difficult to see what is going on now withthe new look dashboard.

Of more interest to me are things like weather, average speed, elevation gained as a percentage of overall distance, suffer score if available.  This is what defines the ride to me, not whether someone was in a group, or stopped to take a pic.

In the meantime, chronological order was just fine.

If they wanted to include something useful, how about some sort of 'matched ride' feature, same as for running, so I can see how I did vs previous attempts.  Before anyone suggests that's what segments are for, that doesn't work if you are starting/finishing in your privacy zone.

Do not like

and then there will paid adverts in the feed

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Losing the chronological order seems illogical to me too. As for 'non-activity posts', well that can simply be got round by unfollowing said people, but is that what Strava want? If it ain't broke don't fix it, but I guess this is all being done with a view to enhancing future income...

There's a change org petition just now to have this returned to the prior more sensible layout.

Why is that 'social' apps think non-chronological feeds are a good idea. It's shit with Instagram and it'll be shit here. By all means allow people to filter themselves, but this blows. Hard.