I’m still on Strava, but only just.
My renewal isn’t until July and I’ve been a paid member since 2013 (very similar to TrainerRoad coincidentally).
I use VeloViewer to lightly analyse my rides, but mostly to see my Explorer score and the Tile hunting is rather addictive, and it links to Strava to help plan those rides.
I’m waiting to see if VeloViewer is permitted. If not then I’m out.
Care to share more about tile hunting? Is this like covering every piece of a map by riding?
Strava found some absolute gem rides for me I think it’s great.
For the most complete overview of what you can do
For my personal viewpoint. I’m not fit enough to be troubling any leaderboards on Strava, although it’s nice to see personal improvement. VeloViewer allows me to see where I’ve cycled and also where I haven’t. It divides the map into smaller squares called tiles and records when you’ve visited each tile. There’s a competition about how big is your maximum square of tiles visited, and total tiles visited, and all sorts of other ways of looking at your data like calculating your Eddington number (have you ridden 40 miles 40 times, or 53 miles 53 times etc)
So I can’t go fast but I can explore, and VeloViewer is a great way to map this.
I dont ride with power outside either but one ride without any TR activity associated still got the TSS sent to TR and another with a TR activity associated besides TSS also had the progression level increased.
So I guess its always usefull to get all thoses rides coming from Strava or directly from wahoo or garmin.
I’m still there (Strava). My subscription runs till mid next year I think and I quite like the social interaction. I might re evaluate if it upsets my velo viewer explorer but as I said I quite like the social interaction, especially as I live alone.
I think a lot of us could easily leave Strava because of our personal use cases, but as someone active on the “ride outside thread”, I feel like I follow a lot of your social riding activities, and I absolutely think you’re the kind of person who benefits from “the Facebook of cycling”. If I were in your shoes, I would definitely be staying.
I realize this may change soon with all the current Strava drama, but is VeloViewer free to see tiles? This concept really appeals to me, and I know VV has a paid option, but I wasn’t sure if this was a free option or not.
Its the cheaper subscriber option.
Maybe it’s the same for others, but the follower/following thing was always kind of odd. People would request to follow me, and never do anything, no comments, no kudos, nothing. Like FB, were a bunch of high school friends ‘found me’, and just had to follow me, and then did nothing. (Some posted some of the most noxious garbage and I dropped them but so many did just nothing) And I will kudo people and do some positive/funny comments, and crickets. One follower would only kudo me if I did their activities. 
I’ve got a surprising number of activities and my request for data took until late the next day. Finally got it, but when I dropped them a few years ago, never got the link for download.
Fair enough. I get it. I saw where some were active with other riders on Strava, so eventually just started dropping people. Ironically I posted that I was going to drop people that weren’t very interactive and got more kudos on that than almost any other post ir event I posted. Irony? Can’t lie, it is kind of nice to get that kudo, that quick buzz of recognition, but it’s all meaningless in the end. I’m riding for me, not others. I think people can get lost in the ‘social’ aspect of too many things.
For me, the biggest social benefit is when joining new clubs and riding with new groups. You can start to make those small social connections, outside of club channels, get your name out there and helps me remember who everyone is.
Mostly found Strava to be pretty positive and normal. I only follow people I’ve met in real life (and occasionally a few pros). Vast majority of people who follow me are the same. If I get a follow request from somebody I don’t know I just decline it. I don’t really do other social media, so keeping connected with friends via what exercise we’re doing seems generally more wholesome than via sharing pictures of what we had for breakfast, political views, memes, and everything else that gets shared on other platforms (obviously there’s plenty of pictures of breakfast on Strava as well, but at least it’s usually a coffee and cake stop on a ride!). Pretty much every friend I’ve acquired over the years was through some form of sport or exercise, so most people I know are on Strava (and those that aren’t typically aren’t on any other social media either). And quite a few are spread around the world now so I don’t see them that much, but at least knowing they’re still getting out there and riding, running, skiing, lifting, hiking or whatever makes me think they’re probably doing OK (and occasionally if I think of somebody I haven’t seen in a while and can see they’ve been absent from Strava from a while it will spur me on to get in touch and see how they’re doing).
I don’t overthink the kudos thing, There may well be people who only give me kudos if I give them kudos, I haven’t really noticed. App seems much smarter now at sorting activities based on some level of meaningfulness (races, group rides, epic rides, first activity in a month, etc) instead of simply by most recent where the whole feed would sometimes be full of 10 minute walks to work and stretching sessions!
Yeah I’ve had that. I drop them, like you’ve been doing.
For what its worth, veloviewer pro is a single payment of $10 and gives you a ton of options. I paid for it just to compare climbs to other climbs based on strava segments. My buddy and I were arguing about who was faster up a specific route (he lives across the country) so I found climbs that were basically the same so we could compare times.
He’s faster, i’m stubborn, its what it is.
Anyone else having a problem signing in to Strava on a mac? I get ‘Username or password didn’t match’ on two systems. TIA…
Well, you make it sound dickish, but there are people that I follow who will only acknowledge me if I acknowledge them, and then others who I can acknowledge multiple times and get nothing. I preened down my Strava to ony those that also follow me, so I assume they are seeing what I do, and that I stroke them, so yeah, it does seem lika sick. Me ‘stroking them’ until I get a ‘atta boy’? What’s the point, and that’s it exactly.
People were floored that I dumped Twittler and FaceBook, and honestly I don’t miss the massive amount of noise. FB in particular, having witnessed flame wars over ‘how to swap tubes’ and ‘whether Peloton deserves to exist’, and ‘road v gravel bike’.
I was just so 
So exiting stage left was ‘easy’.
In the end, I have (had) to realize that I ride for ME, and if people like what I do say 'atta boy, otherwise I’m busy riding and: life.
But for people that I have followed for years, dumping them is kind of hard, but who am I riding for? Well, and, yeah, why do I care about them not caring about me.
So: Social media is the real problem here. Why do some people hope that people will give a crab about their life when they apparently don’t and need outside recognition to give them some strokes and valuation.
It’s a mess. I’m not the only one weighing who to bounce, and who to keep. Maybe bouncing everyone is the answer. Social media, outside of that venue (or inside it: Quit Strava?) is sure causing many problems for a wide variety of people. (Personally I feel Twittler and FaceBook will be the downfall of humanity, but they aren’t the only things weighing it all down)
So, drop Strava? Drop ‘ghosting’ followers? Ride more? (Get that 350+ FTP and drop people and kill KOM’s across the globe? I could hope) Never login to Strava until something doesn’t work as it did? I’m good with the later I guess, after all, I am riding for me.
Hah!!! This is funny…
i have ‘soft’ left strava.
i upload files manually, they are all private, nothing is public.
i use for rides inspiration…to see the heatmaps and sometimes steal someone else ride adapt and do it on my own privately.
i have also added sauce which tell me how many donuts i have burnt…
in the past three years I haven’t been riding much, because we had our first kid and now our second. I haven’t been active on strava much, most rides were left private and I didn’t take part in group rides or gave kudos to friends or commented on their activities.
Not because I don’t care about them or their activities, but because I didn’t really had the desire to see how much or where others rode, when I couldn’t. So it’s not coming from a “I don’t care about you or what you do”-thing but more of a “I’m jealous of the riding you do right now, because I can’t”-thing.
Now, if I return to a more active training and riding schedule once the boys are a bit older and I found out that I got deleted from friends follower lists because I wasn’t stroking their ego to their desire I’d be a bit taken aback tbh.
If you actively seek out people who don’t engage with your posts and unfollow them it’s probably the right time to evaluate why you use the app in the first place.
I use Strava as a data sync but also to encourage others to train. Kind of an ifIcandoitsocanyou type thing.
I suppose it also stores my training pics too as my apple storage has been maxed out for years.