Strava

Raised as a usability problem by 29 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 18 threads.

People raised many different problems with Strava, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 31 complaints

Pages take over 10 seconds before they start rendering in Safari2026-10-13
Aggressively pushes users toward a paid subscription, which feels infuriating2026-06-18
App installs but won't let the user sign in on GrapheneOS2026-06-17
Had to build traffic-light-free routes manually in Strava from satellite images2026-04-30
Google sign-in loops back to the login page instead of logging in2025-07-24
Starting and stopping runs in the app felt frictional2025-01-21
Importing activities was an unintuitive manual process2025-01-21
GPS recordings get cut off mid-walk, so routes show impossible jumps2023-01-22
Must open the app and manually sync each activity, one by one, with no sync-all option2023-01-13
Simple stats hard to find; cluttered screens; hidden close-ad button and forced tours2022-03-15
User spent an hour fiddling with settings before learning sync had ended2022-03-14
No simple search, so users can't easily find things they need2022-03-14
Auto pause rarely works, so recordings include lift lines and stationary time2022-03-14
Save screen is complicated and unclear about where form data will appear2022-03-14
No OLED-compatible dark theme, so the screen is hard to see at night2021-12-03
Hard to log in to a paid account on mobile site, which pushes people toward the app2021-05-03
Redesign with infinite scroll makes quickly reviewing historic activities harder2020-11-21
Expects fundraising will bring dark patterns and feature degradation pushing paid upgrades2020-11-17
Sign-up repeatedly nags users into granting health data access they didn't choose2020-07-25
Denying access to health data leads through a tricky series of dialog boxes2020-07-25
A user setting is buried behind three redundant confirmation screens with confusing options2020-07-25
Signup flow is full of dark patterns that push users into things2020-07-25
Dark patterns push users into sharing health data they didn't choose2020-07-25
Duplicate activities appear and must be deleted manually2019-07-13
Gear is nearly nonexistent on mobile and activities can't be bulk updated2019-07-12
Multisport transitions are recorded as separate activities that users must manually delete2019-07-12
The route builder is barely usable on mobile2019-02-28
Enhanced privacy setting misleadingly still includes users in heatmap and leaderboards2018-02-01
Confusing privacy settings make it unclear what users are sharing; mobile app settings are more limited than web2018-01-31
Can't find addresses; must manually zoom and click map to set route points2017-08-24
Flagged dangerous downhill segments keep reappearing when users recreate them2013-10-20