Back in late 2017 Strava made a change to users activity feeds. The change log read
Every Strava athlete now gets a personalized feed
We order the items in your feed to ensure that you don't miss items that matter to you
Well all hell broke loose on the Internet. Apparently what people wanted and what mattered was that
Activity Feed being in chronological order.
Here in 2020 rage is very common on the Internet. There's always something to rage about but back in
2017 this was somewhat of a pioneering rage. It was well ahead of the rage curve
The rage on the chronological feed disappearing back in 2017 included hash tag campaigns
rage quits
Change.org petitions and one of the most down voted support articles over on Strava itself
by a long way.
Awkward. It seems that everybody. Well a lot of people wanted their chronological feed back on Strava.
They didn't want it to look like MySpace or Geocities or whatever the rage was back then
Okay, before I tell you chronological feed is back on Strava
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So to today's news, which you already know by clicking on this video
Chronological is back. It's not on by default. You do need to go and configure it
So today that's what we're going to run through.
First up we'll look at the web version, then we'll jump over to the mobile and have things sorted in the order that we like.
Here we are on the web version of Strava and to get to the chronological order setting we go up to the user icon
down to settings
display preferences and
then feed ordering has just popped up (really it only popped up about half an hour ago or so) and then we click on the
Customization there. We can have personalized which is what we're accustomed to now
Which is very much like all the other social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
Will try and use an algorithm to show you what you want to see but sometimes we want chronological
Sometimes a lot of people want chronological so latest uploads is what we're after. We hit save
Bangerang we are done. Now that only starts as of now for my feed
So once you set that setting it might take a while for people to upload and things to come through in chronological order
Back to Strava main page here
And what do we see?
Scottie Wiess has ridden on Zwift
Rock-and-roll just uploaded today
In chronological order, how about that! Now jumping over to Strava mobile
We'll pull up the app after having just updated this from the Apple App Store
And I'll see if that setting carries over but we can have a look at where we configure it. So we click on profile
We click on the gear icon at the top there
scroll down feed ordering
Bangerang latest activities is right there. So that's carried over from the web on to the mobile a seamless user experience
That's how things should be
But if you want to configure that straight from the mobile
That's where you get it done, and for good measure
I have an Android phone here and I'll have a look if that's been updated as of now and
No updates available. So Android users as of right now - no go for this option
But it can't be too far away by the time this video gets published
I'm assuming it'll be in the Google Play Store (soon)
So there it is chronological ordering of your Strava feed is now back or more accurately. It's now an option that you can select
It's not there by default something people have been calling for for years and years. There we go
And that's how to get it configured but there's one more thing. Actually there's a few things Strava added, but there's one more thing
I'll have a look at today and that's athlete favoriting
You can select an athlete that you follow and have their activities appear at the top before everything else falls in line
So for example here I go to my feed we scroll through, scroll through, scroll through
Kos Samaras, who is the owner manager of my old cycling team, we'll jump on Kos's profile there
And unfortunately, this software isn't working as we were told. That following button
There should have a little down arrow where you click following and you can then...
Do I need to start a hashtag?
Anyhow, I'm assuming that'll be fixed soon too. Happy days. Alright, thanks for watching this one.
Go out, get some rides in, get some runs in and get in order. It's back!