Strava is increasingly transforming into a social network

While an application operating in the same domain has just won theApp Store Awards sur iPhone,Stravahas a feature that makes it even more user-friendly. On November 25, the app integrated the new option “Flyover», or «Overview» in French, which, as a reminder, offers the possibility oftrace your previous activities on a 3D map.

Strava offers us today a completely different functionality, but which could be used much more than the last one: it is a dedicated and independent messaging service.

“Athletes perform better together. »

These are the firm's statements, and they are based, according to its latest press release, on the research carried out by the platform. The teams in charge of developingStravatherefore wanted to add messaging to the application. This is to provide athletes with an all-in-one interface where they can:

  1. Track their activity and that of their friends.
  2. Listen to music.
  3. And now communicate directly with their activity partners.

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The groups are already integrated

It is already possible to send individual messages, but not only that. Today,Stravadoes things well given that it integrates along with the individual messages,the ability to create group conversations. One way to allow “seamless coordination, connectivity and celebration of achievements and progress».

Messaging also adds an option to share individual activities directly to your contacts.Strava.

Confidentiality respected

To top it all off, “Athletes can set their preferences for who can invite them to a group message or who can message them directly. Settings will be automatically set based on an athlete's profile visibility, but can be adjusted to receive messages to and from “Following”, “Mutual” or “Person” in the Strava app settings.»

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By : Keleops AG