Currently, any follower can see comments on our activities and even enable email notifications for new comments. While this can be convenient for some, it also raises privacy concerns. For instance, if I receive a personal message from a coach or a follower that I prefer to keep private, any follower could read it and even receive a copy via email notifications. This situation means that the account owner has no control over who can see and keep track of these comments.
It’d be ideal if account owners could control comments and notifications, here are a few specific suggestions:
- Privacy Settings for Comments: Allow account owners to set privacy levels for comments on their activities, such as “Followers,” “Coach Only,” or “Private.”
- Notification Control: Provide account owners with the ability to manage who can enable email notifications for comments on their activities.
- Comment Moderation: Introduce an option for account owners to moderate comments before they appear to followers on their activities.
Implementing these features would give users more control over their privacy and ensure that sensitive information remains confidential, especially between athletes and their coaches.
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I noticed something strange/funny/… on the privacy topic.
If I as a coaxh put a comment, it appears on the strava of my coachee:face_with_peeking_eye:
Not quite the best idea I guess
Am I putting it in the weing field?
Best regards.
Toni
It sounds like you are putting the comment in the description field of the notes section (at the top), not in the notes section at the bottom. Putting it in the description section will update the description on Strava…
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This would be great. I’m happy for people to follow me, but I’m not that keen for them to see me commenting on my sleep, injury issues, etc.
Since comments are visible directly from the calendar, they serve as an excellent way to get a quick “at-a-glance” view of relevant observations throughout the training. While I understand the comment field is not intended for this purpose, if the comments are used as a way to organize information for quick reference in the calendar, athletes or coaches could use it for private notes that should not appear publicly on Strava. So it would be great to be able to use comments in this way - what do you think?
Taking the opportunity to expand on the topic, here are two additional points I consider relevant:
- Comments are often lengthy, even when there’s no need for the entire text to appear in the calendar view. My first suggestion is to introduce an option to display only the first X lines of a comment in the calendar view, truncating the rest with something like “[…]”.
- Another suggestion is to allow reading comments on rest days directly from the calendar. For example, “Couldn’t train today because I had to travel for work.” In the current setup, as far as I understand, you need to open the note window to view its content (since there isn’t an option to add rest days to the calendar directly).