Forget Hinge or Tinder – Strava is the best dating app out there
The IndependentStrava used to be the most complete social media app. You’re spending upwards of three hours with these people at a time, or training by yourself every day, as your conversation and priorities regress from being the normal concerns of someone worryingly close to 30, to that of a child on a summer camp, thinking of your upcoming marathon and nothing else. You get the chance to see an entire relationship arc play out in real time, kilometre by kilometre, until a “catch up run with the gals” post drops and you realise that it’s all over. Ultimately, it feels like Strava is folding to pressure; trying to find ways to pile features into an app that doesn’t really need them. It’s disheartening to see things I used to love slowly creeping behind a paywall, as the developers forget what people are actually there for.
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