Hi everyone, I’m a member of a 150+ member club that spans multiple time zones. We have a variety of skill levels and we like to ride banded rides with each other and chat; it’s a really nice time. That being said there are some limitations to Zwift as a social platform that have grown to be frustrating over time, namely the lack of flexibility in certain aspects of the platform especially around coordinating rides. I had some ideas to make it easier:
Let people make a banded meetup after teleporting to them. This would let people join off their friends and just make a ride on the spot rather than having a meetup scheduled. Right now we do most scheduling on discord chats but it’s not as fluid as just seeing your friend online and joining them. I’m thinking it could give a pop up to the rider you teleported to like “your friend just teleported to you, would you like to make a banded group?” or something to that effect.
Remove the 30 minute limit for late joining on meetups. If this is about route badge completion then just block people from getting the route badge who join after X amount of time. This one is probably the biggest annoyance we have as a club. If my friend made a 3 hour meetup why can’t I join it late? It feels needlessly restrictive and I would love to learn the rationale behind it being time limited.
Let people in group activities do individual workouts. As I mentioned above we primarily use the meetup feature rather than doing group rides. We do this because you can’t do individual workouts in group rides (you can only free ride or do a group workout.) Our group is on a variety of different workout plans and we ultimately just want to ride together, but if you can’t do your workout in the group ride it kind of feels bad. This would be easier than organizing through meetups since you have to invite every individual member vs sending out a mass invite.
Please! I want these features more than anything else on the platform! Just riding together is the best part of this place and being able to do it with friends and not having to worry about exact start times or what power people are doing would be great. Just let us ride with friends! You can disable all KOMs, route completions, and other metrics if needed.
My ideal system is just allowing friends to see each others rides or groups and to join at anytime banded as long as they’re pedaling. If they get dropped or have a mechanical, let them just rejoin.
These are all great ideas. I don’t have specific recommendations, but making it easier to ride, chat, and spend time with friends in watopia while working on your own fitness goals would be a huge plus.
If Zwift would simply send notifications to replies to comments would go a long way. Instead you have to jump through hoops to find the other persons activity and then leave a reply there. And now you TWO threads for ONE conversation. How ridiculous is that!
You would think it was an oversight that would have been fixed in game update #1! lol
clubs features on Zwift have been ignored for years, I am not confident they will ever update things and make them better, people have been asking for these types of features on the forums for many years now and it has been complete silence from ZHQ.
@Mike_Rowe1 we’ve had a lot of people move from peloton to Zwift in our club and their feature set is more limited in terms of club stuff but being able to join off your friends at any time without organizing is very nice
I would want some restrictions on that. I don’t want a random pop-up just because someone has teleported to me. It would need to be something I can disable, or restrict to “favourites” at least.
I think all three are nice ideas, but with Zwift, like any software firm, everything comes down to prioritisation and what we feel would have the most impact.
We have looked at the late join request quite recently and late join has had its issues in the past - extending the 30 minutes would be problematic. Making this work in an extended fashion would take a lot of work for something that does already work.
We are aware of requests to be able to allow riders to choose a workout in event. The ability to do it in a meetup was not intended, but ended up being surprisingly popular. I’ll certainly pass on this request.
(Just for clarities sake, my job has nothing to do with social media, nor our product roadmap)
All three ideas are great and something I’ve been wanting myself for some time, as they’d have a great impact on my enjoyment of the platform. It is certainly a letdown to hear that they are probably not being worked on.
Exa
