During groups rides, for example, when there may be many riders chatting and responding to each other, it can be very difficult to read their messages. This is because they pile up on top of each other if the rider is not in the rider list on the right of the main screen (on PC).
Messages from riders ahead or behind constantly block each other in the upper right hand part of the screen near the top of the riders list. Surely messages can be placed dynamically to ensure that they never overlap. This gives you a chance to read all messages without having to constantly look at the Companion app.
While viewing message on the Companion app is easy enough, it can be a pain if you are also using other functions of the app at that time. For PC and Mac users who have a large main screen, why not make better use of it rather than forcing them to read messages from the app to ensure they don’t miss anything.
This is still an issue 3 years on. I came here to report this bug but found this identical ticket from 2018.
Rather than stacking the messages one above the other, they simply overlap each other. When combined with the fact each message is only onscreen for a few seconds, this means that you can miss several messages.
The messages that annoy me are the ride leader messages on events right on the exact middle of the screen and blocking the view of where other riders are.
Should be moved upwards so the view isn’t blocked by:
Here another five years later and this is still an issue. Not only do these messages pop up over previous messages, making them unreadable but they now block the left edge of the elevation profile map in the top right for me. I know you can turn messages off but would like to be able to follow the discussions going on without covering up other important pieces of information on the screen.
I was on a group ride in 2020 or 2021 hosted by Zwift. I brought this up with someone who was a developer for the platform. Their response was something about that’s why they have the companion app so you can see all the texts. I did press that the way they implemented showing message on the screen was poor ux/ui and proceeded to make my point with multiple messages. I’m pretty sure they don’t care and you’re expected to text and cycle. Everyone should have their phones/tablets with the companion app loaded in view…this was the vibe I remember from Zwift.
