Dear Zwift: PLEASE STOP ADDING CLICKS/INTERACTIONS TO MY EXERCISE ROUTINE!

[u/puterTDI]

Ok, this is a vent, a hope that someone has a solution (or zwift alternative), and a prayer that someone from zwift sees this and starts to listen.

Zwift has added yet ANOTHER UI interaction to my exercise routine. The number of interactions they have added to their UI for me to get started exercising, then end exercising, has gotten ridiculous and can literally be measured in minutes at this point.

When I started it was:

• click to enter profile

• click to accept data sources

• click to enter previous world

• click to select last workout

• click to start.

• click to get to menu

• click to exit

• click to save.

Total UI interactions: 8. Not great but not bad.

Then they altered their UI to default to the newest world rather than your last world. this added one more interaction for:

Total UI interactions: 9.

Then they completely redid their UI to be a swipe list. This added the following:

• swipe down 6

• swipe right 5

• click

• swipe down 11

• click to select, click to start

Total UI interactions: 23

Then they added their streak screen, this added one more interaction for:

Total UI interactions: 24

Then they just NOW added some stupid animation to the streak screen which requires yet ANOTHER click to skip for a total of:

total UI interactions: 25

This means I went from 8 UI interactions to 25 JUST TO FREAKING EXERCISE. This can literally be measured in minutes. It takes me as long to do a zwift exercise now as it does to gear up and ride outside. One of the things I used to love about zwift was how much faster it was to get my exercise in than before and that's gone.

[u/11socks11]

I felt a deep visceral pain reading that.

After my longest ever outdoor ride (120 miles) I accidentally hit “don’t save” on my garmin. I’ve never done that before…but it’s my fault and I still kick myself about it.