Last week was a big one at Zwift as they announced a restructuring and “right-sizing” of the business, eliminating ~200 positions in a company of 700+ employees (read more here).
Zwift says the move away from hardware will let them focus on improving what really matters: Zwift’s software. “We are committed to increasing the development of the core Zwift game experience, increasing the speed of new feature releases, and making the platform more accessible than ever before.”
When will we see the fruits of Zwift’s refocused efforts? Zwifters hope it’s soon, and not zoon. Some Zwifters doubt that the restructuring will actually move the needle when it comes to Zwift’s ability to improve Zwift.
As I thought about it over the weekend, I decided if I was in charge at Zwift, I would want to make some quick, easy improvements to show the community we’re listening and have the ability to roll out useful updates quickly.
With that theme in mind, here is my list of 10 easy upgrades Zwift could implement to help meet the goal of “making the platform more accessible” and “increasing the development of the core Zwift game experience”. Some of these upgrades are so easy they could go live by simply changing a line or two of code or an entry in a database. Others may take a programmer or designer a few hours of work. Some have already been developed internally, but never released. But they are all easy wins for Zwift which the community would love to see. So without further ado…
#1: 4th Challenge
Status: Launched, May 2025
We’ve written about this in the past, more than once. Zwift has had the same three Challenges since early days, with an image that seems to show a 4th Challenge can be unlocked.
How is that Challenge unlocked? By Zwift’s team getting around to creating a 4th Challenge and putting it into the game.
The ideation has already been done – by Zwift (internal sources tell me additional Challenges have been conceived and even partially designed), but also by the Zwift community itself, which has come up with a pile of Challenge ideas (including this lovely bit of artwork).
There should always be a Challenge for every Zwifter to be working toward, even if it’s a crazy one like riding to the Moon (238,900 miles).
If you agree, upvote the feature request >
#2: Level 51+
Status: Launched, September 2022
Zwift added levels 26-50 back in December 2018, but hasn’t added additional levels since. Many of Zwift’s most dedicated long-term users have been stuck at level 50 for years. Myself included.
Sure, level 50 Zwifters represent a small slice of the overall community. But they’re the super users. The evangelists. Zwift should want to keep them engaged and excited.
Adding a new set of levels is one easy way to do it. And it would take so little on Zwift’s part. Can I let you in on a little secret? Level 50 Zwifters don’t really care about unlocking new socks at the next level. We’ve got plenty of socks. But we do enjoy working toward new levels.
Zwift could add the new levels with nothing unlocked at each level and Zwift veterans would rejoice. Then Zwift could come in and back-fill those new levels with some simple unlocks (socks, hats, new glasses, etc) in the coming months. Easy peasy.
If you agree, upvote the feature request >
#3: Group Ride Ons in Events
Status: Launched, September 2022
Right now you can tap your location arrow in the Companion app during a free ride/run and give a Ride On to the 5 closest Zwifters. But you can’t do that in an event. (I’ve written about this more here.)
It used to be possible, so we know the functionality already exists. But it was disabled in events for unknown reasons after being in game for several months.
Bring it back, Zwift, and let us be more encouraging and social with our friends!
If you agree, upvote the feature request >
#4: Remove Clubs Signup Limits
Status: Climb limits have been increased multiple times over the years. As of March 2026, you can join us to 50 Clubs, and Clubs can have at least 100k members (not sure if there is a member limit at this time).
Currently, Zwifters are allowed to sign up to a maximum of three Clubs, and that includes Clubs they own. Additionally, Clubs are limited to just 100 members.
This is just silly, and it has hamstrung the rollout of Clubs. Consider this:
- We have a Zwift Insider Club (join it here), but I haven’t shared it because I know we’ll hit the 100-member limit within hours.
- My team (DIRT) has a Club that existed before today’s Clubs tools. It is capped at 500 members, which again is silly given that our team has several thousand members.
- I personally know of several IRL Clubs who haven’t started using Zwift’s Clubs tools because their Club has a few hundred members.
A partial Club is no Club at all. If you’re using Zwift’s Clubs tool to unify a group that already exists, and you can’t get all your members into the Club, the Club is useless. If Zwift should have learned anything in the past 5 years, it’s to stop playing gatekeeper and let Zwifters make their own choices.
There’s good news here, though: according to this forum post, Zwift is actively working on letting us have more than 100 Club members, and join more than 3 Clubs.
#5: More Missions
Status: Zwift did roll out more missions, but these have been effectively replaced in game by various “mini Challenges” which show on the homescreen, but don’t award badges.
Missions are those short-term events (usually a month long) challenging Zwifters to ride 250 km, climb 20,000 feet, burn 10,000 calories, etc within a given timeframe. While we didn’t see many Missions in 2021, Zwift has hosted Missions in January and April so far for 2022, so that’s a good sign.
I would love to see monthly Missions become a standard on Zwift. It shouldn’t be tough to come up with compelling ideas as there’s an abundance of Mission fodder floating around between partner product launches, new Zwift features (ride all the former Rebel Routes, perhaps?), and personal challenges.
#6: Saved Logins/Pairings
Status: the pairing screen has seen some updates, but saved logins and pairings still aren’t a thing.
Many Zwifters share their Zwift computer/device with others (the family that Zwifts together stays together, right?) Zwift should be able to optionally remember recent account logins so starting up Zwift under the correct account is quick and easy. (It can already do this on AppleTV and iPad, but not on PC, Mac, Android, or iPhone.)
Additionally, paired devices should be remembered based on account, so when I’m signed in as a particular user my devices automatically and quickly pair up. (Currently paired devices are remembered for all accounts which have used that computer, which gets confusing when multiple users have different bikes, heart rate monitors, even trainers!) When we all basically use the same equipment for each session, pairing should be automatic and fast, unless a problem occurs.
#7: Show Routes for Events
Status: events still lack route details in game.
I love that Zwift’s new homescreen UI places more emphasis on events, and lets you see the event description and other details more easily than the old UI.
But I have one big complaint, as a route guy: where is the route name?
The Companion app shows the route name and a map. But it’s missing in the new homescreen UI and also missing on the Zwift.com events calendar (zwift.com/events).
I never sign up for an event without knowing which world/map it’s on. Zwift, tell us the world and route so we know what we’re signing up for, please. Bonus points if you can link that world/route name to a simple popup window showing the route’s animated map and an elevation profile!
#8: Annual Plan
Status: rolled out November 2023. Paying annually effectively gives you 2 free months, at least for US$ pricing.
A longtime request, Zwifters want Zwift to do what’s become the standard in the industry: give us a discount if we pay for 12 months. Wahoo’s recent acquisition of RGT focused in on this pain point, with Wahoo offering a $50 discount for annual memberships.
I think many Zwifters would be happy with 2 months free, and this would probably convince a lot of riders to just pay for a full year instead of pausing their accounts in the summer.
If you agree, upvote the feature request >
#9: Power Curve Improvements/Fixes
Status: the power curve can still be wonky at times.
I love checking out my critical power curve on Strava after hard races, to see if I set any recent power bests. Zwift’s power curve on the Ride Report screen offers a taste of the same capabilities, but it’s a very rudimentary and buggy version of what’s become standard in the industry.
If Zwift could let me change which time window the power curve represents (past 6 weeks, all of 2022, all time, etc) and fix the bug that sometimes makes the two lines appear very separated even though they should overlap, the power curve window would become much more useful.
#10: Clean Up My Garage
Status: fixed… sort of. Zwift rolled out automatic garage sorting in October 2024. It’s not a full garage organization capability some users want, but it at least puts your most used items at the top of the list!
A common request from racers, it would be nice if we could delete items in our garage. Heck, if it’s too much hassle then we won’t even ask for some of our Drops back when “returning” items. Just let us delete the stuff we’ll never use, so we can more quickly find the bikes we want!
Your Thoughts
What do you think of my list? Do you have an easy change you would add to it? Share your thoughts below!
A ‘Clean up my garage’ feature would be amazing. I don’t know why they haven’t got around to this already.
I’ve suggested before we need an attic or a shed. One where we can keep the bikes we’ve unlocked but put them well out the way so bike swapping can be quick!
+1 for the shed, actually just posted something very similar 🙂
Also, maybe the ability to sell some bikes? So you can buy something shiny and new like IRL.
yes! I second this motion
A set of 5 preselected bike setups you could easily toggle back and forth between would be even better than getting rid of bikes (in case they decide to randomly change bike stats again making something useful once more). I’d have (1) Gravel (2) Climbing (3) Aero (4) TT and (5) Mtb (assuming they make courses where it’s relevant, otherwise it’d be an all rounder in this slot), and then just ride my Tron as usual, but easily and quickly change to one of these pre-sets (or change between them), when the situation calls for it. Probably a lot more work in coding than just letting us delete old bikes, but it’d be super cool.
Or better – a bike selection below the route selection, eliminating the need to pick in the garage. If you want to bother with wheels, drill down into garage just like home. But when I pick a ride irl I already know the bike and pick it up on the way out.
The garage is fine. How about a ‘Team Car” that I can put 2 bikes and a set of wheels in and have the ability to quickly switch equipment to my limited selection.
Right? I’ve stopped changing out my kit because it just takes to much time to sift through everything. First world problems I guess but still…
Clean up the Garage by deleting items could be very dangerous because ZHQ is able to change the performances for frames & wheels every day 🙈🤣.
I still hope for an option to sort my favourite items by numbers, stars or drag&drop ranking-list … also for the tons of kits please !!!
Having the ability to race against yourself by showing a previous effort on the same route as a kind of ‘ghost rider’ is one that I often see requested.
Maybe not as easy an addition development wise as some of yours but it’s been requested a lot for a long time.
Agreed it’s a very popular request. I didn’t add it here simply because it wouldn’t be as easy to implement as those on my list!
I used to do this back in the days on my CompuTrainer, so how hard can it be?
Even computrainer had this in their last software version before they died.
Gran turismo ( play station game) had this option many years ago.. should be easy now to implement on zwift . Great idea ..
Route PRs should be no different from KOM/sprint PRs. Clearly most of the infrastructure for this is already in their software.
Fullgaz has a simple graphic with your previous best and your current position as 2 pictures on the map profile.
That’s a great list. To pick 4, I’d say
-Clean up my garage
-Annual Plan
-4th challenge
-Level 51+ (I’m at 45 and coming that way)
I don’t want to delete items in my garage. I do want to be able to save kit profiles, so I can quickly chose TT gear, hill climb gear, lumpy race gear etc.
Yes! Being able to save some favorite bike setups would be great. I have this on my list of ideas, but figured it wouldn’t be easy enough to make this list.
I agree, much more useful than getting rid of bikes would be to have presets to quickly/easily change into. Whether for within a race or just because I don’t want to have to go and look up which is the best frame/set of wheels for each condition, so I can just have the presets ready to go when needed.
One of the things I enjoyed was when i was chasing route badges. Having them all now, it isn’t as exciting. It would be nice if they would keep track that second round through the routes. Maybe a banner at the end. Don’t need the xp points after the first time. Maybe a new ‘badge’ that says how many times you’ve completed the full circuit of badges.
Oh, that’s a great idea I’d forgotten about! What if the route badge page had a number next to each route badge showing how many times you’d completed it? And/or a badge for completing all the routes.
Probably a bit more work than the easy wins on this page, but a great carrot nonetheless.
And how about making ALL the event only routes available to select – that would be a lot of new badges to chase!
For multiple times doing a route, just make the XP equal to 1/x where x= the number of times you’ve done the route. So you get full XP for your first, half XP for your 2nd, 1/3rd XP for your 3rd, etc. So it always gives you XP, but in decreasing quantities.
Then instead of showing a check mark on the intro screen, have it show the number of times you’ve done it
Awesome idea, @Tim Grose
I proposed this idea on Zwift Forums some time ago, support it 100%. Maybe some kind of visual noddy badge to boast your badge achievements like a World Champion stripe on the short sleeve or a halo over the head 🙂 or zwift olympic rings on the back of the shirt for each group badges completed. Alternatively maybe even just a simple badge count somewhere visually, maybe like the companion app icon or workout icon in front of the name on the sidebar. I have L50, every badge, more than 150 shirts, all the bikes I want … all I want is more challenges to make me want to Zwift. 🙂
Nice list, agreed with most and should be relatively simple to implement.
Some additions I would like:
Not so simple, but it is time to include a Benelux world, including the famous climbs from the Belgium and Dutch classics … 😉
I really like the idea of being able to choose whether it displays 30 days or lifetime (or whatever) PRs. Sure, you can look at it on Strava afterwards, but I like being able to see it right now. A ghost at the PR to race against would be even cooler.
Rebel routes can’t be selectable. As soon as they become official routes they stop being rebel ones and new rebel routes need to be created.
I just hit 1,000,000 XP this evening which is level 50 twice. I suspect if/when Zwift add new levels lost of people will simply bypass them if they only release 10 or 25 extra so they won’t keep people happy unfortunately as they still won’t be working towards new levels. This is a change that they should make every year and and by not doing it for so long it’s now point less.
I agree unlocking new shirts and socks doesn’t motivate and also makes the garage more cluttered as you also suggest but I think ZWift like the partner unlocks.
it’s the same with the mission they have to unlock something worthwhile otherwise people won’t care. I think it would be nice to get the ceramic speed pulley wheels as that offered an advantage in game when we have them.
Zwift could just make it harder to go up a level… right now the upper levels are 20k XP apart. Make it 30k, 40k, 50k… then create levels 51-100. Easy peasy!
You need the balance so that when the new people start the higher levels are attainable and not too daunting especially if there are equipment unlocks as it could give the higher level people an advantage.
Xactly!
Should be an opinion for keep together club meetup and also a club meetup workouts, until then the club meetups are useless
Club Workouts are currently being worked on, according to this post: https://forums.zwift.com/t/clubs-update-april-recap/583590
I agree that’s an important feature that will help the Club uptake…
Nice list, do agree with most of them.
Some relatively simple ones:
One more: in addition to 30days PR’s, include year or all-time PB’s
I would also add:
HR is already recorded though?
1. Rowing
2. Safari route
3. Snow bike route and Skierg compatiblity
4. Return to the old interface, which was much much maligned, but better.
5. Old music as default.
6. More roads like France
7. Fewer roads like Makuri and Neoyoko
8. In group rides, if the leader calls out 3.5 W/kg, then if they and the peloton/group goes at 4.5 W/kg, then they should all be banned for 10 weeks, leader included. TIC, but not TFIC
9. World hack with Zwift open
10. Reduce the saturation of the graphics
I was very happy to discover new (and unannounced?) pace partners with D.Drops at 2.0 w/kg, C.Chaser at 3.0 and B.Blazer at 3.8, in addition to the previously announced D.Duster at 1.15, D.Duke at 1.8 and D.Draft at 2.15. Thank you, Zwift.
💚👊
Challenges, think that might have disappeared with the new UI, bit like the “ride with” option..?
Nope. They’re still in the same place they’ve always been (the in-game main menu).
On the updated home screen I can’t see the ‘ride with’ option could you explain where they are now please.
I miss that “ride with option”, who loves riding with someone famous when they see them on the list !
As well as being in some random place to start your ride/run
How about showing/saving historic PRs on timed sections/segments rather than just previous 30 days…I think that is much more relevant to most than starting from scratch every 30 days and/or having to manually track what a real PR was…IMHO
Could we even just do “favorites” for the garage? Would keep a person’s 4-5 most used frames and wheels at the top. (click a lil’ star to make it a favorite item) Everything else is still there, just below.
that (to me) is the obvious solution, just like so many video games. In my old Gran Turismo saves I had most of the cars in the game. I would only drive a handful. Let us star the favorites and have Favorites be the default “view” when you pick the category. This would work for ALL items (frames, wheels, socks, jerseys, etc, etc).
Sorry to hijack the thread, but is the scoring system for the Rebel Race series going to be implemented? Thanks!
Thank you
It was fixed this morning. 🙂
Allow us to assign each bike in garage a Number, then it can be sorted
Great list. It’s notable that none of these requests are for game expansion (more bikes, kits, worlds, etc). You’ve hit the nail on the head – Zwifters are looking for ongoing challenges and an improved user experience.
While I would love to see more worlds/roads, those take more work than the items in this post. I think Zwift needs to keep building out roads for sure… but it also makes lots of sense to pick the low-hanging fruit!
I would add, no more changing the performance of bikes once they are ‘sold’ in the drop store. Check the stats before releasing it. Don’t put it out there wrong, and then fix it later after I’ve cluttered up my garage (that can’t be cleaned) with yet another purchase that was fast when released and then neutered when Zwift corrected it.
We all know none of this stuff will get addressed anyway. The only way to get Zwift to actually do this stuff is to pause your sub and do something else.
Would be interesting if you revised this story every 6 months to see what has actually been done.
I think you summed up the main thing wrong with Zwift and the one thing they really need to improve – they simply don’t listen to their users.
In the compagnon app I want to be able to search by day and time for events rather than scrolling through all of the day’s events to get to the evening.
How about searching for events by the route as well. I know you can do this with Zwift hacks but Zwift really should be providing us this option.
And while I’m at it Zwift Power should be brought into the Zwift world proper. Going to separate websites makes no sense to me. I want to check the competition from the compagnon app before an event, not go to an external web site.
Filtering events in the companion app by distance, hilly/flat, course, time/effort (for workouts) would also be useful and seems pretty obvious from a ‘what filters would users need?’ design thinking approach).
Dual recording of power should be native.
re garage, simply having favorites that would be at the top of the list would be sufficient.
late join to event increased to more than 30min ( useful for long rides events)
Improve team time trial start
add grouped private messages in companion
add chat ingame display
allow to add/remove some of the windows ( map/ranking….)
Good list. I almost included the late join one in this post!
Bring back the workout graph to the top of Zwift Companion’s workout screen. I don’t know why it had to go away.
Trons are so boring now, give us a Mk II
A gravel/MTB tron would be nice, after so many gravel/offroad km’s challenge I think that would be a good challenge with good rewards,
Race categorization (don’t @ me). Then I might actually race more often. I’m a just above average C, and it’s no fun watching a bunch of Bs drag the front of the race away.
Not sure how easy these would be but:
For group rides:
I would like to be able to pick my 4 favourite bikes . And star them on home page . Which would be easier to pick from in a hurry .
There appear to be some new event only routes coming including Zen Top and Alpe Du Zwift Downhills.And a couple of Gravel ones.According to the master route list.
Like you say in the events , need group Ride ons in the workouts in the companion app … And a button for screenshot too in the workout screen of the companion
Excellent points!! Let’s see what happens
Well it seems obvious from your list that Zwift Run is not even worth a passing mention. Shame on you.
I think Zwift needs to focus on improving its core product and impressing its largest audience, which is cyclists. (Plus Zwift is clearly pulling away from investing heavily into running at this time, so suggesting they do otherwise would prove fruitless anyway.)
That said, of my list of 10 items above, 6 apply to running as well as riding.
The Zwift banner-head is that it’s a riding and running training platform. It goes to great lengths to promote multi-sports events like the Super League triathlon and the Tri Academy team in St. George. Spending money at at the top end while only giving minimal support to the majority is false economy. I’m not suggesting major investment as your list is (I understood) to be quick wins. In this vein Zwift could make runners happy with simple things like changing ‘Ride On’s’ to ‘Run On’s or High Fives’, change the reporting of group runs from ‘Group Rides’ to ‘Group Runs’, etc. Personally, I’m hoping the reemergence of Jon Mayfield will see some greater recognition the supposed duality of the platform.
…I also understand that suggesting Zwift do something (anything) for runners, even multiport ones, likely won’t play well with your subscriber demographic.
Final thought. Zwift doesn’t even make changes between the two disciplines consistent. For example, the recent update included “All workouts within a Training Plan are available from the first day of the plan.” This has only been implemented for cycling, running plans are still locked.
As a decently dedicated Zwift runner, you might be going a bit far with the ‘shame’ callout. Running is free, and, like I always say, you “get what you pay for.” Bikers pay a subscription, and should rightfully expect more features and focus. Of course, some of these things listed will help runners too, so I’ll take whatever we can get.
That said, I like your ideas. I’ll even add a few on…if Zwift wants to improve running quickly, it’s really as simple as creating more content – more events, more kit, more unlocks, etc. Just having a running drop shop would be amazing. Seems like an easy opportunity for monetising sponsors for what today they give away for free – this “Run for the Oceans” event with Adidas coming up seems like a good start. Add in the ability to start mid-route on bike routes (so we can see more than just the first few miles of Ven Top!), allow Zwift to track and control treadmill inclines, and add some new race types (a relay would be epic) and they could easily start charging for it.
Maybe Eric needs to let us write a guest article “10 Easy Features for Runners” 🤔
I’m a multidiscipline athlete and I’ve been on the platform for over 6 years. Sometimes it’s necessary to be controversial in order to make a point. In my view “I’ll take what I can get” sadly reflects the prevailing attitude of too many Zwift runners. Promoting running (triathlons) but not maintaining, let alone improving, the software is IMO a disservice to users. It beggars belief that in the latest release Zwift would only unlock the cycling training plans.
It’s pretty obvious that Zwift running has been a fail. As a triathlete I wish it was different but sometimes we have to accept the realities of life.
I’m sure Zwift was dedicated to running at some point in the past, same as they were dedicated to releasing a rowing option. I’m sad that changed but as much as I like to blame Zwift for their many failures over the last couple of years, it’s difficult to blame them for the user base not caring for running even when it’s free.
I think a lot of it comes down to marketing and simple awareness. I had no idea Zwift natively supported my treadmill nor that it was free for the better part of a year after buying it. If they were doing it right, they would have an iPad hooked up to a treadmill at every decent running shop across the land showing off the game and enticing users while they’re out buying new shoes.
It’s very much a self-fulfilling prophecy; there’s few users, so there is little need for investment. Because there is little investment, few new users join the platform.
As it stands, I’m trying to take part in more group runs, workouts, and races, because the community isn’t going to build itself. A shame DIRT can’t also stand for Dads Inside Running on Treadmills!
I assume you feel no shame about giving your opinions about improvements, but still it was quite an offensive comment from Chris. Over the top. I appreciate your posts and I don’t expect you to represent everyone who uses Zwift. Anyone can write up their own views on what Zwift should do to improve. Runners should certainly do that.
I am a mountain biker. I joined 2.5 years ago because of Repack Ridge… …is it unreasonable to expect more?
New roads in Makuri (to Mount Fiji), London, France and Watopia (further east and north).
Make it easy to switch between pacebots without starting a new ride: warm up with C for a bit, then ride with B for a bit, then go back to C to warm down
A simple feature that I find crazy is not already in the game – chat box. Let us have a box (transparent) with chat messages in chronological order. Like any multiple player game has!
Fix the bug where Zwift doesn’t automatically pull from linked Withings accounts. Have to unpair and repair manually if I want to update my weight. When I do that it pulls the value properly, so there’s just a broken (or disabled) trigger somewhere in the code.
Some longer than others but i see no reason that most of the things you and comments suggest could not be done within the next few months.
A few other things (maybe not all so quick)
Withings weight sync bug (just passed 2 year anniversary of them breaking it)
Fan view rider list breaking passing junctions.
Club kit unlock with club membership (and removal when leaving)
More game modes, elimination/points in game.
TTT mode – already coming
Increase club limits but keep race clubs capped with further zp integration. it’s tiresome having to compete on a social level with other clubs.
Companion app to have event text search.
Custom routes
Get all racers on zp (or at least have organisers the option to exclude non=zp users) –
Clean up Garage! yes please. As an early zwifter I got really excited and added EVERY jersey i could get a code for. Now its a pain every time i want/need to change jersey’s, I have to scroll through a HUGE list of items i’ll never wear.
They really need to sort out menu navigation using ATV remote.
I’m strongly in favour of your points 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 10 – these must be easy from a programming/creative perspective & it is madness that Zwift have not acted. What computer game has not increased its top level in four years – no other active one I am sure? I’m at level 50 and completed all the missions, badges etc, I don’t find workouts motivating, but I do enjoy tracking my progress. Drops are silly as I can’t spend them on anything new because my garage is so cluttered – see 10. These are simple things & I will be tempted to check out the other providers by next winter if Zwift have not come up with something interesting here. Also ZwiftPower ZPoints has been messed about with so I now have no numbers that I can rely on to track progress. For a numbers guy, that is pretty fundamental. Neglect superusers at your peril (and I would not really even count myself as a super user!).
I use the pace groups to warm up for races or a challenging workout, but C Pace group is limiting after a point. I often want additional warm up time in B with out the hassle of logging out of C group then returning to the game to in B. The request may be too esoteric, but I’d love the feature.
I would add to this, that using Pace Partners disables your ability to get sprint and KOM jerseys. The reason is because, I have on occasion joined a Pace Partner group right as they were going over the line and won the jersey solely because of the pedal assist.
This is probably going to get worse for you, because pedal assist time is being lengthened
What about route gps function? If i’m bored of my current route then it would nice to select a Point on the map to guide me there automatically without searching
Some super suggestions. I reckon the Missions/Challenges stopped being created was down to the shear number of monthly challenges on Strava that have actual unlocks. A few tweaks to the format & Zwift could make it credible again.
Personally I’d love to see Crit City get some love, with the category enforcement there isn’t a better half hour workout available.
Imagine an elimination format, 12 laps where a racer/percentage of the field gets knocked out.
Or longer 20+ lap format where you get automatically put into small teams of 3 or 4 riders wearing the same kit, where team tactics would come into play. Maybe one day!
Good list. I’ll add:
-Let the masses have Zwift VR. It’s there, (probably) hidden behind a feature flag. Call it a Future Works project, “use at your own risk”, whatever makes the legal team happy.
-New missions are cool, but make them actually challenging. 100k in 100 days isn’t even hard for runners. In order to keep things inclusive, maybe goals and rewards could be tiered (like, ride 100 km and get a Widget, ride 1000 km and get a Super Widget, ride 10000 km and get a Hyper Widget).
The 100km mission had to be done between April 15-May 15, actually. So just a month, not 100 days. But the way Zwift advertised it was super confusing… as you’ve illustrated beautifully. 🙂
Would love to finally test Zwift VR! Even if it got sweaty!
1 how about a virtual garage sale! Let Zwifters sell stuff at a premium or discount.
2 a better elevation profile in game would be great! I can barely see the profile now and never sure which way it’s progressing. Zoom in please.
2a show elevation in .5% increments
3 can we get more options for our avatar?
Yes, more avatar options!
Male pattern baldness? I only wear a helmet in-game so I don’t have to be reminded of my friar tuck look in real life 😅
+ 1 on avatar options – would love to actually have long hair
Hair color slider!
Haha … but “red” would not be available 🙂
All great suggestions. Also all suggestions that have been around for years. Fingers crossed some of them will get implemented now to keep users happy. (Or content enough to stay on)
Very interested to see where Zwift is going in the short term. The fact that Eric Min didn’t get fired must mean the hardware push was mostly on the investors and not on Zwift’s management team.
The pairing issue is worse than you make it out to be – my zwift constantly grabs my wife’s trainer (and vice versa) despite NEVER having paired to it! Weird how my garmin never pairs to a random stranger’s HRM if I don’t want it to. 🙂
It’s goofy, right? I’ve only seen this happen with ANT+ devices.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the wattage output of riders around me in addition to w/kg that’s currently shown. On flat stretches, w/kg is less meaningful. And misleading when riders weigh differently from each other; e.g. a 100kg rider showing 2.5 w/kg is putting out the same wattage as a 50kg rider at 5.0 w/kg (250 watts).
Agree with these suggestions – hopefully they are all on the roadmap!
My request is a little more niche – I’d like the option of separating resistance and incline. With the Kickr Bike the incline changes really help with comfort and with engagement – but in races and group rides I tend to be at 50% trainer difficulty so that I can more closely match competitors.
I think this is a change Wahoo would need to make in firmware, since Zwift is just sending incline to the bike and the bike is taking it from there.
This would be fantastic.Would also make ERG workouts more dynamic by opening up routes as a way to make the same workout more interesting and targeted to different muscle groups.
I say we just make Eric the CEO. He obviously cares more about Zwift than anyone else and knows what we all want. Schlange2022!!
I think the other Eric is a much better man for that job!