Shock, horror!! No more STRAVA segments!!

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  • fenix
    fenix Posts: 5,437
    I'm not sure our GPS is good enough to cope with 200m segments. Over a longer distance it would become more accurate but it's silly to have such short segments.
  • trivial_poursuivant
    trivial_poursuivant Posts: 1,136
    Fenix wrote:
    I'm not sure our GPS is good enough to cope with 200m segments. Over a longer distance it would become more accurate but it's silly to have such short segments.

    To add on this, I’ve noticed Strava does have times when it takes ages to update or refresh. Maybe the database is getting too big to manage.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Fenix wrote:
    I'm not sure our GPS is good enough to cope with 200m segments. Over a longer distance it would become more accurate but it's silly to have such short segments.
    This one is utterly ridiculous. It's a short path with a gate at either end and there are usually pedestrians on it, often with dogs or young children.
    https://www.strava.com/segments/4038207?filter=overall
    I only found out it existed when I had an email telling me I'd lost the KOM, I wouldn't mind but I didn't even know I had one. As Ugo says the number of duplicates is ridiculous, Richmond Park must have hundreds.
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  • svetty
    svetty Posts: 1,904
    @ Trivial Poursuivant: You don't read the Daily Heil by any chance?
    FFS! Harden up and grow a pair :D
  • fenix
    fenix Posts: 5,437
    That's an awful accusation !
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Maybe there might be cause for giving a member of local clubs some admin rights to have a look through and delete duplicates? I'm sure they have thought of moderators before and steered away from it though, throws up lots of issues. I imagine the way strava automatically hides certain segments from your ride is in response to this
  • trivial_poursuivant
    trivial_poursuivant Posts: 1,136
    Svetty wrote:
    @ Trivial Poursuivant: You don't read the Daily Heil by any chance?

    Right wing fascist shite? Not a chance. I’m a realist. And Strava is full of pointless segments . It needs a good spring clean.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,168
    Veronese68 wrote:
    As Ugo says the number of duplicates is ridiculous, Richmond Park must have hundreds.

    113 segments on my 12km ride home. And that only included half of it clockwise.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    Veronese68 wrote:
    As Ugo says the number of duplicates is ridiculous, Richmond Park must have hundreds.

    113 segments on my 12km ride home. And that only included half of it clockwise.
    Add in the other half of the park, both directions and the off road track it's probably heading for a four figure number. I actually had the KOM on a very short climb between Richmond and Sheen on the off road track a while back, probably a bit of a GPS hiccup helped me. But another ridiculously short segment that is really no achievement at all, especially now I've been beaten.
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  • w00dster
    w00dster Posts: 880
    Does it have to be an achievement? Its called King of the Mountain, so do you have to ride up a Mountain? I ride in Florida over the summer holidays, pan flat, not really windy - so there shouldn't be any strava segments?
    Its a tool for recording rides. I guess as I'm not in London I have a lot less segments to deal with. But on each ride there's probably only four or five I'm bothered about. For me its about personal choice.
    The downhill one I linked to is really interesting, no real skill but a fair amount of nuts needed. It can obviously be affected by the wind, I'm not worried about the overall leaderboard because of this, but its interesting data to see how other people fared on the same day. I did it into a head/cross wind at the weekend, on the same day a couple of people were over a minute faster than me on the 20 min section. Its just good to see the information. I can then think about whether I was taking things too easy, was I overly cautious, and just plain kudos to them.
    I do ride hilly rides a lot, in Snowdonia, so I completely understand the rationale of what is being said. However I just think that its wrong to just show a segment because it is tough.

    Just looked at the last club ride, 60 miles, 84 segments, probably 5 of them are of any interest to me. I can imagine the London boys have an awful lot more than that to sift through. Its no hardship to ignore the ones that aren't relevant to me.
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    JakeJ wrote:
    SloppySchleckonds wrote:
    Moonbiker wrote:
    Some people work really hard to get a KOM

    It's pathetic

    I assume you don't have any then?

    Bet you’ve got loads.
  • burnthesheep
    burnthesheep Posts: 675
    God forbid anyone would ever actually READ or follow terms of use when signing up for something.

    Apparently, the supposedly "most secretive" people in the world.......responsible for our national security (speaking from the US here)..........are so freaking stupid they just clicked "accept" and went about posting and using Strava in ways very questionable to their security clearances.

    Great job morons.

    Yet again, this age of our world moving to blame others instead of face the real thing to blame.......ourselves. "Oh, Strava is revealing secrets! It's dangerous!"

    Not it's not moron, YOU are.

    I'd subpoena Strava to get all the names and cross ref it to their security clearances, and if fitting, fire every one of the offenders.

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