Strava

It was more the point that Strava gets annoying for some when segments you're interested slowly get filled up with this kind of thing, i.e. the top 10 contains a load of car journeys and GPS lock glitches.

Since I never bother the top 10 it's not a problem for me. Strava is just a nice basic visual training log for me. For more visual detail I've got Garmin Connect or Golden Cheetah and for all of the stats in one place I've got a spreadsheet that I manually fill in (which I'm slowly trying to automate based on parsing the .fit files myself).

I use WKO3. I tend to upload any 'special' rides I do to Strava, like new audaxes and races but even those I've kinda slacked off on because exporting them from Connect always fails. #typicalgarminsoftware

https://blog.strava.com/new-on-strava-sponsored-integrations-and-more-17249/

sponsored integrations

Wtf happened to simple adverts?

We blocked them all.

I just installed a Sponsored Integration Blocker too.

pi-hole.net is my new favourite thing though I don't use Strava often enough to know what effect it will have on it.

Don't think you can block them. They're not separate adverts. They just annotate activities that someone has done on Sufferfest/Zwift/etc with a few extra bits. Here's an example from my feed:-

(So the only bits that are new are the "Sponsored" bit in the top right of the image, the name of the company bottom left and a "Learn more" link bottom right.

The new setting only turns it off for your own activities you do with sponsored integrations. It doesn't change the ones belonging to others that appear in your feed.

Minor really, but could be the start of the slippery slope.

Block all the divs with id="spammyspamface"?

The few times I do use it are to upload my own rides. I never look at the feeds.

People uploading Zwift/Trainerroad/turbo workouts >>>

Ride your bikes outside you fuckers. I might block everything with Zwift in it, on principle. :)

I got my first top 10 last night and managed to get two in one ride. 8th/699 on one segment and 7th/680 on another segment in Cork.

I'm quite pleased and wanted to tell someone.
Sore today though.
:)

Anyone else faced with a "build your community" page on the following tab of the android app this morning?

Strava now wants access to my contacts ffs. I pay for an account, why do I have to deal with all the shite changes that are no doubt stemming from monetisation?

Or it could be a loading bug.

Anyone else faced with a "build your community" page on the following tab

Just checked. Yes. Annoying.

How do I get rid of it?

It's gone now for me, maybe was just a bug

It was more the point that Strava gets annoying for some when segments you're interested slowly get filled up with this kind of thing, i.e. the top 10 contains a load of car journeys and GPS lock glitches.

I commute in London. Every single segment my Strava ever registered is filled with people doing it at 60km/h or more, doesn't matter how long it is, whether it's uphill or downhill, whether it goes through some intersections or not.

But what really annoys me is how Strava has ZERO data integrity check. Your GPS spazzed out and now you've done 300m at 180km/h? Not a problem, you're on the leaderboard now.

Say what?? How incredibly simple would it be to just put in a maximum speed allowable? Even putting it at 70km/h would at least get rid of of the GPS glitches.

Now - having said all that, I don't actually care much about it for my own sake. In the history of my cycling, I got one KOM, on a slightly obscure road / gravel / road track outside of Cambridge, where I was 'competing' with one other dude who had put up a realistic time. That was cool. But I know I don't have a chance of beating the 'pros' anyway, much less on a fixed gear bike - I'm not actually trying to get into the top 10 myself. However, it'd be nice if, when I do look up the leaderboard, I could marvel at people's actual achievements, instead of counting the GPS glitches.

I find it more annoying when it’s just out the realm of possibility. There is a climb on my regular route I use to see where I’m at form wise once a month and I was progressing up the top 20 then 10 and now some chump has taken 30 seconds of the KOM on what was a 2:15 segment.
But yeah they could take some simple steps to clean their data.

They don't even react to reported obvious shit. I was moving my missus up a segment while training for Revolve race and there's someone that actually wrote "garmin running in car haha" or some shit. Fuckheads.

Yeah it’s pretty crap.
Has to be effecting their business as people are becoming apethetic to the leader boards.

Just Sagan dropping by for a quick hill tour.

Dan Lloyd (GCN) has ridden a lot around where my folks live and is in the top 10 of loads of segments some by chance others that are more targeted and still not top of all of them but those above look genuine.
When you know you know...

I commute in London. Every single segment my Strava ever registered is filled with people doing it at 60km/h or more, doesn't matter how long it is, whether it's uphill or downhill, whether it goes through some intersections or not.

A lot of my commute (SW15 to SE1) is filled with 60kph people but that's because it follows most of the route of the London Surrey Classic and has had professionals riding it at that speed:-

https://www.strava.com/activities/1742059749/overview

A lot of the other ~57kph segments seem to be people who probably just got lucky with traffic lights and were drafting vehicles. Some of my PBs (still a way off the associated KOMs) on similar segments were gained exactly this way, and they're utterly untouchable by me now.

I don't think much of it is down to GPS glitches, I suspect there's more Digital EPO going on that random GPS problems.

I've also done most of my commuting route at ~4am on a faster bike with minimal luggage, with a tailwind, at the start of a 200km Audax. Again my times here are a lot better than riding my heavy commuter with 15kg of crap in the panniers on the way to work at 8.30am in heavy traffic.

I suspect there's more Digital EPO going on that random GPS problems

Who would alter their files to win KOMs yet make them obviously bullshit? It looks more like glitches to me unless people are actually uploading ridiculous files on purpose. But for what reason?

Actually, that might be a good way to get Strava to fix their shit. I might just doctor all my files and upload everything so I'm doing 100kph.

I don't think much of it is down to GPS glitches, I suspect there's more Digital EPO going on that random GPS problems.

Oh no there's definitely enough of that too. I don't usually look at many leaderboards, so I can't give you specific examples right now, but last time I checked a few, I saw plenty of KOMs at 120km/h, or e.g. one at 180km/h.

Otherwise, sure, there are quite a few KOMs by pros or semi-pros. In your example, looking at some of the KOMs listed: 57.6km/h on 'Putney Bridge to Eel Brook Common' - sure, totally legit; 49.8km/h on 'Curious Pleasures' - why not; 52.8km/h on 'Wimb Hill to Fulham' - yup. That does go some way to explain some of the higher numbers you see on there. However, there are still a number left where the top speeds are just unbelievable.