Just make a new segment in the same place.
Not really the point. If itās free itās not a huge deal.
If itās a premium service you have to pay for it should work correctly.
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I agree. Strava has never been good at policing. Some basic programming could flag vehicle and e-bike rides.
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Just chiming in on RWGPS if Iām in an unfamiliar area, I search routes that have what I want and I find plenty already made. I rarely have to make my own. Iād guess Strava and Komoot have the sameā¦
They do, but I like the freedom of making my own. Or perhaps say Iām starting at the south end and want to ride north and back south, while there is a premade RWGPS route that starts at the north and goes south and back up, itās a bit of a pain to A. Find that route as being ālocal to your starting pointā and B. Changing the start point.
With the Strava builder I donāt really have to worry about that, as it will simply keep me to the more popular cycling roads in whatever area Iām riding through.
Example: the NJ Gran Fondo starts up north in Morrisville NJ, comes south to Reigelsville, then back north. Well it makes way more sense for me to start in Riefelsville 30 minutes from home rather than driving 2 hours north to ride back south again. I havenāt found a way on RWGPS to drag and drop the start point on a loop, not that Strava is guaranteed to keep me on those roads but thatās one of the annoyances I have with premade routes as a whole
Stravaās new route builder is a major step up and seems to work well for me except for taking me on to the footpath where there is a great bike kane on one route I tried.
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I agree with this - their algorithm isnāt as effective as it either ought to be or users could reasonably expect it to be, given the large scale international ubiquity of the product and the relatively commonplace instances of manual flagging and incidences of E-bike or motorised vehicle activity on road bike segments.
Having said that - what do I know? - I have no programming or coding skills so am basing my expectations of their algorithmās effectiveness on a lack of sound relevant knowledge, I may be waaaaaay off in terms of my expectations being both unrealistic and unreasonable. 
Pics are only accessible via mobile, AFAIK.
Segments are open to users, so blame those I. Your area, bot Strava. No practical way for them to moderate impartially. Use the āhideā function and clean up what you donāt like, unfortunately.
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I mean if you donāt enjoy them, just ignore them? Being a non racer, segments are about the only competition I have, and thereās lots of healthy competition locally. As far as the overlapping segments, just hide them. Same can be done for the Zwift ones. I see some segments automatically hidden and am not sure why those get chosen vs others. Iād prefer to just see everything
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I have to admit I no longer see the point of many segments. 500+ watts for 30 minutes and a HR of 115 bpm, come on, its not (shouldnāt be) hard to spot these.
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Got a message back from Strava support about my segment being hidden right after getting a kom.
Appearantly it was just a regular algorithm (sp?) Check that decided that segment was not very popular and the system hid it. It had around 150 total riders on the leaderboards which is definitely a little smaller than the usual 500-1000 on most segments on this trail.
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That makes sense, and probably why a lot are hidden for me too. Even some that I have KOMs and top 10s on now re hidden by default. I usually look through the hidden stuff and just unhide them all so I have more to play with.
Right click the photo and choose one of the options like āSave images asā (you can snag fullres photos from anyone this way)
If you just want all your photos, do a Strava Bulk Export. All your pictures are included in the download.
You already can. Just go to the activity, edit, scroll down to the pictures section, click the picture and that āRemove Imageā menu pops up. Not the most discoverable UI, but itās there.
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If you read some of the support requests for Strava (different HR zones for different activities to name one) it seems like Strava are not trying to innovate new features. I donāt subscribe to Strava as I only use it for the social element. I subscribe to training peaks for my analysis and I used ridewithgps for route planning.
If Strava pulled their finger out and improved those features then it may be worth the investment but currently Strava is a jack of all trades but not a leader in any one (with the exception of leaderboards).
My stance is that if I canāt see anyone elses segments then no one is going to see mine. Iāve now turned all my historical activities to followers only so I do not appear on any leaderboards. I do have a few KOMs so they have disappeared too. If more people did the same then the leaderboards wouldnāt have the same pull as they once did.
I would happily pay for Strava if I could combine training analysis and route planning (on the same level as training peaks and rwgps). Until then Iām not bothered about paying ,Ā£48 for segments. Garmin segments are free and although a bit clunky, I can get what I want from those.
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Ok since the ānewā strava direction of focusing on their paid subscribers, has anyone else logged a support ticket and had it answered? I am at 21days with no response so far (5yr+ paid subscriber). The complete opposite of TR support which are so so prompt and proactively follow up.
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Same, I havenāt been able to get a peep out of them sending up 3 tickets in 3 weeks
It took them a month to answer mine but I put it down to the virus disrupting everything.
Iām still paying ā¬2,99/month and iām willing to keep paying that to see the leaderboards.
I used to use Strava Summit to see the training data but I have Trainer Road for that now.
But for me the most important thing are power PRās, since the segments are not really representative of real effort.
The segments (especially here in the flat Netherlands) are IMO more about having luck with a tailwind than actual power.
Would be nicer to have them rated by (real)power over time rather than speed over time.
But that would exclude a lot of users.
If they are going to raise the monthly fee iām out.
Open your Strava account, and you should see the pending renewal price and date. If you were paying for one of the Summit packs, you will likely see a price increase for the regular Subscription pricing.
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For now its still 2,99 for next month.
But I will keep an eye on it.
Not surprised if they change it at the last momentā¦
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