Re: strava. yay or nay?
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:07 am
Phew. Thank you for clearing up that mystery
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https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=15280
According to Strava "athletes create segments" and I've not seen anything to suggest that Strava does anything like auto create a segment. It would be very difficult to do when you think about it. I've only created two segments both of which had been ridden many times before so if Strava did auto create then it would have done it before I did. I've also ridden rides like the Rovaniemi 150 that has a few segments on it but not the obvious climbs and downhills which would be obvious contenders for auto create. It's possible that someone has created a segment but not ridden it.gairym wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:29 amMe too. That's what I'm saying, it's only me and I've never created a segment (unless there's a setting that I'm unaware of that means I'm doing it automatically???).ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:18 amIt has auto-created for me. I have a KOM where I'm the only person to have ridden the segment. I didn't create the segment.Strava doesn't auto-create segments
Out of curiosity, are all these segments climbs?gairym wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:48 am Mine has two pages of 'created segments' but I've never created a single one (intentionally) and so can only assume that somewhere deep in the belly of the beast there's a clickable thingy that at some point has been en-clickened and not creates segments at certain times, under certain circumstances or for certain reasons.
Curious. I can only think it was one of their experimental "lab" features. I've never had that happen to me even when I've been very "off-piste". I created one of my segments in Oct 2012 - https://www.strava.com/segments/2563596, if Strava were auto-creating segments then that would have already been done as it's a popular cycle route.ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:39 am I did not create this segment.
https://www.strava.com/segments/6185075
It does show in my "Created Segments" list, but Strava did it automatically.
Yeah, they seem to be.ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:49 amOut of curiosity, are all these segments climbs?gairym wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:48 am Mine has two pages of 'created segments' but I've never created a single one (intentionally) and so can only assume that somewhere deep in the belly of the beast there's a clickable thingy that at some point has been en-clickened and not creates segments at certain times, under certain circumstances or for certain reasons.
The one I linked to was a Cat 4 climb and named similarly.jam bo wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 2:13 pm it definitely went through a phase of auto-creating segments. always climbs, i think it was if they reached their cat4 status (lengthxgrade > 8000).
I have a bunch of KoM's on the remoter, boggier parts of dartmoor, mostly named A386 climb as thats the nearest road.