New Strava Features Announced (May 2024)

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Strava and Bumble :rofl:

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I just hope they donā€™t put anymore announcements and suggestions on my Home Screen.

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I cancelled my Strava paying membership a year or two ago because I saw so many clearly erroneous or fake KOM entries in my area. Strava was also impossible to contact about such issues - I could flag an activity with a clear explanation and Iā€™d never get a response. It would be great if AI cleaned up the leaderboards, but Iā€™m very skeptical. Iā€™ll wait to see the results before I start paying again.

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For years Iā€™ve flagged obvious ā€œleft bike computer onā€ KOMs and they were immediately and permanently removed. No response required, Strava just took care of it.

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for subscribers only an ā€˜AI Betaā€™ will use your activity data and, combined with your goals, offer workout guidance to help users maximise their potential

Wonder how that will work? I donā€™t pay for Strava so :person_shrugging:

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And Strava wants to pair with this co?

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Ha ha! Oh wait, youā€™re serious, let me laugh even harder.

(eh, to be fair Iā€™m an old married guy. Maybe itā€™s actually a good idea?)

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Any mention on adding 2FA?

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New feature coming soon :

ā€œ It uses machine learning to analyse the data from every ride, run, walk, and hike and offers guidance to help you get more out of your next workout.ā€

This could be interesting.

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Regarding the segment boards ML news: Iā€™m a tech lead but it was news to me when someone told me the other day that some companies call a bunch of manually coded rules ā€˜machine learning.ā€™ Strava could have created these tools years ago anyway with some standard querying. Iā€™m glad the recently added CEO has brought fresh energy though!

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If itā€™s like any of the other platforms offering machine learning/ai to analyze and guide your training I wonā€™t hold out much hope on it being worthwhile.

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If itā€™s anything like their current analysis of your workouts I would suggest they donā€™t bother.

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You have to have AI now, whether itā€™s useful or not itā€™s a box that needs checking.

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I dunno, from a high-level they all seem similar. A lot of talk about analyzing your data, and telling you what to do and how the data insights make it ā€œright.ā€

Training is surprisingly simple, yet few want to master the fundamentals.

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Butā€¦ itā€™s not April 1ā€¦ I donā€™t get it.

(It has to be a joke, right? There are enough creepy posts on womenā€™s rides on strava already.)

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Iā€™ve had the same (positive) experience with e-bike KOMs I flagged. I also flagged a local segment that blew through a 4-way stop sign, and that got taken down too.

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And to be clear, you canā€™t flag on the app. So in a mobile you have to pull Strava on a browser to flag an activity.

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