Freezing Saddles Scoreboard backend "soft launch"

[hozn]

@ronwalf 71741 wrote:

One of the privacy settings for Strava is to require permission to follow a user before seeing a list of their rides. I have this one set.

So you can see my rides if you follow me, have a direct link to the ride, or are a member of one of the same clubs as me (not entirely sure on the last one). The FS site adds a new way.

I think removing that page or making it only accessible to challenge members would alleviate a number of the privacy issues Peter mentioned?

I didn’t realize that having a direct link would allow a non-follower to see the ride. That throws a wrench in my idea of linking to the rides from that recent rides page.

jrenaut, maybe we should change that to only show summary information rather than ride titles, etc.?

[Mikey]

Sorry if you had the same problem and fixed it already. I am a member of Bike Arlington Strava Club, I posted a 1.9 mile ride yesterday to try out the program. My ride registered on Strava but didn’t record on Freezing Saddles.

[Tim Kelley]

@peterw_diy 71679 wrote:

e.g., hopefully Tim doesn’t mind my seeing where he bought his Christmas tree last weekend and how he got it home.

Sure don’t! That’s kind of why I posted it–so you’d be inspired to go get one yourself! (I also put it on Twitter, Facebook and Imgur and Reddit…)

[americancyclo]

@hozn 71742 wrote:

I threw in the towel on privacy a long time ago

I’m with you on this.
@hozn 71742 wrote:

Allowing people to connect on Strava seems particularly valuable to me; I really enjoyed following people on other teams, etc. Much of that interaction was via Strava. (Strava does not have to be about KOMs; this challenge is probably a great example of purely social Strava.)

I think about 90% of my interaction with strava is in a purely social context. Sure the KOMs make things competitive, but not of their own accord. There has to be some buy-in from the user as well.

I’m all for instituting any changes that the developers are willing to implement, but I don’t want them to overwork themselves, since it’s a labor of love. I think we all need to make a decision based on our personal tolerances for privacy when it comes to any situation. For some, they have no issue, for others, they may choose to opt out.

Thanks hozn, jrenaut, and ronwalf for your hard work!

[americancyclo]

The Average Speed seems off. some examples:

TimK
Aerobar MTB Pete’s-Gravel-Grinder-50K (4x KOMs in Memory of Paul Walker)
Freezing Saddles:6.4
Strava:14.3

ShawnG
12/10/2013 riding the GGB before my flight
Freezing Saddles:5.6
Strava:12.6

[Tim Kelley]

@americancyclo 71750 wrote:

Aerobar MTB Pete’s-Gravel-Grinder-50K (4x KOMs in Memory of Paul Walker)

That Paul Walker really knew how to wear a pair of jeans well. He will be missed.

[Jason B]

@americancyclo 71749 wrote:

Thanks hozn, jrenaut, and ronwalf for your hard work!

I am really looking forward to this fun competition for the first time. I am very grateful for all the hard work all of you are doing to make this happen. I would have blown up ten times already and probably would have been banned from the forum and possibly the sport by now.

[ronwalf]

@americancyclo 71749 wrote:

Thanks hozn, jrenaut, and ronwalf for your hard work!

I can’t take any credit this year – it’s all hozn and jrenaut! I’m still harboring a vague hope of put together a pointless prize before the deadline.

[hozn]

@americancyclo 71750 wrote:

The Average Speed seems off. some examples:

TimK
Aerobar MTB Pete’s-Gravel-Grinder-50K (4x KOMs in Memory of Paul Walker)
Freezing Saddles:6.4
Strava:14.3

ShawnG
12/10/2013 riding the GGB before my flight
Freezing Saddles:5.6
Strava:12.6

Damn — more units errors! I will get this fixed, but yeah, I’m guessing those are in meters per second? I believe that is the metric that Strava uses internally and I obviously did not correctly convert them on insert to miles-per-hour. Thank goodness I’m not trying to land something on Mars.

[americancyclo]

@hozn 71761 wrote:

Damn — more units errors! I will get this fixed, but yeah, I’m guessing those are in meters per second? I believe that is the metric that Strava uses internally and I obviously did not correctly convert them on insert to miles-per-hour. Thank goodness I’m not trying to land something on Mars.

Great opportunity to get BA Forum folks on the metric system with the rest of the world!

[Mikey]

@americancyclo 71781 wrote:

Great opportunity to get BA Forum folks on the metric system with the rest of the world!

Whoa there, slow your roll “Euro”cylco. I’ll continue to measure my ride in Rods and Furlongs As Jesus intended.

[dbb]

@Mikey 71783 wrote:

Whoa there, slow your roll “Euro”cylco. I’ll continue to measure my ride in Rods and Furlongs As Jesus intended.

And the only acceptable units to express velocity are furlongs per fortnight

[americancyclo]

@Mikey 71783 wrote:

Whoa there, slow your roll “Euro”cylco. I’ll continue to measure my ride in Rods and Furlongs As Jesus intended.

Well it sure isn’t ‘muricancyclo’

[cyclingfool]

@americancyclo 71781 wrote:

Great opportunity to get BA Forum folks on the metric system with the rest of the world!

Great point, although the basic metric measure for speed of this sort is usually kph.

m/s is reserved in common parlance for wind speed, at least in Eastern Europe. Why they didn’t just stick to kph for wind speed, too, I’ll never understand.

[cyclingfool]

@hozn 71734 wrote:

It is supposed to update every 15 minutes. Is it possible that you are not a member of the BikeArlington Strava club? Right now we only update accounts that are a members of one of the teams (obviously BikeArlington isn’t a real team; it was just chosen as I assumed most people would belong to that club).

It’s also possible — even likely! — that there are more glitches in the sync algorithm. I noticed that we seem to have exceeded one of the Strava rate limits yesterday; I need to clean up the syncing code so that when we do the “full resync” every night we don’t actually refetch all ride segments in addition to all the rides (unless the distance for a ride somehow changed or something).

Thanks for all your work on the back end stuff!!! Having studies Pascal (of all things) in high school comp. sci. and dabbled with teaching myself some very basic Java, I am blown away by people that can actually do this sort of stuff.

Like acl, my rides are not appearing. I thought I’d figured it out when I realized I hadn’t joined the Bike Arlington club on Strava, buy I’ve done that now and given the FS page 30-45 min to see me and sync the couple rides I’d logged on Strava this week to help test with the soft launch, including one just this AM.

I’m Eric W when not going by my forum name…

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