Freezing Saddles Scoreboard backend "soft launch"

[hozn]

@Jason B 72062 wrote:

Curious, Is there a way to check the competition from the strava site, like a club icon? I currently have to go through the link at the beginning of this thread, which is totally fine, but I just wanted to check if i was missing something.

Once there are teams, we could probably add URLs to the team descriptions, though I don’t know how convenient that would be.

Probably there should be a sticky thread created with the URL, the team members, the rules, etc. — once teams have been chosen.

But in the interim it shouldn’t be *too* hard to remember freezingsaddles.com !

[hozn]

Just to update, I think that the bugs that have been identified thus far have been fixed. Obviously with only a single team we’re not executing all codepaths here, but I’m feeling pretty good about the state of the scoreboard app.

Major changes since initial test launch:
– A number of bug fixes related to the syncing. If you are a member of BikeArlington club *and* not seeing rides/data since Dec 1, please let me know!
– Improved privacy by using only firstname + lastinitial (or as many letters as we need of last name to disambiguate). Links are made to Strava profiles to encourage competitors to connect on Strava. We can revisit this if there is concern, but Strava does also provide a mechanism to make ride data private / for followers only.
– Text versions of the leaderboards. These are designed to model the format of last year’s official leaderboards. I’ve updated the homepage to only link to the team leaderboards, since those are really the only ones that matter.

I have not yet added the rules, but plan to.

The benefit of having Strava be the authoritative datasource is that we can continue to evolve the app and even if we accidentally break things and wipe out the database we can just reconstruct all the data with the next sync from Strava. It’s a very low-stress operation — and encourages experimentation/innovation with the site.

[dasgeh]

@hozn 72070 wrote:

If you are a member of BikeArlington club *and* not seeing rides/data since Dec 1, please let me know!

Me.

[birddog]

Me too!

[Mikey]

Should you run a week long test with multiple teams? Even if only 2 teams just to make sure that part is running well. Just a thought, not trying to tell you what to do, since you have done a great job already.

[americancyclo]

aww yeah, leadin’ the sleazin’ for Dec 2013!

[hozn]

@dasgeh & @birddog — ok, I will investigate that. Obviously not all syncing bugs have been fixed!

@Mikey, yes, that is a great idea. I just need to find another team that people are a member of … but then people have to “leave” the BikeArlington team. Or we just make two new clubs and divide people up randomly. I have tested with multiple teams on my system, so I don’t *expect* issues, but then I also expected that dasgeh and birddog would be seeing their rides

Also, if it goes out the door Jan 1 with some bugginess we’ll be able to correct and nothing will be permanently mis-scored, etc. Again that’s just the advantage of having all the local data & calculations be ephemeral and easy to re-create (or fix) by re-pulling data from Strava. Of course, we don’t want to have an incorrect leaderboard, even on day 1.

[Amalitza]

@hozn 72140 wrote:

@Mikey, yes, that is a great idea. I just need to find another team that people are a member of … but then people have to “leave” the BikeArlington team. Or we just make two new clubs and divide people up randomly. I have tested with multiple teams on my system, so I don’t *expect* issues, but then I also expected that dasgeh and birddog would be seeing their rides

You could probably use last year’s teams for pre-season testing if you wanted. I know I haven’t unjoined my team in Strava, I bet other people haven’t either.

[hozn]

@acl 72144 wrote:

You could probably use last year’s teams for pre-season testing if you wanted. I know I haven’t unjoined my team in Strava, I bet other people haven’t either.

That is a good idea. I will look at doing that, though it may leave some people out of testing phase for a couple weeks.

[Mikey]

You could just put me on a second team with someone else. The teams don’t have to be even or make any sense, its just a test.

[hozn]

@birddog 72111 wrote:

Me too!

Birddog, I’m not sure who you are in freezing saddles / strava. If you don’t see your name at all, maybe try re-authorizing the application: http://freezingsaddles.com/authorize

On the result page of the authorization, the app will tell you if there are any errors (like if you are not a member of any competition teams).

I notice the following people do not appear to be members of BikeArlington club:
– Carol C
– robert s

If you are one of those people, then please just double check that you have “joined” the bikearlington club: http://www.strava.com/clubs/bikearlington

I emailed dasgeh seperately, but it sounds she also may simply need to re-authorize. (There was a time early on when there were some bugs on initial authorization for certain accounts; that could explain both cases.)

[cvcalhoun]

I’m Carol C., and I’ve now followed the link to join the BikeArlington club.

I must say, the process so far has been cumbersome. I’ve had to join this forum, join Strava, authorize BikeArlington Freezing Saddles as an app on Strava, and join the BikeArlington club on Strava. And the only way I’ve gotten this far is to subscribe to the forum, which means I get notified of a whole lot of posts in which I have no interest in order to get notices of the posts which tell me what I need to do to enter. Would there be some way to have a topic to which only administrators could post, that could include a set of instructions for what to do to enter, so that people could just follow that topic instead of following every post on this forum? @hozn 72150 wrote:

Birddog, I’m not sure who you are in freezing saddles / strava. If you don’t see your name at all, maybe try re-authorizing the application: http://freezingsaddles.com/authorize

On the result page of the authorization, the app will tell you if there are any errors (like if you are not a member of any competition teams).

I notice the following people do not appear to be members of BikeArlington club:
– Carol C
– robert s

If you are one of those people, then please just double check that you have “joined” the bikearlington club: http://www.strava.com/clubs/bikearlington

I emailed dasgeh seperately, but it sounds she also may simply need to re-authorize. (There was a time early on when there were some bugs on initial authorization for certain accounts; that could explain both cases.)

[cvcalhoun]

Carol C (a/k/a cvcalhoun) is now a member of BikeArlington club, and showing on the leaderboard. @hozn 72150 wrote:

Birddog, I’m not sure who you are in freezing saddles / strava. If you don’t see your name at all, maybe try re-authorizing the application: http://freezingsaddles.com/authorize

On the result page of the authorization, the app will tell you if there are any errors (like if you are not a member of any competition teams).

I notice the following people do not appear to be members of BikeArlington club:
– Carol C
– robert s

If you are one of those people, then please just double check that you have “joined” the bikearlington club: http://www.strava.com/clubs/bikearlington

I emailed dasgeh seperately, but it sounds she also may simply need to re-authorize. (There was a time early on when there were some bugs on initial authorization for certain accounts; that could explain both cases.)

[Subby]

Just blue-skying but would love it if this screen could be expanded: http://freezingsaddles.com/people

Some ideas:

– Give users the option to view by week/month/competition-to-date

– Add additional data like avg spd, elevation, time in the saddle, avg temp

– link to strava profile

Anyway – I love all of it. So great.

[culimerc]

Should I be concerned that I did not see my name on that list?

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