[kenned3]

I gave up on Strava long ago and now only use it to "benchmark" myself. How well did i do on this ride vs the last time i took this trip?

The cheating on Strava is just shameful. you often see people with impressive KOM scores, but then check their ride history and it is pathetic and clear they cheated. Someone with 3 rides and an average speed of just 8km/h posting a 55KM climb up a 6 Degree incline? Sure...

As the other guy posted, strava's DEV's need to do more to stop this. Cross-reference the KOM with the rider's history.. or even just exclude things that are simply not possible??

I've had my GPS mess up, and sometimes post that i was traveling hundreds of KM/h and flagged those trips myself.. I would think that an average speed of 833 km/h should be a red flag for strava as well, but it wasnt?

Lastly, i fail to understand the whole point of cheating in the first place. Great, you got KOM on something, and everyone saw this, knows you cheated and so?

[smackeyacky]

I gave up on it, but for a different reason. Strava is basically "done" in that all the roads have been ridden tens of thousands (and even hundreds of thousands) of times. Take away the cheating and the ranking on climbs just becomes ossified over time. It basically started out as a fun activity and turned into a public performance that nobody else cared about.

There are plenty of other apps out there you can use to track your personal progress that don't have the "social" bit attached.

[spearo77]

I've been enjoying this one– https://wandrer.earth/

The game mechanic is novel and I'm surprised how many good areas I've been purely because I'm looking for trails I've never been before.

[kenned3]

Strava's social aspect is easy to control. Dont follow anyone, and you can even boot others who follow you. You can also mark yourself "follow by request" which seems to facilitate cheating as well (you can see their KOM, but not their rides?).

This speaks to the changes strava needs to make. if the rider is "by invite only" all KOM's should be hidden as well.

Strava does a decent job tracking myself, and once i turned off all the social. media aspects and stopped looking at other riders it became much better.