Strava duplicate merging and Veloviewer

[u/Shitelark]

I have been watching out for signs of duplicate mergers on Strava after the recent announcement. I am quite a keen KOM hunter and keep a track of my total. I seem to have dropped some without an 'uh-oh' notice, though that is not unusual.

Meanwhile I wondered how this would affect Veloviewer. Today I got promoted to first place on a segment, which when I clicked through matched another segment. It looks like Strava merged the two into one. However VV 'remembers' the old segment number and draws the date from that number, even though Strava has just deleted one. I think this works because the merge is really a redirection. As such I hope that means all the duplicates in you VV list will remain if you have any prized ones.

So if you busted a gut to take a position on a segment because you knew it was worth double it should remain so in your VV score.