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CityStrides

@CityStrides

4 years

Twenty Thousand People 😳 It’s rewarding and so much fun to build something that so many people use and enjoy Thanks for running with CityStrides! 🏃🏿‍♀️🏃🏻🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏾🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏿

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4 years

🤩 just passed the 30k member marker 🤩 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏾‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼‍♂️🏃🏿‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️ I'm thrilled to be working on this project and thankful that so many people find it useful & fun

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@CityStrides

4 years

🎉 Very excited about this! 🎉 Finally testing out the code that will update CityStrides with new edits in OpenStreetMap! 🤔 This might be one of the biggest days in CityStrides history 😀

Now Testing: City street/node updates

🎉 I’ve got some code that will update CityStrides data from OpenStreetMap. Your edits in OSM will soon make their way into CityStrides! I’m testing it out on cities one by one, so I can see how long...

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@CityStrides

4 years

Wow, already at 22k people! It wasn’t that long ago that the 20k milestone was reached

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@CityStrides

4 years

Twenty Thousand People 😳 It’s rewarding and so much fun to build something that so many people use and enjoy Thanks for running with CityStrides! 🏃🏿‍♀️🏃🏻🏃🏾‍♀️🏃🏼🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏾🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏿

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@CityStrides

5 years

Wow! Collectively, we've completed 1.29 million streets in 40,000 cities

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@CityStrides

4 years

I should tweet about milestones more often, all these replies have me feeling really good about the effort I put into this project ☺️

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@CityStrides

3 years

Wow! There are now over 44,000 of us, with all the new people showing up from the NYT story ( 👋 Welcome! ) #CityStrides #everysinglestreet #runeverystreet

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@CityStrides

5 years

👋 @StravaEng @StravaSupport I hope you're all safe & healthy! Are you fielding API support requests at the developers email? Ticket 2950 (& follow up 2992) have gone unresponsive. I'm unable to keep up with member activities. The CityStrides community needs your help!

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@CityStrides

4 years

A bittersweet glimpse into finishing a massive project There are people who can't join in It pains me that I can't fix this Early on I had people who couldn't safely join in publicly I could help with that by adding custom privacy I can't fix racism

was supposed to have been a triumph

A little less than two years ago, a coworker in the job that I had just started introduced himself by saying that he had “run 73% of the streets in Seattle”. When I asked him how he kne…

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@CityStrides

5 years

Woo! My proof-of-concept script to automatically load one city’s street data completed successfully. I need to improve its performance before I run it globally, but it looks like it’ll work.

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@CityStrides

3 years

Gareth is one of us

Gareth Wild

@GarethWild

3 years

For the last six years I’ve kept a spreadsheet listing every parking spot I’ve used at the local supermarket in a bid to park in them all. This week I completed my Magnum Opus! A thread.

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@CityStrides

3 years

Today’s (now resolved) activity processing delays were brought to you by 🤦‍♂️people who record their international flights as walks

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@CityStrides

3 years

I was not emotionally prepared to see the top two 😳 They both have completed over TWELVE THOUSAND STREETS One has activities in TWENTY COUNTRIES 🤯 I need to lie down

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CityStrides

@CityStrides

4 years

A 🎉brand new🎉 Route Builder tool is now available to supporters! Draw out your route, seeing its distance as you build it. Show/hide streets while building, to make sure you get them all. View it while out to help you stay on course. Read more here:

Updates on February 15, 2021

The biggest piece of this release is a brand new Route Builder tool. 💪 Supporters can access this from any map throughout the site - I think it most closely aligns with your city view page, though...

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@CityStrides

4 years

🎉 Step one of the brand new Garmin integration! If you're a supporter, and you're piping your activities through another service just to get into CityStrides - put that service on pause & directly connect Garmin instead!

New: Garmin Integration -- Available To EVERYONE

Important Notes: Logging in with Garmin is coming soon In your Settings page (top right menu), everyone will see a new activity tracker listed. Click the Connect button to connect your Garmin account...

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CityStrides

@CityStrides

3 years

Lots of new people arriving today! 👋👋 The good news is that I’ve improved the automation around my server infrastructure so that this won’t break everything 😃🤓 The bad news is that activity syncing can be delayed & this isn’t displayed in the status page yet 😬😅

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@CityStrides

4 years

🎉Just released a massive performance improvement to all the maps in the site ... assuming I didn't break anything along the way 😅

Updates on January 27, 2021

The biggest part of this release is that the map display code has been completely rewritten. In the old version, every page that had a map on it was its own island. It was a completely isolated map...

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@CityStrides

5 years

@MikeSenior Please. My servers. They are so tired. They beg of you - knitting, Netflix, anything but another run. 😂🤣

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@CityStrides

2 years

Now I *very badly* want to create a Run The Dragon challenge that closely follows the original drawing 😅

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@CityStrides

4 years

🎉With the help of Lee, in the CityStrides forum, heaps of new Australian cities are being added right now! #everysinglestreet #runeverystreet

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@CityStrides

3 years

Thank you

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@CityStrides

2 years

Nodevember! All members are invited to this month’s global competition and collaboration. We all participate by completing as many streets as we can in the month of November. Our combined efforts, around the world, are showcased during the event. #everysinglestreet

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@CityStrides

3 years

Jeez where are you all coming from? 😆😅

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@CityStrides

3 years

coffee is fine and all but it doesn't really do the job that waking up to site-wide downtime does 😴😵‍💫😮

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@CityStrides

5 years

Happy with the performance improvement that just went out ... profile pages and individual activity pages should now load faster 🏃‍♀️ 🏃

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@CityStrides

3 years

Just released: Global Rank 🏆see where you stand, compared to everyone else in CityStrides ... shown on the logged-in homepage and everyone's profile page I also included some back end changes that open the door to per-city ranking

Updates on April 25, 2021 (Release 85)

🆕 Your global rank is now shown on your profile page and the homepage 🆕 Your rank in each Challenge is displayed on the on homepage 🛠 Only active Challenges are shown on the homepage 🛠 Some...

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@CityStrides

6 years

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! So. Many. New. People. Please please please find the patience to wait for the activities to sync over ... it’s going to take a few days to get through these 10+ million jobs 😬

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@CityStrides

5 years

Finally removed all of the old city data

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@CityStrides

3 years

What part of #runeverystreet is harder than it should be for you? Not the running part. That part doesn’t count. Pick a different part. 😆🤣

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@CityStrides

3 years

Finally got the avatar situation in order ... head over to your Settings page to upload your good-lookin' self Other updates:

Updates on December 4, 2021 (Release 449)

The biggest change, recently, is that I finally got user-uploaded avatars finished up. Head over to your Settings page to upload your avatar today. 😃 📸 weeerrrrrk 📷 add the ability to upload your...

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@CityStrides

4 years

OK, back to working on this route builder 😃🤫

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@CityStrides

5 years

Amazing! One of our fellow Striders is celebrating their 10,000th street completed

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@CityStrides

4 years

Would it be confusing to you if Node Hunter, only on city pages, limited the nodes it displayed to just that city? - Node Hunter on a city page: only show unfinished nodes within view AND within city boundary - Node Hunter on any other map: show unfinished nodes within view

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@CityStrides

4 years

Me deciding how I’m going to reply to people “complaining” (you all don’t actually COMPLAIN about this) about new streets being added from an OSM update

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@CityStrides

5 years

Second day in a row of reaching Strava's API limits :-( Keep an eye on for the daily API call to reset Thanks for your patience!

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@CityStrides

4 years

It’s a little release today... Some fixes Some design improvements

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@CityStrides

5 years

😫😓 It looks like I'm going to spend about $1.5k out of pocket this month for this global data coverage project. If you've been thinking about becoming a Supporter, it would be REALLY great if you did that this month. 😬

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@CityStrides

5 years

Wow, today was the biggest day of @sidekiq background jobs for the site - more than 22 million jobs were processed today! Also just exceeded 7 billion total jobs. You all run too much. 😄😂🤣

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@CityStrides

6 years

I think we all agree with @BethSkw on this one, yeah?

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@CityStrides

4 years

I've just released an update that addresses the issue of duplicate street counts. There's still some work to fully resolve the issue, and I could use your help. Check out the details here if you're interested in helping:

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6 years

Woah!!! Seven thousand people! That’s so wild: from me talking to friends about some “crazy” idea I had to 7,000 people all joining in and accomplishing WAY more than I ever intended. I’m humbled every day by how much better everyone around me is. I love it. I hope I can keep up.

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@CityStrides

9 years

Way to go, #global5k runners! Have fun out there!

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@CityStrides

2 years

LifeMap Posters, Featured Challenges, and a lot of design fixes ... check out the details in today's hefty release notes

Updates on April 28, 2022 (Release 543)

🆕 18" x 24" LifeMap Posters You choose the city and the poster orientation, a preview is generated for you, then you can click to buy I’ve already done two LifeMap Poster test prints, and they look...

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@CityStrides

2 years

Psyched to be formalizing Nodevember this year A global competition and collaboration to complete as many streets as possible in one month ...more details after I finish building this page 😅 #everysinglestreet #runeverystreet #citystrides

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@CityStrides

4 years

Wow! 🤩 Crossed the threshold of 30 billion completed @sidekiq jobs

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@CityStrides

3 years

Subscriptions (prepaid or recurring) are no longer tied to USD - you can now pay in your currency 🎉 no more bank fees or conversion costs

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@CityStrides

3 years

It was a lot of fun to speak with Mitch Smith about all of your achievements. The photo shoot with Yehyun Kim was fantastic, though I do feel bad for the amount of (probably unexpected) running she had to do. 😄

One Cure for Pandemic Doldrums: Walking Every Street in Your City (Gift Article)

In Peoria, Ill., and elsewhere, pedestrians said their quests brought a sense of purpose and helped them appreciate long-overlooked hometown sights.

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@CityStrides

8 years

No, seriously. You all run WAY too much. Try just, I don’t know… try sitting for a bit. #SponsoredByMyCryingDatabase

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@CityStrides

3 years

Just released... ranking within each city 🏆 Your city lists will now show your rank, and the list of people on each city page includes their rank

Updates on April 28, 2021 (Release 87)

🆕 Include your count of total activities on the homepage 🆕 Show your percentile ranking next to your global rank 🆕 Show your ranking within each city 🛠 Add some text to the status page if the...

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@CityStrides

7 years

Kicking around the idea of providing large printed posters of your running… What do you think?

Large printed poster of your running

I’ve got this idea of making posters available for purchase, and I’m wondering what you all think about it… I had a version printed with my own running that looks like this - it’s about 18" x 24":...

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@CityStrides

4 years

That and I’m humbled by everyone else’s effort in THEIR project You’re all putting in a great effort! I’m just here to help!

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@CityStrides

4 years

Go me! 😆

James Chevalier

@JamesChevalier

4 years

I've run 15% of Easthampton! #CityStrides

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@CityStrides

4 years

Today's release includes clickable nodes in Node Hunter I'm still looking into adding more info to the popup, but this seemed like it was useful enough to release now

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@CityStrides

4 years

Ooh, nice improvement on the way to Node Hunter: click the nodes to see info (street name, city name) and links (go to the street, city pages) Is there any other information you would like to see when clicking/tapping on nodes in Node Hunter?

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@CityStrides

4 years

A couple nice improvements released today: 🆕 LifeMap gets Re-Run: See you're life(map) flash before your eyes 🆕 Node Hunter gets a reset button

Updates on March 17, 2021

Today brings a brand new feature as well as an improvement to an existing one. LifeMap gets Re-Run: See your life(map) flash before your very eyes! 😆 While you’re on any page that holds your LifeMap...

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@CityStrides

6 years

Activity imports are paused while I increase the size of the disk holding the database. You all run too much. 😄

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@CityStrides

2 years

New today: the ability to purchase your LifeMap Poster is now publicly available - with your choice of print & digital or just digital

Updates on August 3, 2022 (Release 581)

The main update here is that the ability to purchase a LifeMap Poster is publicly displayed throughout the site. It also includes the ability to purchase just a digital version. 🆕 add ability to...

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@CityStrides

4 years

Just released a nice update to the Route Builder! 🚀 Now instead of having to click Every. Single. Little. Step. you can click anywhere and it'll automatically create a route to that point. (you can switch back to straight-line mode if you need to, though)

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@CityStrides

6 years

I love it when people share photos from their run/walk in #citystrides (here & Instagram). It’s a whole other aspect of exploration I hadn’t considered.

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@CityStrides

6 years

@rickeygates @rvh95 Thanks for sharing! I’ve got some route planning ideas in the works - I’m thinking “give me a route that connects {these streets}” kinda stuff… I’ll need to talk with Striders to make sure I’m considering everything…

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@CityStrides

2 years

We're 7 days away from #GlobalRunningDay Plan your route to further our collective effort How many streets can we complete around the world in a single day? #RunEveryStreet #running

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@CityStrides

4 years

The @lifehacker fitness challenge this month is to run/walk somewhere new I can help with that 😉

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@CityStrides

3 years

🆕🆕🆕 - Opt in to notifications when cities are updated from OSM - Create your own Challenges

Updates on May 21, 2021 (Release 95)

🆕 Add Notifications for city updates Go into your Settings page (linked in the top right menu), go into the Notifications section, check the box for cities to watch & click the Save button After...

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@CityStrides

5 years

I've got a beta version of the LifeMap available to subscribers 🔥🚀 performance 🚀🔥 Check out the details here:

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@CityStrides

5 years

Just got an email that I’m extremely excited about! I have to read through some documentation to be sure, but if it all works out there’s going to be a new way to log into CityStrides pretty soon...!!!

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@CityStrides

5 years

@rickeygates 👋 Everybody in 😆

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@CityStrides

7 years

Playing around with different running visualizations using the @Mapbox whaam! style for #weekendmaphack

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@CityStrides

3 years

Today's update is a result of feedback in the forum. Thanks everyone! - Private user progress is displayed in city user lists, so you have a better view of your standing - The rankings skip in case of ties e.g. 1,1,1,4,5,5,7

Updates on April 30, 2021 (Release 88)

🆕 Address Ranking by City not showing everyone by displaying private users in city lists as anonymized stats … Hopefully this helps you have a clearer view of where you stand in city rankings 🛠...

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@CityStrides

2 years

Just released an update that gives *everyone* the ability to toggle their LifeMap on *any* page

Updates on August 11, 2022 (Release 592)

I don’t usually like to post release notes early in the day, just in case I release more stuff later on, but this is a big change & I want to give space for bug reports. 🛠 The LifeMap toggle is now...

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@CityStrides

6 years

Another way to make running fun is to run literally everywhere 😆😂🤣

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@CityStrides

2 years

@RunEveryStreet I wanted to know *roughly* how many miles The Dragon is, so I quickly tapped out the outline… This thing would be at least 55 miles

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@CityStrides

3 years

Today's update is all about setting things up for tomorrow. I'm really excited about what's possible now. More soon!... 🚀

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@CityStrides

8 years

This is *crazy* to me … We’re running in over 12 THOUSAND cities!

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4 years

I could use your help, if you love CityStrides & wouldn’t mind sharing a few words

I need your help with testimonials

👋 A good friend of mine, Maggie Bergin, is going to fix up lots of marketing content & overall copy throughout the site. I’m psyched because CityStrides needs this & she has the expertise to deliver...

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@CityStrides

4 years

Congratulations to Justin for finishing all 1,084 streets in Longmont, Colorado! #everysinglestreet #citystrides

100% complete with my city and thanks!

Hi, I recently completed walking all 1,084 streets (586 miles) in my fair city of Longmont, Colorado. It was a lot of fun and I want to THANK CityStrides for your wonderful website. It made my...

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@CityStrides

9 years

Oh hey, look at that. We’ve run a million miles. http://t.co/vfSXgb9whz #run #running

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@CityStrides

5 years

Wow, there's a whole lotta earth for us to run: 167,280 cities 12,670,895 streets

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@CityStrides

5 years

Are you a CityStrides Supporter? Would you like to help alpha test a new feature that's in the works? 👇

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@CityStrides

8 years

I’m really lucky to have the site members that I do. It’s tough work, building this, but you all make it worthwhile. Thanks!

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@CityStrides

8 years

Yaaaay! I worked through the first wave of backlog jobs (probably around 16 million of ‘em)… Starting on the second (much smaller) wave now!

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@CityStrides

2 years

Free shipping 🎉today🎉 There's a little "redeem" button in the checkout page. Click it and see shipping costs disappear just like your 100% completeness disappears when new streets are added to your city.😝

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@CityStrides

6 years

I love when I get emails asking for features that I already have a card for. This time it was “teams”. The idea is that a group of people can work together to complete the city as a team.

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@CityStrides

5 years

⭐️ If you're a CityStrides subscriber who wants to filter your LifeMap by start/end dates, check your LifeMap beta page. ⭐️

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@CityStrides

9 years

Oh hey - noticing people are using #citystrides That’s cool!

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@CityStrides

5 years

😄already imported the world (for the countries I know the details for) 😳that was too fast 😨something must be wrong 😖the only way to know is to sift through hundreds of thousands of cities 🤔gotta be a better way than that

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@CityStrides

6 years

Super psyched about the (mostly navigation & mobile) redesign that just went up... Hope you enjoy it!

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@CityStrides

3 years

I need your opinion: I’ve got a grossly underused mailing list. I would like to be more active with that, but I don’t want to fill your inbox with stuff you don’t care about. What kind of content would you like to see in a newsletter style email?

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@CityStrides

5 years

Woah, barely squeaked by with 29,655 API call for the day! Disaster avoided!

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@CityStrides

3 years

Lots of new stuff out there for you today! Quick version: - lots of new stats on the homepage & profile pages - update to allowed streets from OSM - performance improvements

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@CityStrides

2 years

It’s so cool to see the Nodevember stats update live as people are completing streets around the world #everysinglestreet #CityStrides

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@CityStrides

5 years

Ugh. The site has exceeded Strava’s API limits, so _nothing_ related to Strava is functional right now. If you’re having trouble logging in or your activities aren’t showing up, this is why. All we can do is wait. 😧 😖

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@CityStrides

4 years

Updates for March 10 - Pin cities to the top of your running city list - Your completed cities are moved into a new tab - Search your running city list - Fixes some display issues with the Time Filter

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@CityStrides

4 years

Updates for March 9 The biggest feature change is a button on the map to toggle full-screen mode (works on mobile as well)

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@CityStrides

6 years

I'm working on a way to cache activity maps in the browser, which made me wonder how many activities people have... 😳 I was not prepared for this. 🤯 The leader has 10,099 activities, followed by many with 1k+

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5 years

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5 years

I saw this morning. There was a billing display bug & my costs aren't as high as I thought. It looks like $750 out of pocket this month. It's still a pile of money, but I don't want to be misleading/inaccurate. Thank you to everyone who is contributing!

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@CityStrides

4 years

It’s so cool to see shirts on their way to Germany! I hope whoever bought them takes some photos 🤩

CityStrides | Spreadshop

Merchandise & running gear

citystrides.myspreadshop.com

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@CityStrides

2 years

We're THREE days into Nodevember and over 16k of us have helped to complete over 100k streets so far #everysinglestreet #CityStrides

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@CityStrides

2 years

What would you name a game/competition where the winner is the person who has run a street the most?

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4 years

Whoops! A service that I use to help reduce bandwidth costs has gone down (and taken much of the internet with it) ... CityStrides will be back online after they are 😅

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