I have noticed that a segment I created a couple of months ago has disappeared despite it being one of the most popular segments on the island. I’m guessing it was removed as a ‘duplicate’ but I’d created it because of a recent change in road layout and the segment then made more sense. The segment that has been retained sends you down a one way street the wrong way. I guess the algorithm will catch up on this soon?

What happens to the ‘unpopular’ segments? Do they get deleted? This seems a shame!! For example  if you were the 1st to successfully ascend a mountain pass in the Himalayas on your bike etc? I know I am most proud of some segments that I am the only women to be on the leaderboard or only a handful of people have yet achieved.

This is totall bs and has stopped segment creation.  Creating and using segments is the only reason I use the service over others( ride with GPS, komoot)  If this continues, I will be moving.

@bpack88 - Based on the reply by Scout above, it appears that the issue with creating segments is a separate issue that is a glitch in their system they are working on fixing.  It is not an intentional change and not part of the new segment cleanup that was the subject of this thread.

These changes still have not fixed leaderboards I’m on not posting in my segment list or on my activity. Got 2 new PR’s tonight but my activity shows nothing was achieved. Support tickets open past a week still unanswered. Fix your current issues before breaking the platform more. 

Great news Strava! 

Mayb an option to dispute a segment?
When someone tries to dispute a segment an email could be sent to the creator to review their segment up against the new one someone has created. If the original creator is happy with it they could accept and then press a delete button?

My biggest concern is that this sounds like a one-way door, and your approach will be error-prone. Our urban area has a lot of popular shorter climb segments which, if deleted, couldn't be re-created because you instated a minimum distance requirement. If you do this, I'd highly recommend easing up on distance requirements.

I agree @Toshi . 

There should be a trashcan icon next to each segment that we can select if its no good. Perhaps the sum of this could be incorporated into the new cleanup algorithm.

Ok, this seems good at first sight, but I hope it doesn't have to do with the kom that I have gotten and they don't add me to my list (I have filed a ticket). For example, if there is a segment from A to B and another from A to C, are you going to delete one of them?

I'm not sure how you selected "Verified Segment" and if they were validated or not, but my local hill segment has a "Verified Segment" since this week, and for some reason, it doesn't work well on repeat climbs... Kind of a bummer since many people use this hill to do repeats.

Previously, we had a lot of segments for it and a few of them worked well for repeated climbs, now I'm stuck and I no longer know what is my time for each climb...

See my activity here: (only 2 registered verified segment, but actually did 4) https://www.strava.com/activities/12555906143

@MPeloquin That's a very good example, obviously the only remaining of the many uphill segments was one that starts too early. I don't know if it works because of the new segment restrictions but can you create a new one that matches better than the "verified" segment?

Another frustrating example of a local climb near to where I live…. All segments have been deleted apart from one that is about 20 meters longer than the segment that has been used for a Hill Climb event up the same hill for many years. 

The hill climb event had the fastest times up the hill by quite some margin but they no longer hold the top spots as most didn’t complete the final 20 meters (from a 3.5km climb).

Strava please please please reverse this change until you come up with a better solution.

Automatic segment deletion seems very bad.
I have been creating thousands of segments since 10 years ago.
10 years ago, GPS machines were not good.
So, there were many segments with inaccurate altitude.
But, the start and end are accurate, everyone can see them, and I made them safe.
For a long time, many people used the segments and bookmarked them.

But suddenly, many of them (about 160) disappeared.
It is very unfortunate.

If many people liked the segments, they should not have been deleted even if the altitude was inaccurate.

Hi. Two weeks ago i had 100 koms more than i have today. 
I regulary use veloviewer to scan my efforts (Strava doesn't notify you about lost koms in -0.3 or more segment .VV does) Nothing special there.  
Looks like that's the reason.