Local Legends deleted when I merely wanted to leave the Local Legends display

Addendum: since deleting the records that the system creates to display the Local Legend information that are NOT the same as the records of a person’s activities, those activity records are all still there.  And each day, the activities from the prior 90 days are used to add new records to the Local Legends as activities from 91 days ago are removed.  There is even a “refresh” button on the Local Legends screen that can be used to force the screen to perform that update process even before Strava’s regular daily processing would get around do do it.

So that means that there is someplace in a person’s record where the start-date for Local Legends is stored and the system adds one day to that date during each day of processing.  What happened to me was that the web-app changed that date to the current date and then refreshed the Local Legends display and erased all the Local Legends records because they were from before the current moment.

If there is no place on the screen for the user to reset their Local Legends start date to any specified date in the prior 90 days, then the Strava administrators would only have to manually set my date back to current_date minus 89.  They could then manually trigger the refresh that would create all the records that only exist and get dynamically created and erased every day as a normal part of processing, or they could just let that normal daily processing take care of it.

So unless a user can tell me how to make the change I want to make to my Local Legends start date, I’m relying on there being sufficient technical talent at Strava to find my record and edit that date.  I’m not holding my breath (‘cuz that’s not healthy for runners).

This is all very unfortunate but in 90 days everything will be back to normal, because everything before these 90 days doesn’t count anymore for the LL regardless if someone participated or not.

Yes, for all of the places I run a lot, that will be true, and in fact, most of those LL will be mine well before 90 days because my numbers were cruising at 2x or more compared to 2nd place and often 3x or 4x of 3rd place.  So many of my slow days are over the same dozen segments so even though I only run 140 miles per month, I do a lot of repetition.

But it still seems like a trivial matter to offer the user the ability to adjust their LL start date within the 90 day range instead of insisting on today or 90 days ago.

Worse than that is deleting all of that information without any kind of confirmation dialog instead of the post hoc notice that you just lost it all.  This is unnerving because it means that the data we all rely upon for tracking our progress to properly manage our workouts, is not managed using sound principles.

Since my subscription has about 90 days to go, I will keep using Strava as I search for an app that takes data more seriously.

Where is this “Leave Logal Legends” to find so I can avoid using it?

Thanks, found it, and you’re right, this is difficult to confuse with a popup closer with the warning below.

I’m not sure that dialog was the first thing I saw when I was simply trying to get to some editing feature by using the ellipsis button as it is used in other Strava points of interaction.  I also don’t remember what the (presumably two) options were at that point.

In any software in which the UI is so cumbersome and counter-intuitive in various places, as one is fumbling around to find a given thing, they will tend to idly dismiss dialog boxes that seem like a series of speed-bumps.

I guess it’s too much to ask for the dialog to simply state “If you choose to leave, all of your existing Local Legend information will be immediately and irretrievably erased”.  Then, if there are two options and one of them is to leave and the other to not leave, it would be be pretty clear.  Instead, we’re supposed to deduce that.  The use of the word “leave” seems like an odd choice, given how it is more commonly reserved for simply leaving a page.

Outside of that common usage and the usage here on Strava, I cannot remember encountering a third use of the word “leave” as an option in a browser-based app.

As a developer of software end-user interfaces for decades, the dialog and the lack of a simple date-set option reflect strange priorities.  Strange, but I guess no longer unexpected given the traits of the rest of the UI.