I didn't realise you were such a keen runner. I run a fair bit, but I tend to find I need recovery days plus work and other things mean I cannot run every day. I do think that challenges can get people motivated though.
I think @strava2hive is doing a great job. It may be possible to use the methods he has used on other projects. I would like to see parkrun become a bigger thing on Hive. It is huge in the UK and some other countries with many thousands of people running every week. If Hive can get a small percentage of those then it will be significant.
Run free!
I'm trying to figure out the best way to get parkrun people to come on hive. I frequently goto bushy park and I agree there is a big opportunity even if a small portion (of a very big number of people) came to hive.
I think I need to do something to make news headlines and get people noticing the movement we have here. Of course tidying up the flow to make seamless integration would help.
I've not run at Bushy Park yet, but maybe I ought to as that's where it all started.
I like that strave2hive makes it easy to create a post, but people still need to create a Hive account and link it to Strava. I know @new.things has a Hive shirt he wears. Maybe we need some special ones with some catchy slogan and a QR code to get people to sign up and try it. The on-boarding process has to be simple. Getting news coverage would help.
Everybody knows about the hardest geezer. Another guy I met called johnnydavies ran the entire London tube. Both got BBC coverage.
My liketu shirt has a qr code. Liketu also has native onboarding now with referrals aswell that will soon earn permanent beneficiary rewards (at our cost) from all downstream users.
Parsing .gpx or .fit files should not be hard. People who use strava likely do so because it is hassle free and comes with a host of very useful stats. It will be a gargantuan task to replicate but we can atleast do the basics kinda like what afit have done but not have a website that looks like it was made in 1990.
I don't see us replacing Strava any time soon as it is so huge, but integrating with it brings benefits.
That reminds me that I need to finish logging my run on Strava from this morning so that it appears on Hive :)