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		smallpipe 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When we get Komooted I see a lot of love for Komoot but for me that died when their "top 10 ride in <region>" had a bunch of auto-generated routes linking points of interests, that tried to take me through horrible paths or 4 lane roads.

bglazer 34 days ago | [–]

The author directly addresses this in the article. This was engagement farming driven by growth metrics.

insane_dreamer 33 days ago | [–]

Yeah; though I've always just ignored that and used it to create my own cycling routes and sync with my Wahoo bike computer. With this news I'll switch to Ride with GPS for that.

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