Today Zwift rolled out a server-side change to Clubs, giving Zwifters more freedom to join Clubs and grow the Clubs they manage:
- Clubs were previously limited to 100 members. That limit has been increased to 10,000.
- Zwifters were previously restricted to joining only 3 Clubs, including Clubs they owned. That limit is now 10.
See the forum announcement from Zwift >
This is great news, because as noted in our recent “10 Features Zwift Could Add Today To Make Us Smile” post, most Zwift teams (and many IRL teams/clubs) were well over 100 members before the release of Clubs tools, which meant Zwift’s Clubs implementation couldn’t actually support larger existing Clubs. Because a partial Club is no Club at all.
It also means we can finally start inviting people to the Zwift Insider Club. So without further ado…
Join Zwift Insider’s Club!
Now that the limit has been increased… we’ve got room for you! Join the Zwift Insider Club for easy access to our upcoming events and other fun Insider stuff like members-only giveaways and experimental events.
We’ve even got our first official Club event planned – the “Ask Eric Social Spin“. Join Zwift Insider’s Eric Schlange on a social spin on Watopia’s Waistband as he answers your Zwifty questions… and maybe asks a few questions of his own. Details here >
Small Bug
There’s currently a minor bug if someone clicks to join your club via the shareable zwift.com link instead of joining via the Companion app. That person still joins your Club, but the page says “An error occurred” so it’s not apparent that the signup worked unless they check on the Companion app.
Zwift knows about the issue (and will get it fixed soon, we hope).
Implications
We hope the pivot from “let’s keep Clubs small and membership exclusive” to allowing very large Clubs is a signal of a more “open” Zwift. Many Zwifters, including ourselves, simply want to see limits removed and horizons expanded on our favorite virtual cycling/running game.
CEO Eric Min has said repeatedly over the years that the Zwift community wants to create amazing content on the platform (content=events, basically) but Zwift needs to give them the tools. Let’s be honest: Clubs releasing with a 100-member limit was just silly. But give Clubs the space they need in order to do big things, and we think they’ll do just that.
Now as Clubs expand in membership, we predict Zwifters will begin clamoring for more Clubs event functionality. Club workouts, races that integrate with ZwiftPower, time trials, automatically repeating events – there’s a lot still to be done. But today we took an important step forward.
Your Thoughts
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races integrated with zwift power… that’s the dream 😁
Club jerseys should be easier to get in game!
I like that clubs are big enough to be useful now. What I am NOT looking forward to is the users who will join every club they come across whether they have anything to do with it or not. I get frustrated with the Strava model where my local running/cycling/triathlon club has a bunch of members who are atop the leaderboards each week who have nothing to do with our local organization, they just join to be part of something else and be “on the list”
Maybe the 10 Club limit will stifle that?
But of course, there are no Club leaderboards at this time. So it doesn’t really hurt anyone if people sign up for lots of Clubs, with the current setup.
A route editor for club owners . my two cents
I’ll take a late lunch a join the fun.
Joining the ZI club has really highlighted the need for per club notification support. I want to see chats in my personal club, but not the 100s “Thanks for the invite” messages in the big club(s).
Agreed!
Hi Eric, any idea when the ‘keep everyone together’ functionality will be added to clubs? It’s a key missing feature for mixed ability clubs like ours. I’ve had to keep using the meetup functionality when we should be using the club functionality!
Another great update. The ability to look at upcoming Events of a given Club (rather than scrolling through all events by date and time) in the companion app is highly useful.
Congrats Eric! ZwiftInsider is now the largest club in Zwift with more than 2k members and counting! Hope that Zwift adds more options soon. Clubs need to have at least the same possibilities as meet-ups (workouts/rubberbanding etc) and other existing things such as Zwiftpower integration, time trials/racing etc. And then zwiftly on to new shiny things, such as pace partners that can be set in club events. Maybe even something like club badges / club achievement unlocks, to encourage people to choose one or a limited number of clubs in stead of joining a lot of different clubs and not contributing in any club.