I woke up at 2am on March 26th with a Zwifty idea: what if I could easily filter the list of upcoming events based on how many people are signed up?
(Let’s not talk about me having too much Zwift on the brain. It’s been crazy in Zwiftlandia for the last few weeks!)
Big events are something cyclists rarely get to enjoy outdoors, but they happen regularly on Zwift. The problem is: there’s no easy way to find them! Sometimes Zwift announces the big events – other times (especially in the last few crazy weeks) no announcement is made, yet people still sign up in droves because they found it through some other channel.
When I got into the office that morning I sent a quick message to Jesper over at ZwiftHacks. He liked my idea.
The next day, it was live. That’s agility, folks. Three cheers for Jesper!
How It Works
Visit the ZwiftHacks events page and you’ll immediately see the colored tags next to any event with 100+ signups:
To filter events by size, click “More filters and search” then select an option next to “Size”. Jesper set it up so you can filter for events with 100+, 200+, 300+, or 500+ signups.
What do you think?
Is this a useful tool for you? And how great is Jesper’s ZwiftHacks events tool? Share your thoughts below!
Love it! How about filtering for rides with guest leaders?
Keep up the good work!
These rides are typically tagged ‘ridewithpro’. You can either just type that into the search field ‘Search in full text…’ OR you can find the tag #ridewithpro in the list of tags and filter with that
Can you find rides with the least people signed up? It’s getting a bit busy for my liking!
Hi Eric, since you mentioned it, I’ve been looking for an event I could join that allows me to experience Double Draft. is there a way to find events that include DD?
That’s easy – click More filters and search… then click #doubledraft in the Tags section at the bottom of the filters.
Brilliant!!!
Being able to sort by attendees, length, elevation, etc would make more sense.
Go check it out there are many filter options you can set.
Is there any way to know the high participation events for Zwift cyclists at least one month in advance or longer? Thanks a lot!
Not really–Zwift doesn’t schedule stuff that far out, typically. They’re just trying to get the next week or two done!
Could we also get bookmarkable search result pages? (Meaning, changing URLs after selecting a (set of) filters?) So that I don’t have to drill down into more and more filters each time I’m looking for events I’m interested in, just add them as few bookmarks instead and be done with it? Would be really great!
ZwiftHacks already has this. It’s at the bottom of the list of search results.
Oh, cool, thank you Eric! Haven’t scrolled that far down. Good to know it’s already supported – even if not completely what I imagined (does not allow you to manually edit the query string to for example search for tags that do not exist at the moment) – still though it’s great to have it.
You can use the generated key to open the page, edit your filters, and just create a new key for your changed search by clicking ‘Share this selection’
Thank Jesper! Please forgive my thickness, but I still don’t see how this would work. Say, I have created a link for #doubledraft tagged events – https://zwifthacks.com/app/events/?key=5e8ba99a1490f But, what I really want is to bookmark search results for #doublexp tagged events (note there are no events like that right now). Not sure how would I edit my #doubledraft search page to change it to #doublexp?
What you can do is:
There is no way for you to edit the filters set by your old link, unfortunately.
For me it’s been a matter of making the solution as simple and robust as possible so I won’t have to spent too much time fixing bugs 🙂
Love this, especially handy when you just want to jump on and spin with some like-minded folk.
aye. this is a big win. thanks guys.
Wow – thanks! very useful….