Climb Portal -> Make it permanent

Feature Requests
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I only discovered Climb Portal yesterday and directly climbed the Col du Tourmalet. I loved it!! Normally, I ONLY climb the Alpe du Zwift (it’s the only workout I do on Zwift because I like the segments). Please: Can you make all these climbs permanently available? So not only 2 per day. And can you add more 1.000 m+ elevation gain climbs?

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been requested many many times, what’s more annoying is that when the portal was launched there were 8 climbs available, zwift want more people visible on routes not fewer so that’s why there are only 2 climbs available

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I think it’s great that they increase the number of climbs, even though… most are not the 1.000+ elevation gain climbs I’m interested in. But your comment is interesting “Zwift wants”. Shouldn’t it be what the customers want…?

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it should be but what do customer wants?

I know some will want lots of choice some will want a climb with other people. There is probably a balance to be had with adding a few climbs of differing length always available.

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Fair point. I would say: more is better. If people want to climb together, Zwift offers options to organize that right?

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They’re trying to implement what the customer wants. The reasoning behind limited climb portals is the same as the reasoning behind having limited worlds available at a given time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Zwift/comments/16m1clf/comment/k188mpj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Alright, apparently I have different preferences…It’s the way it is…

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When they reduced the number of available portal climbs from 8 to 2, as Rich mentioned there were a lot of complaints about it, so your preferences are shared by others. I can’t say what the majority wants, but there are certainly some customers who do not care about seeing a lot of other riders. There are some other products (eg, FulGaz) that cater to that preference.

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try the climbs on 125% elevation scaling, note you have to complete it on 100% first to unlock it, but if you want more difficult climbs that is one way to get them

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I’ve noticed. Yesterday I directly finished the Col du Tourmalet and next time I will go for the 125% for sure. Maybe my preference isn’t even that all climbs should be available all of the time. I just wished Zwift offered more 1.000+ climbs with segments (like the Col du Tourmalet and Alpe du Zwift). For example, I find the Ven-Top (France, Mont Ventoux) rather boring. It feels like just 1 long climb. I really like it when it has segments. For me, the Alpe du Zwift are 21 small races due to the segments.

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Another long-standing request is to have segments on Ven-Top.
The closest you can get is the stone markers every kilometer, but with some of them backlit, you can’t read them, especially on AppleTV.

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@Dan_Kothlow, I think we totally agree. Compliments for Zwift for a great replica of this mountain. However, I would indeed prefer if they would confirm “the real experience” with all the options that software can offer… Best of both worlds!

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You can hardly read them on a 4K ultra setting with 55” TV either because the lighting on them is the wrong way around.

I would have preferred being able to ride any portal climb at the time I want to. But since that’s not possible I will use Fulgaz when it has the climbs I want.

So the limiting of route selection means I go to another app, rather than making do with Zwift. If they were all open to be ridden whenever I might have stayed in Zwift.

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I think generally Zwift does a terrible job with the UI - it is minimal functional and shows none of the polish that a product that will be a decade old later this year normally has.

I think that is the biggest disappointment as I’ve watched them evolve over the years.