Hard mode per city

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I have a proposal:
Switch/unswitch to hard mode per city.

I have done 12 cities to 100%. 2 have a few official streets that i can’t change in OSM, but won’t never run to secure my life. So i won’t gt thoseto 100% in hardcore.
I would like to have all those other cities in hardcore mode, because i think i am fairly 100% even then.

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Updates on March 14, 2026 (Release 1432)
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Why can’t you change them in OSM? If they are not possible to run, shouldn’t they be Foot=no?

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It’s official a public road, the postman would deliver post there. But a runner like i am, would not go safely in that street because of the people that live there and the dogs they have. I am in for 100% running, but i won’t take all risk to achieve that. So no editing in OSM since officially it’s public.

But for what ever reason one should have to not run everything, i would like to switch to hardcore per city

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OK, I see…

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I totally get what you are saying. I had to mark a few oads complete for some weird reasons. Like 1 that had a median and 1 side has a sidewalk and otherside doesnt with no shoulder and 55 mph traffic not going to risk my life if u really did run it. I have 21 cities done and i couldn’t do hardmode for a reason just like this.

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Bumping this idea because I have a different motivation:

  • I want to have hard mode on for all the cities where 100% is theoretically in reach (a smallish number!), so that 100% represents true coverage.
  • But for all other cities, where I’m visiting, randomly there, or whatever… I want to get as many streets as possible!
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Bump. Any chance this proposal will happen?

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This would be cool and letting one do hard mode on home turf and normal mode when travelling

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Can you borrow a postman’s uniform and go really slowly?

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I actually do foot=private.

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I’d love to have this feature… I have 2 cities where I’ve hit every node, and would love to show off that I’ve finished in hard mode.

But I also have a couple other cities where I have completed in regular mode, but one of them is a really large city and I really don’t want to go back and redo the nodes on 80 or so streets where I’ve missed a node or two.

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I’ve just released the ability to set Hard Mode per city. Here’s how per-city Hard Mode and account-wide Hard Mode interact with each other:

  • If you enable Hard Mode on your account (in the Settings page), this enables Hard Mode on all of your cities. You cannot turn off Hard Mode for individual cities when it is enabled on your account.
  • If you disable Hard Mode on your account, this disables Hard Mode on all of your cities.
  • While Hard Mode is disabled on your account, you can enable/disable Hard Mode on any of your cities as you wish.

The enable/disable capability is in the city list on your profile page. I considered adding it to the menu on the city page, but then that would require you visit each city to enable/disable Hard Mode. By using the city list, you can quickly enable/disable many cities very quickly.

Challenges can also have Hard Mode enabled, and that is completely separate from Account/City Hard Mode.

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Oh wow! Such a great news! I am sooo waiting for this one. My whole journey in my surrounding completed cities starts anew.

1000 thanks, James!:raised_hand:

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Hi James, it might be a user error but I’m having trouble finding where I can enable hard mode at a city level - I would have thought when I am looking at a city in the same place as the sync button but can’t see anything?

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It’s in your active cities list, so you need at least one street in a city to activate it.

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Excellent thanks!

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@JamesChevalier: one nice to have on this amazing new feature, could the sorting of the finished cities be changed, so first the hard mode cities are ordered by alphabet, and after that the other finished cities?

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Very cool. I’ve been reluctant to do hard mode. This might change my mind.

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So should I see that the city was done on hard mode, on the city page?

Presently I only see it on my list of completed cities?

Thank you

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Oops, that’s currently only looking to the account setting. I’ll update that for this new feature.

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