New route builder is broken

[danf879]

It seems Strava has switched the route builder to a new version.  I believe they have been testing this for awhile, as I've seen it here and there, but it seems over the last few days they've moved over to using it when you click the Create New Route button on the My Routes page.

There's some major problems when it comes to creating and editing waypoints, specifically around how it handles when you have an existing route but want to add a waypoint in the middle.  In the old system you could move your mouse along the line, and then click and drag the line to move it.  It'd intelligently add a waypoint in between existing ones.  But in the new system this rarely works properly.  I've seen some real strange things just playing with it, including invisible points in the middle of nowhere -- if you move the mouse along the elevation chart at the bottom, it'll float between these without actually following the line.   It's incredibly frustrating.  I hope the old route builder comes back, or a way to switch between the old and new system while they work out the bugs...

[nicky]

Hi everyone - thanks for sending in these examples. We did push an update to solve some of the issues with click & drag behavior. Are any of you still seeing issues?

[FrankR24 · Accepted solution]

Hey Dan,

I had the same issues, but since thursday the problem seems to be resolved!

[danf879]

It does seem to be working better today for me.. at least, I can't reproduce the problem I showed in the animation above... maybe they fixed something??  

[nicky]

Hey @danf879, Nick here from the Strava Web team. Thanks for taking the time to write in about the issues you're having with the new builder. Just to be sure I understand, are you having issues inserting waypoints (via click or click and drag) or are you expecting waypoints to appear on the route but they are not? 

In this screenshot, is this a route you'd previously created and are now loading again in the builder? if it's a public route, would you mind linking it here so we can take a look. Looking forward to getting to the bottom of this, and thanks again for writing in. 

[Zelva]

Just build a route and then try to change the route by dragging the route line to a different road. 

It's completely impossible now.

[danf879]

Hi Nick-
Thanks for responding.  I don't believe it's map specific -- I was able to recreate it on a new map, but unfortunately I couldn't tell you what triggers it.  It may be related to the velocity of the click + drag, or if you drag to an area that's unmappable?  I was able to capture an animation:

In better news, the Wandrer.earth plugin is working again!

[danf879]

Re: adding a new waypoint by clicking on the line and dragging -- it seems it works better now if you click on the line (not drag) and then select "insert waypoint" from this pop up menu.   THEN drag that new one that appears.

[randumbbear]

Also having several issues previously mentioned with this new route builder. Attempted using this fix and encountered a new bug, the route was split in half where the waypoint was moved and an invisible line remained as part of the route from the original points, see photo below as an example. Clearly the new route building features need some major changes before this new version is useful, Strava should revert back to the previous version until this is ready.

[danf879]

glad you mentioned Veloviewer... the Wandrer.earth extension is broken as well 😒