When auditing a custom route, show in sidebar

[jonfroehlich]

When you're auditing a custom route, I suggest showing that in the sidebar here:

Instead of:

Current Mission
Explore 1000 ft of this neighborhood

We have:

Custom Route
Finish the custom route (X.X mi)

Could have link to the custom route here so it would take you back to routebuilder or allow you to share it with others

[misaugstad]

I like this except for the part where we make the mission the full length of the route. We don't put a cap on the length of a route, so we should still probably split up long routes into smaller missions

[jonfroehlich]

Perhaps but IIRC, there is no way to reselect the route in the future, correct? So, if the user leaves the neighborhood (by starting a mission somewhere else) then no way to re-select this route...

[misaugstad]

Correct! I agree that we should add a way for users to be able to resume their routes if they go to a different neighborhood. But the suggestion looks like it would also turn the route into one really long mission. We just need to find a better way/location to show this info.

[jonfroehlich]

OK. How about just:

Current Mission: Route X
Explore 1000 ft of this route

Where Route X is hyperlinked and returns to the RouteBuilder so you can view it? <-- but if that's too complicated, just make the MVP the text above. Thoughts?

[misaugstad]

We don't have the ability to view routes again in RouteBuilder yet, but showing the route ID is easy enough!

[jonfroehlich]

Is it possible to also show the the full length of the custom route?

When I'm doing it, I really want to know how long the route is in total.

My preference, honestly, is to not break up a custom route into smaller missions but just keep it as one long mission. This would work better for the user study too. This was my original recommendation too (and I find myself agreeing with myself, ha!).

[misaugstad]

I agree that I want info on where you are within your route, possibly part of a larger sidebar redesign..? 👀 #2260

Though I disagree that turning the custom route into one large mission is a good idea. Missions are generally very short, so we lose out on a lot of the gratification/gamification that users are supposed to experience.

I do think that we could be smarter about how long we make the missions, or making the route one mission if the route is small enough, for example.

But the change that will make all of this clearer is just to give a better idea of where users are in their overall route at all times.

[jonfroehlich]

But the change that will make all of this clearer is just to give a better idea of where users are in their overall route at all times.
Totally agree.

Thanks for the discussion Mikey (both here and over Slack).