MapSwipe users reporting that their stats seem like less time than they have swiped

[nicolelaine]

Describe the bug
At least three people have reported that their MapSwipe stats seem to be less than they expected.

User 1
Username: Eduardo
Link: https://community.mapswipe.org/user/HzX3zLudoJTWntZtffWZDzSe3YZ2/
User comments: Here’s the screen going into MapSwipe directly, so this is only my usage. This appears to be missing a bunch of data since I know I’ve used it for more than 5 minutes in January. But maybe there’s a reporting delay?

User 2
Username: Dingo
Link: https://community.mapswipe.org/user/tNYuRMdAGLSCgULQ5IoGYvUygSy1/
User comments: Has something changed with the time tracking over the past few months? An update? I'm sure I've spent more time than is being reported....

User 3
Username: DaniGal
Link: https://community.mapswipe.org/user/uQQj8WP81Se4vdd3B0Iy46iGi982/
User comments:
I recently had insomnia and decided to swipe. I made a conscious effort to review my “time spent swiping”. This particular 5am moment I was currently at 1 hr and 4 minutes (which is way under actual time spent). I swiped for 1.25 hours and I looked 4 days later for another conscious effort and I’m only logged as 1:39 hours in total. My daughters and I have been swiping often over the last 3 weeks and the minutes aren’t accurate.

Will update once we get the info from the 3rd user (they wrote into the MapSwipe inbox.)

[ofr1tz]

To add to this:

I saw that the Community Dashboard on MapSwipe production shows two days of mapping this month for one of my users, both with exactly 25s mapping time. I found that a bit suspicious.

In order to check, I mapped one task group on MapSwipe dev on 2025-03-13 against a stop watch. The mapping time was 68s. I checked in Firebase results and in Postgres mapping_sessions. Both had the correct start_time and end_time, resulting in a duration (end_time-start_time) of 68s.

I checked on the dev Community Dashboard today -- and saw that mapping time for the user on 2025-03-13 is shown as ... 25s

EDIT:
The issue I observed seems to be specific to projects of type Street and unrelated to the issue described above. I opened a separate #1017

[kopitek8]

Update

We checked the database to see if there were any anomalies in the community dashboard and found out that the stats showing in the community dashboard are accurate.

Investigation

User 1: Eduardo (HzX3zLudoJTWntZtffWZDzSe3YZ2)

Findings:
Eduardo's stats of January includes only one day i.e. Jan 9th, 2025. The total swipe time was 5 minutes.

usergroup_projects_202503201026_Eduardo.csv

User 2: Dingo (tNYuRMdAGLSCgULQ5IoGYvUygSy1)

Findings:
Dingo's stats of 2025 Jan to current date are up-to-date as per the community dashboard as well. We are attaching a a CSV here:

usergroup_projects_202503201020_dingo.csv

User 3: DaniGal (uQQj8WP81Se4vdd3B0Iy46iGi982)

Findings:
Dingo's stats of 2025 Jan to current date are up-to-date as per the community dashboard as well. We are attaching a a CSV here:

usergroup_projects_202503201024_DaniGal.csv

Next Steps

The next steps is to thoroughly test the MapSwipe app consciously swiping for more than 10 minutes