I will officially apologise here if anyone comes across dodgy edits by me made in the last few days. I've been trying to edit but found that the edits didn't stick. In the end, I re-edited segments & tried each of the major editing items, such as changing road types, names, intersections, adding, deleting, moving, etc. I cleared my caches, changed browser, restarted the computer, etc. I didn't realise the underlying map was being damaged as none of the edits seemed to be sticking with the server. Since early today, I have found some extra non-sensical roads that I added have appeared, and of course couldn't delete them. Since finding that Waze forum thread quoted above, now I know why. The problem is going to be finding out where my dodgy edits were, now that they've gone live...

Ah, nice, thanks.

Seems to be all working again now.

Since some time on Thursday there has been a global problem affecting the ROW server. Changes made in WME seem to be working but, once you refresh the browser tab, the changes have apparently disappeared. This makes many further edits impossible. The changes seem to appear after the next map update (see status.waze.com).

I notified Waze HQ about this approximately 8 hours ago in the Global Champs direct-access forum. They were apparently emailed about it back on Thursday evening - and again about 4 hours ago. I hope they will do something about his.

We have an update from Waze HQ - after 2 private emails, one post in Direct Access forum and an email to the SOS channel.

MapSir wrote:Hi Everyone,

Thank you for the examples.
We managed to reproduce the errors and we are working on the fix.

It has nothing to do with beta or prod versions of wme, it's an infrastructure issue on our servers.

There seems to be a problem with solving PUR's also, I'm looking into it too.

Thank you all for the help!

The main problem (edits disappearing from WME) should now be resolved. Please see Editor Problems September 15th-18th 2016 for more details & further updates.

Yep and NA as well. Having said that, I believe the edits are working because I tried to edit something in beta that didn't update in production and I got an error that the segment I'm trying to edit has been changed.

I'm getting intermittent results - some changes are saving, some aren't. I think I even saw a case where I made a change, it was still there after the first refresh, but disappeared from the second.

I'm wondering if there's multiple servers sitting behind the scenes with delays in synchronising changes between them, and refresh results in getting results from a different server? (Similar to Facebook, where there are lots of servers that exchange information so they eventually synchronise, but in the short term you can have updates disappearing and reappearing.)

Edit: appears to be wide-ranging problem on ROW server - see viewtopic.php?f=8&t=205802

B_Carp wrote:The problem is going to be finding out where my dodgy edits were, now that they've gone live...

https://www.waze.com/user/editor/B_Carp might help you here.