Usability Improvements for Atlas (was Re: Globe is now retired)
Hi All, On 29/06/16 09:56, Karsten Loesing wrote:
tl;dr: Globe is now retired in favor of an improved Atlas.
Atlas is improved, but I'd like to improve it further. I've been tackling #6787 looking to improve the homepage and make Atlas easier to use for someone that isn't already a Tor expert. The changes I'm proposing in my fix for #6787 [1] do make some noticeable UI changes and I just want to gather some opinions on whether or not Atlas users feel that this is taking it in the right direction. The "Top 10 Relays" page was added to Atlas in order to make sure that functionality was not lost when shutting down globe. (See #5430 [2]) In my proposed patch, I'm also adding an "Authorities" page and adding text to both of these pages to explain what you're seeing. These are linked from the homepage, and from the top navbar. I'm also moving the introduction and explanation of the Atlas features from the About page to the homepage and introducing a new Help page that explains the details that are found in the relay details pages. You can find a live example of this patch at: https://irl.github.io/atlas/#/ and a full list of changes are detailed in #6787. Please let me know if you can see any reason to not merge this, or if you have any suggestions for small changes before merging. Thanks, Iain. [1]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5430 [2]: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6787
On 30 Jun 2016, at 06:05, Iain R. Learmonth <irl@torproject.org> wrote:
Hi All,
On 29/06/16 09:56, Karsten Loesing wrote:
tl;dr: Globe is now retired in favor of an improved Atlas.
Atlas is improved, but I'd like to improve it further. I've been tackling #6787 looking to improve the homepage and make Atlas easier to use for someone that isn't already a Tor expert.
The changes I'm proposing in my fix for #6787 [1] do make some noticeable UI changes and I just want to gather some opinions on whether or not Atlas users feel that this is taking it in the right direction.
The "Top 10 Relays" page was added to Atlas in order to make sure that functionality was not lost when shutting down globe. (See #5430 [2])
In my proposed patch, I'm also adding an "Authorities" page and adding text to both of these pages to explain what you're seeing. These are linked from the homepage, and from the top navbar.
I'm also moving the introduction and explanation of the Atlas features from the About page to the homepage and introducing a new Help page that explains the details that are found in the relay details pages.
In 0.2.8, relays with enough bandwidth automatically become directory mirrors, serving directory documents over their ORPort(s). So we could change the Dir Addresses as follows: Dir Addresses IP addresses and TCP port numbers to which Tor clients can connect to retrieve directory information. These will only be shown if the relay is configured to serve this information using Dir Addresses, and this helps reduce the load on directory authorities. (All bridges, and some relays, also serve directory documents over their OR Addresses.)
You can find a live example of this patch at:
https://irl.github.io/atlas/#/
and a full list of changes are detailed in #6787.
Please let me know if you can see any reason to not merge this, or if you have any suggestions for small changes before merging.
Thanks, Iain.
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On 29.06.2016, at 22:05, Iain R. Learmonth <irl@torproject.org> wrote:
Hi All,
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You can find a live example of this patch at:
https://irl.github.io/atlas/#/
and a full list of changes are detailed in #6787.
Please let me know if you can see any reason to not merge this, or if you have any suggestions for small changes
Not necessarily small changes, but not too big either: - columns widths: "Bandwidth" could use a little more room to breath Nickname, IP and Flags are much too wide - if you insterted a spacer GIF for any flag not set, the whole Flags column would be much easier to read (e.g. it would be immediatly clear that the only distinction between the top 10 relays is if the 'exit' flag is set or not) - maybe changing the color of the flag GIFs to dark grey - the "Show [xxx] entries" could be on one line - I find country codes easier to read than flags and there seems to be a bug, also on atlas.torproject.org, that only 10 entries are shown, regardless of the number selected in the dropdown Thanks for your work! oma
before merging.
Thanks, Iain.
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Hi, Copying UX@ once for relevance.
Iain R. Learmonth: small changes
+ The 'Home' button is redundant since the logo provides the return function. + When collapsing the window to mobile-size, the navigation doesn't stack well; 'Home' gets stuck floating right of the logo. + The buttons in the middle of the page are redundant and add confusion. It is preferred to have one path to things; the navigation does this. They could be removed. + I am unsure of the value of linking to the torproject.org in the center of the page, maybe elsewhere as a hyperlink. + In 'Authorities', a list of all the flags could be valuable. The icons have tooltips, but that is unneeded work. + Returning from 'Authorities', 'Flag:Authority', or whatever, remains in the search field. + With the title text, maybe say "in the box above" instead of "in the above box", to put the subject before the location. + Columns need some love. Wonderful! Wordlife, Spencer
Hi, I've also recently improved Atlas but it changes major part of the user experience. So this is a kind of Request For Comments. Most of the changes are my vision of how-it-should-all-look-like. The most notable changes are: * There is no super-wide list of relays that doesn't fit even into Tor Browser window (panels instead with upstatus indication) * Responsive design for narrow screens * Updated navigation bar with new version of Bootstrap * Vector icons for flags and other * Stretching of the graphs You can review all the changes at [1] and deployed version at [2]. Please let me know if you have any ideas/suggestions. P.S. Some of functions like list sorting, display range, detailed search and maybe more are broken/gone now. I'm wondering if these functions are useful? [1] http://hartwellnogoegst.onion/atlas/log/?h=new-design [2] http://hartwellnogoegst.onion/deploy/atlas-new-design/ -- Ivan Markin
Ivan Markin:
Hi,
I've also recently improved Atlas but it changes major part of the user experience. So this is a kind of Request For Comments.
Most of the changes are my vision of how-it-should-all-look-like. The most notable changes are: * There is no super-wide list of relays that doesn't fit even into Tor Browser window (panels instead with upstatus indication) * Responsive design for narrow screens * Updated navigation bar with new version of Bootstrap * Vector icons for flags and other * Stretching of the graphs
You can review all the changes at [1] and deployed version at [2].
Please let me know if you have any ideas/suggestions.
P.S. Some of functions like list sorting, display range, detailed search and maybe more are broken/gone now. I'm wondering if these functions are useful?
Sorry, my onion service is down for a while. For the sake of simplicity I've deployed Atlas on GitHub [1]. The code is on the repo there [2]. [1] https://nogoegst.github.io/atlas [2] https://github.com/nogoegst/atlas -- Ivan Markin
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