[tor-relays] Simplifying ExoneraTor

[Pascal Terjan]

On 20 July 2015 at 15:12, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> wrote:
>
> On 20/07/15 11:40, Pascal Terjan wrote:
>> On 2 July 2015 at 10:45, Joshua Lee Tucker <josh at tucker.wales>
>> wrote
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>>> Hi Karsten,
>>>
>>> I've made a patch to the page to add the HTML5 date components -
>>> it should work nicely across the majority of browsers (maybe even
>>> all with a plaintext fallback).
>>>
>>> I wasn't sure exactly in which format you wanted the patch, so
>>> I've uploaded it to my server:
>>>
>>> http://tucker.wales/tor/exonerator/index.html
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Josh
>>
>> Sorry for coming late in the discussion,
>
> No worries, and thanks for joining the discussion.
>
>> any reason to default to no value? Defaulting to current date would
>> all to just change the day in many cases and save a lot of clicks
>> to set month/date
>
> I'm not entirely sure that I understand.  Do you mean accepting only
> an IP address as input and not also requiring a date?

The field does currently not have a default value, so the HTML 5 date
selector in chrome shows me dd/mm/yyyy + some arrows to set each part
of the date which I didn't find convenient as the month/year are
likely to be current or previous one.
But I have now noticed that the bigger arrow on the right shows a
calendar displaying current month so it's only 2 clicks to get to a
recent date :)

> My understanding is that users are typically not interested in whether
> there's a relay with a given IP address right now but weeks or even
> months back in the past.
>
> A big downside of not requiring a date is that people may only put in
> an address, because that's much more convenient than also looking up
> the date, obtain a positive or negative result, and implicitly assume
> that the result for a few weeks back would have been the same.  That
> can be quite unfortunate for people on dynamic IP addresses or those
> who have recently stopped running a relay.
>