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calendar view usability: the link to the actual snapshot is too hard to find
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Consider an origin list view with a single visit, e.g., https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/git/url/https://github.com/nokia/mesos-kafka/
It is really hard for a newcomer to find where to click to get to the snapshot content, because:

  • the timeline view occupies a huge part of the screen, and in there only the timestamp (which are quite tiny) will lead to the content
  • in the calendar view only one day out of 12 months worth of calendar is clickable
  • the list view is far down the bottom of the page

We need to make more intuitive where one has to click to get to the content

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rDWAPPScd1fab42ffcf browse: Change behavior for origin browse url

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zack triaged this task as High priority.May 4 2018, 9:33 AM
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zack added a comment.May 4 2018, 9:48 AM

So, how about just redirecting systematically to the browsing of the most recent snapshot available, and have from there a link (under actions?) that points to the visit calendar? Isn't that what most users would want anyway? I.e., aren't we optimizing for the wrong use case currently?

anlambert added a comment.May 4 2018, 11:49 AM

The link to the actual snapshot is the first displayed one ("Last full visit" in the first section, see https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/git/url/https://github.com/torvalds/linux/).
Nevertheless, it seems that you found a corner case when it is not displayed.

I agree that the visits reporting is not what a user wants to see when he reaches an archived origin.

So I propose the following:

  • /browse/origin/(origin_type)/url/(origin_url)/ will now redirect to the latest archived snapshot.
  • visits reporting will now be accessible through a new endpoint: /browse/origin/(origin_type)/url/(origin_url)/visits
anlambert closed this task as Resolved by committing rDWAPPScd1fab42ffcf: browse: Change behavior for origin browse url.May 4 2018, 3:39 PM
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