New Dashboard Public Beta! 🎉

[nikoru]

Again, thanks so much to everybody for posting all these findings and suggestions! I would like to respond to a few of your comments. All others we will either address immediately, or we will defer them for a bit (I will let you know which ones) because in some cases we would like to introduce a larger change which needs more reflection and/or a discussion with y’all, so we consider them out of scope for the time being.

@mic

When I click on update for some book, I can no longer change the number of pages, which was comfortable for the many books that have no page number.

@pm215

The update dialog on the new page has lost the ability to edit the total number of pages in the book which the old version has.

We’ve decided to make the three dialogs more focused on doing one thing each (and doing it well, hopfeully): The “Basic Info” dialog is for editing general book information, the “Update” dialog is for capturing your media consumption, and the “Data Manager” is for fine-tuning and fiddling with your consumption sessions. Therefore, the “change total pages” option is now only available in the “Basic Info” dialog (where it was all the time). I hope you would want to change the total pages of the same book only once (or maybe twice) and as such it is hopefully acceptable to go to the “Basic Info” dialog to do this?

@mic

If I click on „use percent“ the entry „Percent complete“ keeps the page number (35 of 125 pages). Shouldn’t it change to the actual percentage (25.6 of 100).

I fully agree! For the time being I implemented the same behaviour as in the old dashboard. My plan is to completely overhaul the tracking, but this can only be done once the majority of the site is revamped. Therefore I need to ask for your patience for a bit longer.

@mic

Activity list: if I choose the filter settings „me“ and „videos“, „all activities“, I can also see book gradings.

Activity list: if I choose the filter settings „me“ and „books“, „gradings“, I can also see video gradings.

This behaviour is also present on the old dashboard, no? Thank you for bringing it to our attention, we will fix!

@bibliothecary

The dashboard is supposed to be showing the current and most recent items

Ah, maybe we have a different perception of what “recent” implies? For me, “this month” is really recent Also, previously one could already load more activities, or see more books that are in “in reading” state but have not been touched very recently, by scrolling. And now you can also go back in your watching and reading history. Does that feel so inconsistent for you?

@bibliothecary

when it just displayed yesterday/today/tomorrow

Oh, could you please explain one thing to me? Why would you want the “tomorrow” field in that widget anyway? When I redid the widget, I thought that was a bug but now that you’re explicitly mentioning it, it seems that you want this field?

@bibliothecary

It also takes a bit more work to find today in a monthly grid

I take this to mean that the highlight on “today” is not visible enough? We will think about how to improve the situation, thanks for the feedback!

@bibliothecary

What was the logic behind the change?

There was a little discussion in the “Frontend Development Roadmap” a while ago:

Dashboard: Unify "Days Read" and Calendar Month widget?

Maybe unify the “4 day” days read widget from the dashboard with the calendar month widget from the activity page (i.e. clicking “see all” expands it in place rather than navigates to another page?) See Frontend Development Roadmap - #12 by araigoshi

We thought it’s a great idea (and we both like it much better than the previous one tbh) so here it is…

@seanblue

Also, when you can’t find any Activity based on the set filters, this happens.

We tried hard but we could not reproduce this. Do you maybe still remember what you did to get to that state, and is it reproducible for you?

@soggyboy

Also, I wonder if the filter types for the activity type could be a checklist format? So we could click multiple types to include in the feed? I’d like to include reviews and status/page updates, but not gradings.

There is already a feature request around this, so we are definitely planning to have something like that going forward, but we would like to defer it for now.

@Pashmina

For Stats, I would maybe expect some actual Stats

@Kroki

I wish “Stats” tab would have “Quick Stats”

Great suggestions! I am sure we can make the dashboard much better still, but I’d like to have that discussion a bit later.

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Updates:

• It seems that the user profile information did not load for everybody who had their profile visibility set to “semi” or “private”. The effect was that parts of the dashboard did not load properly, including the Activity filters and stuff. Please reload and try again!
• Gradings: Mathew fixed a bug where the gradings were not properly counted. Please have a look again, the numbers on the old and new dashboards should now match. (Also, is the “grade more” button now displayed correctly, or is that still off?)
• Font size on Activity: This should now be more readable. @eefara does this fix your squinting issue, or are there still spots where you would like the font to be larger?