openaustralia / morph

Take the hassle out of web scraping
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Remove 'timer' icon from scraper lists #725

Open equivalentideas opened 9 years ago

equivalentideas commented 9 years ago

It's not obvious to me how the timer icon helps citizens assess/find scrapers when they're searching or browsing lists. Why is it important that a scraper is on a timer?

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If it's not helpful, we should remove it, because it's telling people there's some meaningful difference between the scrapers they're looking at—but it might not actually be meaningful to them.

The number of watchers, downloaders or existence of data might be more helpful.

mlandauer commented 9 years ago

When you're looking at your own list of scrapers it's useful to see which run automatically. Otherwise, I agree, it's not particularly useful.

I would say we should aim to get rid of the timer icon in normal lists. Before we do that, however, we should figure out how to show the information on your own list of scrapers.

equivalentideas commented 9 years ago

Nice ideas @mlandauer

I quite like that last option as starting with a simple approach of keeping one list. I notice that github sort repo lists by update time https://github.com/openaustralia/

I like the separate lists idea too. But I fells the sort order is simpler somehow for the users.