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CoCalc: Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud
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creating new project as non-admin shows confusing "Loading" status #6081

Open DrXyzzy opened 2 years ago

DrXyzzy commented 2 years ago

Seen with latest Chrome and Firefox on macOS 12.5.

  1. Sign into CoCalc as non-admin.
  2. Click "Projects" at upper left.
  3. Click "Create New Project...".
  4. Enter a project title, for example "2022-08-13 sample".
  5. Click "Create Project".
  6. CoCalc attempts to automatically open the project. The following are displayed:
    • "Start project" button
    • "Loading" spinner
    • "Loading file list..." status and spinner at right

Someone who is new to CoCalc may be confused by the spinners and wait for them to finish before clicking "Start project". (This has been reported.) But nothing will happen until "Start project" is clicked.

Suggestion: I think either the spinners should not be displayed until "Start project" is clicked, or else the new project should be automatically started.

williamstein commented 2 years ago

or else the new project should be automatically started.

Newly created projects automatically is definitely what should happened. It is also what definitely did happen originally, and I don't know how that broke.