Spread the URL of our auctions UI to other Maker UIs

florianstoecker commented 2 years ago

Goal The URL of our auctions UI is included in other Maker UIs

Context In order to spread awareness of our UI, we want other Maker UIs to point at our domain.

Tasks

[ ] Step 1: List all possible places (e.g. Makerburn, Maker Footer) --> Can be found on the unified page: https://auctions.makerdao.network/
[ ] Step 2: Create a basic mock proposal for each project (by editing HTML in the console, for example, and adding a link). Would be nice to propose a common style for that (e.g. in a footer)
- [ ] Step 2.1: Add a sentence that links to our domain "All available tools related to maker auctions"
[ ] Step 3: Check if there are public repos to the UIs
[ ] If there is a public repo:
- [ ] Step 4: Find out the maintainer & contact maintainer
- [ ] Step 5: Draft the text for a PR to include our domain on others UIs
- [ ] Step 6: Open PRs in all the repos
- [ ] Step 7: Make sure they get recognized & merged
[ ] If there isn't a public repo:
- [ ] Step 3: Contact maintainer of UI if possible

valiafetisov commented 2 years ago

List all possible places

I guess we already did this step on the unified page: https://auctions.makerdao.network

I would suggest to:

[ ] Come up with a text of the link. Something like All available tools related to maker auctions? Or Participate in the auctions
[ ] Create a basic mock proposal for each project (by editing html in the console, for example and adding a link). Would be nice to propose a common style for that (eg in a footer)
[ ] Depending on the project:
- [ ] Open PR with the changes for all projects which have source code
- [ ] Make sure it get recognized & merged
- [ ] Write to the maintainer if there is no source code

fegbert commented 2 years ago

My proposals (so far) would be:

Dai Auctions

Footer structure is perfect for just adding another link to it
Length of the sentence fits nicely

Information

Maintainer: Martinlsanchez - https://twitter.com/0xMarto Repo: https://github.com/martinlsanchez/daiauctions

Dai Stats

Footer is very similar to daiauctions, so same points apply here.

Information

Maintainer: nanexcool - https://twitter.com/nanexcool Repo: https://github.com/nanexcool/daistats

Surplus / Debt auctions portal

Footer is smaller and horizontal with relatively large text, so adding the long sentence here in my opinion would look bad. That's why I went with the shorter option of Participate in Auctions. This of course is just an idea, but I think a sentence of this length would be better.

Information

Maintainer: MakerDAO - https://twitter.com/MakerDAO Repo: https://github.com/makerdao/auctions-ui

Liquidations Portal

Haven't added anything yet since they already have this massive banner at the top linking to us. Should we still add another link in the footer? 🙂

Information

Maintainer: MakerDAO - https://twitter.com/MakerDAO Repo: https://github.com/makerdao/liquidations-portal

Block Analitica

This one is a bit tricky since the page doesn't have anything other than the copyright notice in its footer. The only other place I could think of though would be the navigation menu, but I don't think it really belongs there. For now, I added it to the footer to keep a common style across pages.

Information

Maintainer: Block Analitica, d.o.o - https://de.linkedin.com/company/block-analitica Repo: unavailable

Makerburn

Same thing as with Block Analitica. The only thing in the footer so far is a link to the creators' forum page.

Information

Maintainer: makerburn - https://forum.makerdao.com/u/makerburn Repo: unavailable

valiafetisov commented 2 years ago

Adding links to the footer in basically all UIs is fine with me. Maybe after those PRs are merged and we have new domain + fetching of finished auctions work, the ideal would be to add exact link to the auction as a call to auction button on the page, e.g.: Participate in this auction link.

Surplus / Debt auctions portal

I would still keep the same text, cause the text reads as misleading, since this UI actually already provides ability to participate in auctions.

All available tools related to maker auctions

Let's make it All available tools related to MakerDAO auctions or Unified MakerDAO auctions. I think this text is also a matter of SEO. @LukSteib, what's your take?

LukSteib commented 2 years ago

Let's make it All available tools related to MakerDAO auctions or Unified MakerDAO auctions. I think this text is also a matter of SEO. @LukSteib, what's your take?

My personal preference would be to go with the shorter one and change it to Unified Maker auctions. Rationale behind Maker instead of MakerDAO: The auctions are related to the protocol structure and not to the DAO that is governing the protocol.

Generally agree with the footer based proposals. Some takes on particular tools / services:

Liquidations Portal

The old liq portal is using some sort of standard Maker related footer. I am trying to find out who's maintaining this footer in order to include our link there as well. This footer is also used by e.g. https://makerdao.com/en/

Block Analitica

Since there is no real footer I would suggest to somehow get a link on the auction related subpage https://maker.blockanalitica.com/auctions/ @fegbert can you make a proposal? As this one is maintained by the Risk core unit we can directly approach them with a proposal.

Makerburn

Here I would suggest a slightly different approach: Instead of linking to our root page we can ask the maintainer(s) to replace the existing link to the outdated liq portal by our .../collateral page as it directly tackles collateral auctions. See existing link on makerburn:

fegbert commented 2 years ago

My personal preference would be to go with the shorter one and change it to Unified Maker auctions.

I agree on this. I think it the short option would look better in most cases 🙂

Liquidations Portal The old liq portal is using some sort of standard Maker related footer.

Any updates on this? From the code it looks like they have some "shared" components, but the file is actually just copy-pasted from somewhere then instead of it being added by a library, so I'm not sure how they're maintaining it.

Block Analitica

Good suggestion! Since they have everything inside cards I would suggest to add another one for participation with the sentence Visit the Unified Auctions UI to participate in active auctions that contains a link to our page.

Makerburn

I totally missed that link. That's definitely the best approach in my opinion!

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