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Signup page: crufty URL parsing, info bubbles pointing to off screen stuff, inexplicable fields and instructions #418

Open treasuretron opened 4 years ago

treasuretron commented 4 years ago

A lot of this is true of two pages: when editing account settings, and when completing signup after getting an email link - both contain account/profile settings.

on edit account settings page, when clicking the save button at the bottom, a bubble is shown at the search bar at the top asking me to, "Please enter a URL."

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treasuretron commented 4 years ago

ok strangely this was only happening because under the Website field I didn't have http:// in my url but did have www. Once I added http:// it allowed me to save the details and also all the spurious fields as mentioned in https://github.com/spacebase/spacebasenz/issues/417 disappeared.

spacerich commented 4 years ago

Ah, yes. This is a really annoying thing that I have brought up before. You have to know, magically, that URLs must be fully qualified with protocol declaration at the start. This is not normal in any modern web experience.

spacerich commented 4 years ago

Oh, there is another bug here that is more important than that UX issue, and that is that the bubble points to an invisible field - I'll try to duplicate - this is a second UX category that is really confusing to people.

spacerich commented 4 years ago

And configure "meta-tags"? oof. This is going to have to lump into another issue on the whole signup form topic.