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Browsertrix is the hosted, high-fidelity, browser-based crawling service from Webrecorder designed to make web archiving easier and more accessible for all!
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"Crawler Instances" → "Browser Windows" #2048

Closed Shrinks99 closed 1 week ago

Shrinks99 commented 2 weeks ago

Context

Currently the "Crawler Instances" setting is a bit confusing. Users don't have a good sense of what a "Crawler Instance" is, or that each instance can contain multiple browsers. We try to communicate this with "scale" values, implying a multiplier, but this still isn't as clear as perhaps it could be.

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SuaYoo commented 2 weeks ago

@Shrinks99 How would you reword this?

Aggregated time across all crawler instances that the crawler was actively executing a crawl or QA analysis run, i.e. not in a waiting state

"Aggregated time across all crawler browsers"?

Shrinks99 commented 2 weeks ago

I think just "Aggregated time across all browser windows" now that there's a 1–1 mapping of browsers to controls? We're hopefully throwing out the idea of a "crawler instance" for users for good!