webrecorder / browsertrix

Browsertrix is the hosted, high-fidelity, browser-based crawling service from Webrecorder designed to make web archiving easier and more accessible for all!
https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix
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[Feature]: "Simplified" crawl workflow toggle #2166

Open Shrinks99 opened 5 days ago

Shrinks99 commented 5 days ago

Context

Browsertrix has lots of options! Not all of them must be edited to create a new crawl workflow and requiring new users to sift through the multiple pages of configuration paramaters isn't ideal when they can get crawling by just chaging one of them.

For those already familliar with Browsertrix, the configuration stage of crawling is pretty quick work! We want to ensure that this remains the case.

Proposed Solution

We will implement a toggle switch on the workflow setup screen to toggle between a simplified and full state. This toggle switch will be labeled "Show all options" or similar.

If "Show all options" is unchecked (the default state for new users) all tabs on the left side will be removed and only a single screen with the following options will be shown:

Implementation Notes

Shrinks99 commented 5 days ago

We may be taking a different path than this! Keeping this open for now... but might end up closing as wontfix.