Re: pgarchives new design review

Hi

On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 10:26, Sahil Harpal <sahilharpal1234(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I have been working on the pgarchives project. I have made some changes in
> the UI and would love to have community review/feedback on it.
>
> So far I covered following pages
>
> - Home page - http://140.211.168.145:88/list/
> - Month & year list page -
> http://140.211.168.145:88/list/pgsql-hackers/
> - Day list - http://140.211.168.145:88/list/pgsql-hackers/2022-07/
>
> I have a few comments, based on a quick look:

- The site is unusable if Javascript is disabled in the browser. PostgreSQL
websites have a general requirement that JS should be optional, not a
requirement.

- There is different styling on different buttons. For example, the
numbered buttons for by-day paging look quite different from the
previous/next buttons, which have a thicker border and what appears to be a
different background colour.

- The thread paging buttons have different styling again (and are using a
shade of blue which is outside of our normal palette I believe).

- The blue used for the on-hover row highlighting also seems unnatural.
Perhaps a light grey would work better here?

- Perhaps the Previous/Next buttons should be at either end of the
"per-day" buttons, rather than on a separate row?

- The lists of messages are (intentionally) a lot more compact in the
current design. The new design looks nice, but would require a *lot* more
scrolling as each row is now at least two lines of text. I wonder if
there's a way to keep at least some of the compact-ness, whilst still
making it look nicer.

Thanks!

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