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I was using a misconfigured screen at university, the other day, but I hadn't really noticed it until I loaded the beta linode manager. Because of the choice of colours, the tabs became completely invisible against the background, just because the balance of one of the colours was ever so slightly off.

oops, thanks, I'm sorry for the OT.

Seems like it's changed quite a bit since I last looked at it, but I think I still prefer the old version. Not to keen on the layout of this new manager. Where's the Host Summary/Storage Summary, plus I feel it needs a smaller font and one of the things that I most dislike is grey text on a white background. The whole UI feels a bit wordpressy. Sorry guys for the hard work you put into it, but if it's not broke don't fix it.

By and large I can't say I'm overly impressed with the new look but I guess I don't hate it either. Which may be the best sort of response expected when changing the look of something everyone has become so accustomed to.

I do think that a control-panel situation is permitted (and to me, even desired) to be "dense", whereas I think the redesign is going a bit the other way. Even on a large screen stuff I used to see right away now requires scrolling. And information previously right on the main dashboard screen now requires clicking to secondary screens. I wish a redesign had chosen a more dynamic layout that could use all available width, but grant that doing so cleanly can be tricky.

I do definitely appreciate that it appears you can finally have pages open against more than one Linode simultaneously. And little touches like being able to group Linodes beneath a group name is nice. The display group setting seems to bleed into the old panel display, though I can't see any way to actually change it there.

Interestingly I do find myself missing the current month CPU average usage from the old dashboard more than is probably reasonable. There appears to be no direct replacement; the dashboard graph is one day, and the detailed graphs (an extra click away) are missing a "current month" option - just has "last 30 days". I suppose an argument could be made that current month is less useful early in the month, but personally I'd leave both choices in there, and put some information on a longer period back up in the main dashboard display.

It also appears that we've lost the ability to observe more job information than just the last 3 or so. Some actions (migrations) enqueue many more jobs than that, and I know I always used to expand the job listing in those cases - sometimes after completion to gauge performance of the migration.

-- David

I am big fan of Linode. But sorry, I do not want this. By all means, add features or make changes to the existing interface. But changing the whole thing doesn't make sense. Maybe I'm missing the point though. Linode, what problem are you trying to solve?

The one where people get confused about which IP is theirs and open tickets when they can't ssh to root@newark666, the one where people need to read a library article to start up the rescue image, the one where you can't look at more than one linode at a time, the one where there's a lot of pre-Xen vestigial stuff (host load, anyone?)...

There's more than a few problems with the current dashboard, that's for sure.

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The one where people don't understand how bandwidth is pooled (solved by only showing bandwidth usage on the page with the list of Linodes).

The one where people try to boot multiple config profiles at the same time. Where the interface wasn't consistent across the manager. Where the code was ancient, bolted onto year after year, and was difficult to maintain - making it hard for us to push out new features that we have planned...

See, why you gotta go and do that. where's the drooling smiley?

I just noticed that the new manager seems to have lost the ability to view older support tickets, not just recent ones. Is that an oversight or a feature actually being removed?

-- David

Find ten differences haha :
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"Show All Tickets" link, located under the "Recently Closed Tickets" table

Or add ?Last30DaysOnly=false to the URL

Yeah, that's what I meant I'm missing - I don't have a "Show All Tickets" link on the default support screen for the new manager. I do in the old manager.

Adding the suffix query parameter does show them in either, and ironically the "Show All" link then shows up in the new manager (when it's no longer needed).

Probably just a small buglet somewhere in choosing when to display the link.

-- David

whoa, so just as i thought everything was looking good the gradient banner returned... ouch...