[tor-dev] Feedback on recent Globe improvements

[Karsten Loesing]

On 30/03/14 22:54, Christian wrote:
> On 30.03.2014 12:44, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> moving our private discussion to the public mailing list.
>>
>>
>> You were asking about making graphs from Onionoo's new clients
>> documents.  Here's an example:
>>
>> "1_week":{"first":"2014-03-23 12:00:00","last":"2014-03-30
>> 12:00:00","interval":86400,"factor":0.002802803,"count":8,"values":[251,933,471,955,999,999,735,713],"countries":{"cn":0.1882,"dz":0.0728,"es":0.0146,"fr":0.1006,"gb":0.0174,"hk":0.0233,"ir":0.1119,"jp":0.1882,"kz":0.0117,"my":0.1532,"us":0.1123},"versions":{"v4":1.0000}},
>>
>> For this bridge, you'd draw the first data point at x = 2014-03-23
>> 12:00:00 UTC with y = 251 * 0.002802803 = 0,703503553 concurrent users.
>>
> 
> Thanks,
> I added client graphs to canary/index-11349.html .

Awesome!

>> You were also asking about feedback on new uptime graphs:
>>
>> http://rndm.de/globe/canary/index-11349.html
>>
>> Looks pretty good!  The uptime graphs for the relays I checked were not
>> as exciting as the bandwidth graphs, but it's actually good if uptime is
>> always at 100%.
>>
>>
>> And finally, you asked about showing numeric averages next to graphs,
>> like on:
>>
>> https://status.github.com/graphs/past_week
>>
>> I like the idea.  I think we shouldn't split up graphs to have only 1
>> line per graph, because that makes it hard to compare incoming and
>> outgoing traffic or the various weights to each other.  But it could
>> help to have numeric averages in the same color as graph lines next to
>> the graphs.
>>
> 
> Do you think, that we should place all graphs above eachother?
> With more than two graphs it's harder to compare them if they're
> positioned in a grid like fashion.

Putting them above each other might make sense, yes.  Also reducing
graph height might work, so that all graphs fit on a small display.

Here's another thing I like in GitHub's graphs: the "Past Day/Past
Week/Past Month" selector that affects all graphs at once.  Do you think
something like that would work for Globe (or Globe-node)?

So, basically, we'd have similar graphs as GitHub, but with more than 1
line per graph, because we want to compare those lines directly to each
other.

Thanks!

All the best,
Karsten