Dashboard Usability
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Today I spent a few hours updating Nextcloud and some other applications that required manual intervention to the latest versions. At the same time, I was informed that a new Cloudron update had been released. So hours of clicking, with half my attention on progress.
A few minutes ago, I looked into an instance I didn't have time for today and saw

I thought: Shit. What kind of error is this? The app isn't running and isn't updating. It took me a few 10 seconds to remember that this instance uses a lot of “link apps”. That's why there is no “subline”.
Maybe we can introduce something like link, external (I know, the “subline” is more or less information about the app on this instance). Or maybe we can give the tile a different color or something?
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@jdaviescoates
He meant exactly what he posted
Also took me a second, so let me fill you in.Even the external link icon would do like so

@robi just cleverly used like.so as en example to get the forum icon on external links. That
.sois an actual TLD we can thank Somalia for that. -
Well figured @BrutalBirdie

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Aha, right. Got it, thanks! @BrutalBirdie! @robi was suggesting just perhaps adding a

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