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    • nebulon
      nebulon Staff last edited by

      The bottom right of the dashboard has the version number. It is a bit faded so it doesn't stand out. Is that sufficient?

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      • marcusquinn
        marcusquinn last edited by

        I had the same question once until I noticed the footer text. Maybe worth also showing it on the Updates panel?

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        • BrutalBirdie
          BrutalBirdie App Dev @nebulon last edited by

          @nebulon said in Usability - Can't find current Cloudron version on my.domain.tld:

          The bottom right of the dashboard has the version number. It is a bit faded so it doesn't stand out. Is that sufficient?

          wow I really did not notice that, because my visual focus when using cloudron is the middle/central since that is where most the content is displayed, with the exception of the footer and navbar/navigation.

          That one is sufficient indeed, but I would like a link to the changelog on that version tag.

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          • nebulon
            nebulon Staff last edited by

            I was about to add a link to the changelog, but in fact the Cloudron itself does not have that information readily available currently unless there is an update pending.

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            • girish
              girish Staff last edited by

              @nebulon Maybe we can remove the version from the footer and move it into Updates section? This means that normal users cannot know the version anymore (but I cannot see why they want to know this anyway).

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              • ruihildt
                ruihildt @girish last edited by

                @girish Exactly. 🙂

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                • nebulon
                  nebulon Staff last edited by

                  Alright. Thanks for the input here. I have removed the version from the footer and we now show it in the update section of the dashboard.

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                  • Hillside502
                    Hillside502 last edited by

                    https://my.domain.tld/api/v1/cloudron/status
                    is the quickest way to a Cloudron's version number --- and public for all!

                    Mine is in a pinned Firefox tab.

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                    • jdaviescoates
                      jdaviescoates @nebulon last edited by

                      @nebulon said in Usability - Can't find current Cloudron version on my.domain.tld:

                      Alright. Thanks for the input here. I have removed the version from the footer and we now show it in the update section of the dashboard.

                      I liked it in the footer and want it back! 🙏

                      As does @robi, see https://forum.cloudron.io/post/15510

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                      • jdaviescoates
                        jdaviescoates @girish last edited by

                        @girish said in Usability - Can't find current Cloudron version on my.domain.tld:

                        This means that normal users cannot know the version anymore (but I cannot see why they want to know this anyway).

                        And I cannot see what harm them knowing it would do?

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                        • d19dotca
                          d19dotca @jdaviescoates last edited by d19dotca

                          @jdaviescoates I gotta be honest, I don’t know why it NEEDS to be in the footer. While I didn’t care it was there, I also don’t care that it’s been moved. Lol. I wonder if this is just one of those changes that isn’t liked at first but we come to see it as making sense / understand the design choice in the future. Most software keeps the versions hidden and viewable only by admins, so this to me makes logical sense as far as design goes.

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                          • jdaviescoates
                            jdaviescoates @d19dotca last edited by

                            @d19dotca I wouldn't say it NEEDS to be there either. I just liked it being there as a really quick and easy way to see what version I'm running. And I don't really get why it was removed without anyone asking for it to be removed (indeed, it was seemingly paradoxically removed because someone wanted to be able to easily see it, but hadn't even noticed it was there! 😛 )

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                            • ruihildt
                              ruihildt last edited by

                              4 people upvoted Girish post on it.

                              For me it doesn't need to be in the footer, I prefer to have only the custom footer down there.

                              Version is only interesting for admins, the less clutter the better. (At the same time, I could totally live with it down there. 😀 )

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                              • jdaviescoates
                                jdaviescoates @ruihildt last edited by

                                @ruihildt said in Usability - Can't find current Cloudron version on my.domain.tld:

                                4 people upvoted Girish post on it.

                                Heh, fair point.

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                                • jdaviescoates
                                  jdaviescoates @jdaviescoates last edited by jdaviescoates

                                  @jdaviescoates said in Usability - Can't find current Cloudron version on my.domain.tld:

                                  @ruihildt said in Usability - Can't find current Cloudron version on my.domain.tld:

                                  4 people upvoted Girish post on it.

                                  Heh, fair point.

                                  But, I still like my preferred solution here:
                                  https://forum.cloudron.io/post/15541

                                  Would keep everyone happy, no? 🙂 (and also has 4 upvotes 😉 )

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                                  • girish
                                    girish Staff last edited by

                                    We looked into many of the apps we have and most don't show the version in the footer. I guess the expectation is to find it somewhere else. So, we just moved it. We do keep getting repeated emails that they don't know what version the Cloudron is since they don't look into the footer (it's natural for me, but I guess it's not for others).

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                                    • jdaviescoates
                                      jdaviescoates @girish last edited by

                                      @girish just make having it in the footer an option under branding?

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                                      • girish
                                        girish Staff @jdaviescoates last edited by

                                        @jdaviescoates Currently, the footer is just a free flowing markdown. I guess we have to template it to have something like {{version}} or %version% or something. Have to see how easy/hard this is.

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                                        • girish
                                          girish Staff @jdaviescoates last edited by

                                          @jdaviescoates I noticed now that we have 2020 hardcoed as the default footer. So we probably want to have some templating since 2021 is almost here...

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                                          • jdaviescoates
                                            jdaviescoates @girish last edited by

                                            @girish I've got custom markdown in mine (which displays in the centre at the bottom). There is no 2020 to be seen. But I still miss having the version over in the right 🙂

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