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Hey, thanks for trying out NetAlertX.
I'm using FF as my primary browser so not sure about why your experience is so different.
I think I've done alright, writing an app that is configurable via json manifests, dynamically loaded settings and a plugin system everyone can contribute to.
There are of course things to improve, and almost everything listed in your post is something on my long to-do list. It's very easy to find flaws in things, but what's more difficult is to contribute to the community and improve things.
So if you are up for a challenge - open a PR and help me improve things step by step.
Thanks in advance if you decide to help out! Otherwise, comments like these make free open-source work unenticing🙏
EDIT: Fixed the empty settings (hopefully), added a remove last button on the subnets setting.
Oh also - there is a well documented bulk-editing feature: https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docs/DEVICES_BULK_EDITING.md VLANS are documented here: https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docs/SUBNETS.md#vlan-example
OK, sorry to discourage you, it wasn't my intent. I updated to FF 125 during my evaluation and that didn't fix anything, but switching to Chrome and things started working made me think this is just another project designed for Chrome. I've tried to help on projects like that and the attitude I've always gotten back is "then use Chrome like everyone else, weirdo".
I used to project manage a programmer team, and UI is the biggest user complaint I would get hit by. So I'm pretty sensitive to non-intuitive UI design. At this point, I'd rather edit the conf file than use the Settings page. Not sure how to reload that conf file other than to restart the container.
I wish I had time to spend on this submitting actual code, because I like a lot of what I see. Best I could do is add to your list of todo's by creating issues and it sounds like you have plenty on that list already. If you want a couple more, open the spoiler below. In any case, have fun on your project and don't let assholes like me bring you down.
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Remove Last: this isn't great. A selectable list with Edit and Delete buttons is more usable and standard. I saw all those Remove Last buttons throughout the Settings, and it's not much better than Remove All if you have to delete every entry after the faulty one to fix your list. There's plenty of settings that have a dozen items in the list that would all have to be re-entered manually as text.
Dropdowns pre-validate input. Making a box that you can put random additional arguments into means you have to chop up the input in arguments to validate, or maybe you aren't validating it until you press Save, in which case you're making it even tougher to validate the entire file. You can only show items in the dropdown that are valid for that input. Several pages of docker virtual interfaces and named networks is probably not what you want in the dropdown. Eth0 is not a standard interface name anymore in most distros.
That bulk-editing workflow; so I pick items on one page, why would I expect that they'd be carried over when I go to a completely different page in another section of the application? And in that section, there's nothing to indicate that clicking on the gray bar in the middle of the warning text orange box would pop up the list of devices so I can do things with them. What I typically see in things like this is checkboxable list items and a toolbar or menu at the top of the list on the Devices page to perform actions.
Thanks for the constructive feedback.
Still it's weird you had issues on FF as I use it as my main driver. 🤔
Thanks again for the feedback and if you can, please submit an issue for quick UX improvements here-and-there. Again, trying to balance where I spend my time to improve the app 😉