Make homepage more informative/intuitive

I visited http://atlas.torproject.org/ and noticed that "learn more" links me to http://atlas.torproject.org/?#about - as a first time user, I would have expected that to take me to learn more about the network, not the software.

Perhaps there is a nice page with some interesting summary graphs that might be a better landing page?

added component::metrics/relay search owner::irl priority::medium resolution::wontfix severity::normal status::closed type::enhancement labels

I agree this is a good idea.

If you can define "interesting summary graphs", we can add it to the todo list.

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Cc: hellais to karsten
Status: new to needs_information

How about we integrate Walter Kim's metrics graphs into Atlas? The data for those graphs comes as JSON documents from the metrics website, so Atlas wouldn't have to do any complex data processing for that. Walter's code is here.

New suggestion: let's just remove the "learn more" button. We can always add better content later, but while we wait for that content to materialize, we should remove the confusing element from the start page.

Setting to needs_review, even though there is no branch. The fix is trivial, it's just the idea that needs input.

Trac:
Status: needs_information to needs_review

Perhaps changing the name from "Learn More" to "Nerdy details"?

If the consensus is to remove it though it's good for me.

I don't know what the consensus is or whose opinion to count. "Nerdy details" would work, too. Or "Learn more about Atlas". And we could make the button a bit smaller. Or we could remove the button entirely. I don't feel strongly, please say what you like best and I'll change it.

Much of the information from the about page could be moved to the home page, with some of the information being moved to a "code" page similar to the Globe "code" page.

Once #5430 (moved) is implemented, we can display introductory information, a link to the top 10 relays and a link to the developer information. I would also like to add a link to the Tor project homepage, though maybe a hyperlink in the introductory text as opposed to a button.

Trac:
Status: needs_review to accepted
Sponsor: N/A to N/A
Reviewer: N/A to N/A
Severity: N/A to Normal
Summary: change default link to Make homepage more informative/intuitive
Owner: hellais to irl

Work in progress at https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/irl/atlas.git/log/?h=task/6787

Planning to send a mail tomorrow to tor-dev@ and tor-relays@ to get feedback, as these are quite drastic UI changes (though not necessarily drastic functionality changes).

Live example is currently at https://irl.github.io/atlas/#/

Setting back to new, to give someone else a chance at this in case they have time before I do.

Trac:
Status: accepted to new

I believe we'll fix this when we merge with the metrics website, for now this ticket doesn't really serve much purpose.

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Resolution: N/A to wontfix
Status: new to closed

closed

mentioned in issue #10883 (moved)

mentioned in issue #21367 (moved)