@pirate feel free to assign me the issue, I can work on some prototyping this weekend so I can show you my ideas and we can define the scope and features that would be nice to include. I can also try to start including tailwind in the project although it's my first time with Django so I might need some help on that. Let me know if there's anyone else worth it to mention on the UI topic, I would love to hear some feedback on usability improvements we can include.

This is an example of a previous pet project I worked on during my first try on HTMX. All the interactions, including the right drawer are built using htmx & tailwind. The only custom javascript there is for the epub reader library, which is an isolated template rendered after the html or htmx navigate to that specific page.

This would be enormously helpful to have thumbnails of all archived content, the current table is useful for seeing many items at a time but sometimes I'd rather be quickly reminded of what an item actually is via a thumbnail.

There is actually already a thumbnail grid view in the upper right of the filters area (on the snapshots admin list).

The button to use it is way too small, so most people don't see it. We should make it more prominent.

Thanks, yeah had never noticed that before. The thumbnails don't seem to load for me though, but when I click on each item I can see a thumbnail underneath their SingleFile section at least:

The Snapshot grid view thumbnails are only based on the screenshot output, so if you're missing that output which it looks like you are, then nothing will show.

Do you have chrome or the screenshot method disabled? If you open a new issue with the output of archivebox version I can help debug the missing screenshots.

I believe when I created these archives I only selected the SingleFile option. It's been a few years since I last used AB so getting familiar with it again after seeing the HN post.

It would be useful to have AB utilise the thumbnail from SingleFile, or whatever alternative archive types are available if screenshot wasn't selected. I think I might have not selected Screenshot as an additional archive type to reduce storage usage.

Singlefile is fairly heavy to use for thumbnails, you'd effecitvley be loading iframes of 40 sites all at once to view the grid. I would re-enable screenshots, they're not too big usually, just an extra 1MB/url.

Thanks, will do!

Singlefile is fairly heavy to use for thumbnails, you'd effecitvley be loading iframes of 40 sites all at once to view the grid. I would re-enable screenshots, they're not too big usually, just an extra 1MB/url.

Might make sense to generate a thumbnail (in landscape, or even better use the image provided in the open graph metadata if available) of the screenshot just for the grid view. I'll put some work into getting that grid/list view button into a spot where people can actually see it.

Other things about the grid: Link to the index.html, I'm not a fan of this massive header and prefer to be sent to the singlefile.html when I click the snapshot. Maybe I can make that configurable? There's too much noise on the grid view anyways: Do we care about the datetime, number of outputs or size in MB. Even the checkbox for selecting them is something that should be switched elsewhere or by tapping for a longer duration.

The filters weren't mentioned, but I'd love to change them to something like the date filters that Firefox's History window has: Today, Yestday, Last 7 Days, This Month, December 2024, ... older than 3 Months. Thoughts?