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by Sujan 3187 days ago
Some feedback:

- Why require the email confirmation before using the software? Not really necessary, is it?

- No Umlauts in project name?

- Standard/advanced settings switcher is confusing

- Crawl Maps is not linked from the "Product" dropdown

- "Recent audits" shows finished and queued ones, but not running ones (which also have no menu point)

- Super simple option to limit crawl to "internal" URLs would be nice (or did I miss it?)

- "Filtered URL Lists" is a strange navigation option, above the main selection especially

- Why no endless scrolling in tables? This is what a desktop app should do better than browsers

Nice tool!
1 comments
hathawayp 3187 days ago
Thanks for all the detail! Here you go:

- Email confirmation is required for the username/password, which is how free and trial licenses are controlled, and ultimately how paid licenses are doled out. So we need it for the licensing.

- No special characters at all! Excepts periods. Sorry!

- Agreed, we need to improve the settings switcher.

- Crawl Maps is not linked - you mean on the website right? I'll fix that.

- Running audits show on the main Dashboard, seemed kinda overkill to put it on Recent Audits as well. No?

- You can switch of 'Check external' in the Advanced Settings. Kinda 'hidden away' to keep the main settings UI cleaner (otherwise where does it end?!)

- "Filtered URL Lists" - they are there because people want them ('a big list of all the URLs') and kept missing them in our usability tests!

- Why no endless scrolling in tables? It's not easy to do because the data is written to disk, rather than stored in RAM (which is the reason it can typically crawl more pages), so it needs to go and fetch/filter/etc... every time.

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Sujan 3186 days ago
All makes sense, thanks for the reply.

> Email confirmation is required for the username/password, which is how free and trial licenses are controlled, and ultimately how paid licenses are doled out. So we need it for the licensing.

If you are interested in getting more free users into the app to try it, I would suggest to rework the licencing stuff a bit to enable the usage without email, but at least without confirmation. Should be worth the effort, and you can still require login when swicthing from free/trial to paid.

> Crawl Maps is not linked - you mean on the website right? I'll fix that.

Yep, no link in the feature dropdown.

> Running audits show on the main Dashboard, seemed kinda overkill to put it on Recent Audits as well. No?

Maybe. I like structure, so was expecting it to be shown a level down from the Dashboard somewhere as well.

> You can switch of 'Check external' in the Advanced Settings. Kinda 'hidden away' to keep the main settings UI cleaner (otherwise where does it end?!)

Ok, I think I am biased because I usually use a tool that is "internal only" by default.

> - "Filtered URL Lists" - they are there because people want them ('a big list of all the URLs') and kept missing them in our usability tests!

Umm, ok. "Crawled URLs" maybe?

> Why no endless scrolling in tables? It's not easy to do because the data is written to disk, rather than stored in RAM (which is the reason it can typically crawl more pages), so it needs to go and fetch/filter/etc... every time.

If some websites can do it with a request to the server each time the next results are loaded, I am sure you can also do that with whatever local database you use ;)

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