Cleanup Fun Statistics

[m1rm]

Info

The fun statistics section displays statistics on pre-grouped packages based on categories.

With the categories growing in entries, it could be nice to improve the UI (and UX) alongside with it. Packages with lower reported percentages could be rising in popularity. But having 10+ packages in the initial line-chart and having to manually deselect single ones is not a nice UX. Also, the user needs to have knowledge about the packages prior to visiting the page.

One way to handle this could be do introduce filters to the fun views. Fitting names have yet to be found but what those filters could express would be:

• rising in reported usage
• sinking in reported usage
• added within the last 6 months (might be duplicate of rising in reported usage -> maybe also a time range filter would be a nice thing)

Another - visually simpler approach - would be to have only packages surpassing/or staying below a percentage threshold displayed on first load and offer CTAs to display all/vice-versa. But that requires an explanation somewhere on the page.

Todo

• evaluate/try out ways to improve the UX in fun statistics for statistics with many packages

[EdJoPaTo]

I think it's still interesting to keep some of them. For example the mate, lxde or cinnamon Desktops are kind of known, and it's interesting to see their share on Arch compared to other desktop environments. Even when it's quite low.

It's also interesting to learn about alternatives that could be fun to explore.

Looking through all categories I currently only see instant messengers (and tcsh) below 5% which I never heard of before.

[m1rm]

@EdJoPaTo thank you for your input, I think it is quite valuable. We have been thinking on how to keep fun statistics in a way that is not cluttered and jet interesting for people. I think you are quite right that the fun section could be a nice way to explore alternatives. A 5% threshold was the simplest thing we could think of so far, but I will give it some second thoughts 👍