Elements of the GUI are a little confusing to non-experts

[oijn]

The reason I installed & use bepasty is to allow family and friends an easy way to share photos & videos etc... that are not easily shared by email during the current pandemic lockdowns and inability to travel and meet-up.

My family are not that computer literate. What I have identified having to help them navigate bepasty is that the order, placement of elements of the GUI are a little confusing.

I understand that bepasty is a tool used by experts - and that the elements make sense to experts. So I understand that there may be good reasons not to change the GUI.

To explain what I have identified for example:

"Maximum lifetime value (choose before dragging or submitting)" is below the text box - but should be changed before text submit or file upload. What happens is that my family get confused when they upload files - then change the lifetime and it doesn't change.

Another is that file upload is independent of the text box... however, the submit button is only for the text box. What happens (still happens) is that my family upload files - and then hit submit (a common website expected behavior). I then get an empty text entry as well as the uploaded files. However, the link then provided is for the 0 sized text item. As admin - I then have to find and give them the link to the files & clean-up the 0 sized text items.

What I've done for my family is change the order of the GUI elements which has helped. Moved the lifetime to the top, then file upload, then text entry, etc... It was a quick&dirty change to minimize support calls and admin effort. Maybe there are other ways to make the GUI expert & family friendly?

I don't know if the bepasty team consider it useful to evaluate the GUI anytime in the future?

[ThomasWaldmann]

We don't have much UI/UX development activity here, mostly due to a lack of developers being able to productively work on that.
Personally, I also prefer to work on the python code rather than UI stuff.

But if you could make a PR (with screenshots before / after) that improves UX/UI, that would be very welcome.

[ThomasWaldmann]

BTW, there are some open tickets that relate to showing pictures, maybe interesting for you also?

[oijn]

OK - understood. The last time I did any real Web UI/UX was 20(ish) years ago and as I've found out a lot has changed.
My changes at the moment are crude - quick & dirty to reduce hands-on admin effort.

I'll be happy to play around with this a little more and make the changes and make a PR when I have some nicer changes to show. It won't be in the V1.0 timeframe - but given I'm now in lockdown v3.0 - I'll use this as a learn a new skill to pass the time.

Thx.