Nextclade Web: Confusing unwanted dataset switching

[ivan-aksamentov]

Reported by @tsibley here

For me, the "Suggest automatically" feature of Nextclade was enabled by default (though it seems like a sticky preference?). With it enabled:

1. Load a Nextstrain dataset via the URL, e.g. https://nextclade-git-feat-fetch-auspice-sidecar-json-nextstrain.vercel.app/?dataset-json-url=https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/all-time
2. Load a file of sequences
3. Notice suggestions are made for an official dataset, but the one manually loaded via the URL remains selected.
4. Run the analysis.
5. Flip back to "Start".
6. Notice that the dataset has been switched out for one of the suggested ones.

This seems confusing?

[ivan-aksamentov]

@tsibley I could not immediately reproduce this. For me the tree-based external dataset is displayed in step 6. I am using Chromium browser.

Could there be some additional conditions or steps to reproduce this? Could you make a screen-cast when you have a spare minute?

01.m.mp4

[ivan-aksamentov]

There is a serious problem with local storage since #1455. It might be causing various flukes, including this one. I added another issue: #1464.

[tsibley]

Ah! I just tested this again and to reproduce I have to flip from Results → Dataset → Start. It's fine if I flip directly from Results → Start; the custom dataset stays selected. It's also fine if auto-suggest is disabled, even going from Results → Dataset → Start.

I suspect the screencast is unnecessary with the above info, but since I made it anyway here it is.

Screencast_00001.webm