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Pi.Alert is dead...💀 Long live NetAlert X 🚀 (network monitoring) (lemmy.world)

After thinking for about a year about it I decided to rename the project to 🚀NetAlertX. This will help prevent confusion about which fork someone is using, and differentiate it from the now stale upstream project. With about 1800 or so commits over the stale project, I thought, this project deserved a new name. It will also...

jokob OP ,

I was thinking about that sooo much, but difficult to find a free domain for networking-related projects. I think I delayed the rename by a month because I couldn't decide. So yeah, I am not the happiest about the X at the end myself, but I also don't have that much money to get a proper domain, so NetAlertX it is :)

jokob OP ,

Open an issue and I will help out

jokob OP ,

😅

jokob OP , (edited )

Hey, thanks for trying out NetAlertX.

I'm using FF as my primary browser so not sure about why your experience is so different.

I think I've done alright, writing an app that is configurable via json manifests, dynamically loaded settings and a plugin system everyone can contribute to.

There are of course things to improve, and almost everything listed in your post is something on my long to-do list. It's very easy to find flaws in things, but what's more difficult is to contribute to the community and improve things.

So if you are up for a challenge - open a PR and help me improve things step by step.

Thanks in advance if you decide to help out! Otherwise, comments like these make free open-source work unenticing🙏

EDIT: Fixed the empty settings (hopefully), added a remove last button on the subnets setting.

Oh also - there is a well documented bulk-editing feature: https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docs/DEVICES_BULK_EDITING.md
VLANS are documented here: https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docs/SUBNETS.md#vlan-example

jokob OP ,

VLANS are supported - check out the docs 😉: https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docs/SUBNETS.md#vlan-example

jokob OP ,

Yep, WYL is great - someone did a comparison video if you are deciding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=v6an9QG2xF0

jokob OP ,

Thanks for the constructive feedback.

  1. I'll keep thinking how to improve the interface selection to simplify the first-time setup. It's a bit lower on my priority list, but the suggestions are valid.
  2. I'm trying to balance configurability and ease of use and so far the current input is OKAY - it limited the number of wrong setups significantly and it still gives options to include additional arguments. But fair point of having more robust input validation. In general, the initial configuration UX, although very important, is less important than day-to-day tasks so I prioritize accordingly. Still, there is lots of to improve and if this was something that made me money I'd be able to spend more time on the niceties - I'm really focused on the core functionality at this point with approx a 80/20 time investment split.
  3. I didn't have any feedback on the workflow yet, but I'll keep this in mind to make it more user-friendly. Once you select the devices they are pre-populated in the grey area so I didn't get any feedback of it being counter-intuitive.

Still it's weird you had issues on FF as I use it as my main driver. 🤔

Thanks again for the feedback and if you can, please submit an issue for quick UX improvements here-and-there. Again, trying to balance where I spend my time to improve the app 😉

jokob OP ,

I know it's not perfect, but hopefully this will improve the editing experience a bit:
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a66410f3-5585-4904-9f06-e63e3b00bc5c.gif

jokob OP ,

Oh cheers a lot, doing what I can! Messages like this make my day so much better. Trying to stay positive and move things forward. 👍

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