It’s been a long time since our last major release back in 2024!
Thanks for hanging in there, but I promise this release was worth the wait!
In our last big announcement in 2024 we promised a plugin marketplace, P2P archiving by connecting servers together, and better UI / peformance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860909
I'm pleased to share that all those promises have now been delivered! Please let me know your feedback and open issues, I'm excited to hear how the community uses this release (especially because we have 0 analytics, comments are the only feedback we get).
I just upgraded from a relatively old version of archivebox (v0.7) and I am not a fan of the new UI. Is there a way I can switch back to the old layout. I found it a lot more intuitive and information dense.
EDIT: To be more specific with my feedback, in the new UI the 'FILES SAVED' column is not showing anything for all of the previous entries I'd made in v0.7. Can this be fixed? It's a huge setback and makes the v0.9 layout unusable.
Absolutely can definitely fix this relatively quickly, a few questions:
- did you do the full filesystem migration yet with `archivebox update --migrate-only`?
- what OS and screen size are you viewing on? and are you looking at the admin snapshot list or the public snapshot list?
- is it just the compactness of the old emoji icons on one line you preferred? or something more than that? the reason we changed it is because we have 20+ more icons now, so it no longer fits on one line easily and we cant easily represent every plugin with only common emoji
If you're able to share one of your old snapshot folders in a new Github issue that would be super helpful as then I can reproduce what you're seeing quickly.
> - did you do the full filesystem migration yet with `archivebox update --migrate-only`?
Ok I was missing this step. I did a migration with the command you shared and I now see the icons.
But while I can see the icons, I can't access the relevant files, the links are broken. As an example, the singlepage icon leads me to a path that is correct except for the .html in the URI.
> - is it just the compactness of the old emoji icons on one line you preferred? or something more than that? the reason we changed it is because we have 20+ more icons now, so it no longer fits on one line easily and we cant easily represent every plugin with only common emoji
Yes, I still prefer the previous one-line rendering. It is more compact and less busy. For my own personal use-case, I don't care for majority of the archive options.
I understand that you had to switch to a different layout given you now have 20+ icons but if there's a way I can hack it to look like the old layout that would be great. Maybe a config setting that allows power users to specify what actually shows up.
> - what OS and screen size are you viewing on? and are you looking at the admin snapshot list or the public snapshot list?
Ubuntu 24 and 1080p screen
If there is no easy fix for the broken links let me know. I'm more than happy to continue this conversation on a github ticket.
Fixed on dev and rolling out now. I didnt remove the preview images completely but I made it all significantly more compact. Down to 1 line with colorized icons for the most important outputs.
Thanks for the release! I'm a big fan of archivebox to combat link rot for documents I frequently reference, and this update looks HUGE! Very excited to try out the new features :)
Congrats on the release! I enjoyed ArchiveBox while I used it, but had to stop using it because the bundled Chromium would get stuck almost daily, bringing my laptop to a crawl. It was a known bug, but it looks like it has been fixed! ( https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1714 )
I'm looking forward to updating and trying out the new features as well :)
Yes, it was (still is) an annoying Chromium bug that affects tons of browser automation projects, not just ArchiveBox.
But v0.9.x now has built-in chrome zombie killing at the start of every crawl, so it shouldnt happen anymore even if Chromium misbehaves! Definitely open a github issue if you see any performance issues at all!
It’s been a long time since our last major release back in 2024!
Thanks for hanging in there, but I promise this release was worth the wait!
In our last big announcement in 2024 we promised a plugin marketplace, P2P archiving by connecting servers together, and better UI / peformance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41860909
I'm pleased to share that all those promises have now been delivered! Please let me know your feedback and open issues, I'm excited to hear how the community uses this release (especially because we have 0 analytics, comments are the only feedback we get).
I just upgraded from a relatively old version of archivebox (v0.7) and I am not a fan of the new UI. Is there a way I can switch back to the old layout. I found it a lot more intuitive and information dense.
EDIT: To be more specific with my feedback, in the new UI the 'FILES SAVED' column is not showing anything for all of the previous entries I'd made in v0.7. Can this be fixed? It's a huge setback and makes the v0.9 layout unusable.
Absolutely can definitely fix this relatively quickly, a few questions:
- did you do the full filesystem migration yet with `archivebox update --migrate-only`?
- what OS and screen size are you viewing on? and are you looking at the admin snapshot list or the public snapshot list?
- is it just the compactness of the old emoji icons on one line you preferred? or something more than that? the reason we changed it is because we have 20+ more icons now, so it no longer fits on one line easily and we cant easily represent every plugin with only common emoji
If you're able to share one of your old snapshot folders in a new Github issue that would be super helpful as then I can reproduce what you're seeing quickly.
> - did you do the full filesystem migration yet with `archivebox update --migrate-only`?
Ok I was missing this step. I did a migration with the command you shared and I now see the icons.
But while I can see the icons, I can't access the relevant files, the links are broken. As an example, the singlepage icon leads me to a path that is correct except for the .html in the URI.
> - is it just the compactness of the old emoji icons on one line you preferred? or something more than that? the reason we changed it is because we have 20+ more icons now, so it no longer fits on one line easily and we cant easily represent every plugin with only common emoji
Yes, I still prefer the previous one-line rendering. It is more compact and less busy. For my own personal use-case, I don't care for majority of the archive options.
I understand that you had to switch to a different layout given you now have 20+ icons but if there's a way I can hack it to look like the old layout that would be great. Maybe a config setting that allows power users to specify what actually shows up.
> - what OS and screen size are you viewing on? and are you looking at the admin snapshot list or the public snapshot list?
Ubuntu 24 and 1080p screen
If there is no easy fix for the broken links let me know. I'm more than happy to continue this conversation on a github ticket.
Ok thanks, super helpful.
I will push a fix today for the broken links and I'll try and make the icons more compact / more similar to the old style.
Do you want the preview screenshot/thumbnail on the left also smaller/hidable or is it just the icons part that you want closer to the old format?
> Do you want the preview screenshot/thumbnail on the left also smaller/hidable or is it just the icons part that you want closer to the old format?
Making the preview thumbnail hidable would be fantastic!
Fixed on dev and rolling out now. I didnt remove the preview images completely but I made it all significantly more compact. Down to 1 line with colorized icons for the most important outputs.
Thanks for the release! I'm a big fan of archivebox to combat link rot for documents I frequently reference, and this update looks HUGE! Very excited to try out the new features :)
Congrats on the release! I enjoyed ArchiveBox while I used it, but had to stop using it because the bundled Chromium would get stuck almost daily, bringing my laptop to a crawl. It was a known bug, but it looks like it has been fixed! ( https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1714 )
I'm looking forward to updating and trying out the new features as well :)
Yes, it was (still is) an annoying Chromium bug that affects tons of browser automation projects, not just ArchiveBox.
But v0.9.x now has built-in chrome zombie killing at the start of every crawl, so it shouldnt happen anymore even if Chromium misbehaves! Definitely open a github issue if you see any performance issues at all!