1052368 - Add a deprecation notice to Advanced Search

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Socorro :: Webapp, task)

Description

[[DEACTIVATED] Adrian Gaudebert]

We still have many users using Advanced Search. If we want to remove that page at some point, we should invite our users to use Super Search instead. 

One solution would be to add an exponential sleep to the queries on that page. For example, the first query completes normally, the 2nd adds a 1 second sleep, the 3rd adds 10 seconds, the 4th adds 1000 seconds... We can then add a subtle message next to the loader saying something along the lines of "taking to long? Try Super Search! "

Or, we can simply add a text at the top of that page saying that it is being depreciated! :-)

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

No, please do not artificially slow it down or something crazy like that. Adding a note is OK. But there are still a number of good uses for it, mostly because advanced search UI is more comfortable, albeit less flexible.

Comment 2

[Daniel Maher [:phrawzty]]

(In reply to Robert Kaiser (:[e-mail]) from comment #1)
> No, please do not artificially slow it down or something crazy like that.

Pretty sure that was a joke. :)

Comment 3

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

How about, every time you use the Advanced Search a floating goat appears and using MIDI sound it can make a sound as it flies over the screen. The 2nd time you use Advanced Search 2 goats appear. Etc. Later a message that says "Hate goats? Try Super Search!"

I would suggest we simply don't do a depreciation thing at all and just let it sit. There's little reason to remove it since people (outside Mozilla) are still using it. 

I think I saw another bug filed about removing the waffle switch on super search. Can we just make the "Advanced Search" link simply depend on a django setting that defaults to super search?

Comment 4

[Daniel Maher [:phrawzty]]

(In reply to Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe] from comment #3)
> I would suggest we simply don't do a depreciation thing at all and just let
> it sit. There's little reason to remove it since people (outside Mozilla)
> are still using it. 

To be fair, that's another discussion entirely - this bug is just about adding a deprecation notice (which, for the record, I support).  Adding something like « Our old friend Advanced Search is nearing retirement. You should check out the new hotness: Super Search, which is way better in almost every way. » is fairly innocuous.  My point is that we don't (yet) need to be aggressive, but we should be pointing people towards Super Search in no uncertain terms.

Comment 5

[[DEACTIVATED] Adrian Gaudebert]

PR: https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/pull/2452
Screen shot: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/328790/4767656/66be307c-5b60-11e4-9c85-30f34b54c51b.png

Comment 6

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/socorro

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/20c433d81d45b7ff45aa3efd0422a01109f7c1df
Fixes bug 1052368 - Added a deprecation notice to Advanced Search.

https://github.com/mozilla/socorro/commit/aee2a1ab2f79afc9200bce455df8f3d92e52810d
Merge pull request #2452 from AdrianGaudebert/1052368-deprecation-notice

Fixes bug 1052368 - Added a deprecation notice to Advanced Search.