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<blockquote data-quote="davegson" data-source="post: 964219" data-attributes="member: 92101"><p>Some additional details on the Default DNS Provider topic:</p><p><a href="https://safing.io/blog/2020/07/07/how-safing-selects-its-default-dns-providers/" target="_blank">How Safing Selects its Default DNS Providers</a></p><p></p><p>Thanks for your input - we will revisit this at some point.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The difficulty is we have three states: blocked, allowed and failed. We could represent all three type colors within the bar, but that would add more colors to an already colorful UI and likely overwhelm the user.</p><p></p><p>We decided to only highlight the allowed connections. So even though the new solution is not as explicit in some cases, it much better gives an answer to - what we believe - are the most common questions a user has:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">How many connections is an app making?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">How many connections is that app allowed to make?</li> </ul><p>With the bar, you easily see the total amount of connections and a rough percentage of what is allowed. Before, we just had a grey dot which could mean anything between 1% blocked and 99% blocked.</p><p></p><p>I assume you probably trained yourself to check whether an app's connections are fully blocked by checking for the red dot. Now instead you can just check for a fully grey bar which implies all connections were blocked. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I took note on the Light Theme, here is the GitHub issue about that:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/safing/portmaster-ui/issues/169" target="_blank">Add a Light Theme · Issue #169 · safing/portmaster-ui</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davegson, post: 964219, member: 92101"] Some additional details on the Default DNS Provider topic: [URL="https://safing.io/blog/2020/07/07/how-safing-selects-its-default-dns-providers/"]How Safing Selects its Default DNS Providers[/URL] Thanks for your input - we will revisit this at some point. The difficulty is we have three states: blocked, allowed and failed. We could represent all three type colors within the bar, but that would add more colors to an already colorful UI and likely overwhelm the user. We decided to only highlight the allowed connections. So even though the new solution is not as explicit in some cases, it much better gives an answer to - what we believe - are the most common questions a user has: [LIST] [*]How many connections is an app making? [*]How many connections is that app allowed to make? [/LIST] With the bar, you easily see the total amount of connections and a rough percentage of what is allowed. Before, we just had a grey dot which could mean anything between 1% blocked and 99% blocked. I assume you probably trained yourself to check whether an app's connections are fully blocked by checking for the red dot. Now instead you can just check for a fully grey bar which implies all connections were blocked. I took note on the Light Theme, here is the GitHub issue about that: [URL="https://github.com/safing/portmaster-ui/issues/169"]Add a Light Theme · Issue #169 · safing/portmaster-ui[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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