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Roadmap

Userscript enhancement for the NextDNS web dashboard — floating control panel, API-driven analytics, domain tools, webhooks. Roadmap mirrors BetterNext (the Chrome extension sibling) plus userscript-specific polish.

Planned Features

Analytics Dashboard

  • Historical time-series beyond the dashboard's default windows (90d / 1y rollups)
  • Per-device drill-down with per-app breakdown (resolve User-Agent guesses)
  • Exportable PDF report (branded, for MSP customers)
  • Anomaly detection: spike in blocked queries per category flagged with desktop notification
  • Cross-profile analytics merge (aggregate across all your profiles)

Domain Management

  • Bulk import: paste a newline-separated list into allow/deny
  • Wildcard builder UI (regex helper + live preview against recent logs)
  • Domain tag editor so the HaGeZi sync doesn't overwrite local curation
  • Undo stack for allow/deny actions with 10-step history
  • Domain-of-the-day: randomly surface a queried domain for review

HaGeZi & Blocklists

  • Per-list version tracking + diff-view on update
  • Scheduled auto-sync (weekly) with desktop notification on change
  • Conflict resolution UI (domain appears in allow + deny)
  • Local blocklist import (paste hosts file / AdBlock syntax)

Webhooks

  • Webhook filter expressions (domain regex, device, status, time window)
  • Payload template editor (Discord embed, Slack block-kit, generic JSON)
  • Webhook test button with last-5 deliveries log
  • Rate-limit guard (drop duplicate events within N seconds)

Parental Controls

  • Weekly schedule UI (heatmap-style time block editor) beyond recreation time
  • Per-device override scheduling
  • Content-category bulk-toggle presets (Safe Mode, Work Mode, Chill Mode)

UX / Platform

  • Theme Studio: custom CSS editor with live preview and export/import
  • Compact vs roomy density toggle
  • Keyboard shortcut picker (rebindable) — currently no shortcuts
  • Mobile-viewport layout for the floating panel
  • Firefox parity verification on every release (Violentmonkey + Tampermonkey)

Competitive Research

  • Pi-hole admin UI — richer network-level analytics; mirror top-domain treemap and tail-log UX.
  • AdGuard Home — better schedule editor and bulk list management; borrow its list-manager layout.
  • Control D dashboard — clean profile-switcher UI, good reference for the cross-profile merge.
  • BetterNext (sibling repo) — keep feature parity; CI diff on every release to catch drift.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Browser-side DoH verification indicator (are you actually using NextDNS right now?)
  • Per-tab / per-origin query log filter
  • Query replay: send the same DNS query from the browser for debugging
  • CLI twin (Node) for headless export of analytics to CSV via the same NextDNS API
  • Public read-only dashboard share link for MSP customers
  • IndexedDB cache of last 24h logs for offline browsing

Open-Source Research (Round 2)

Related OSS Projects

Features to Borrow

  • In-log allow/deny buttons with "add root domain" / "add specific" / "edit-then-add" options (NXEnhanced) — biggest daily-use win, currently NDNS lacks this
  • Client-side log hiding rules (hide crashlytics, telemetry noise) separate from blocklists (NXEnhanced)
  • Request-rewrite trick to unlock 50-domain analytics (Analytics+) — implement as an NDNS toggle, undocumented but widely used
  • Favicon-on-domain in logs/lists via icons.duckduckgo.com or NextDNS favicon service (nextdns-tools) — already common but worth auditing NDNS coverage
  • HaGeZi / OISD / 1Hosts bulk-import wizard (hagezi-to-nextdns) — fetch + chunked POST with NextDNS API ratelimit handling
  • Log export to CSV/JSON with 2-year pagination (nextdns-tools)
  • Statistics dashboard: unique domains, device counts, blocked ratios (nextdns-tools) — supplements native analytics

Patterns & Architectures Worth Studying

  • Request-interception via fetch/XHR hook to rewrite API query params before they hit NextDNS backend (Analytics+) — userscript-level, no server needed
  • Chunked API pagination with exponential backoff for large log pulls (nextdns-tools) — NextDNS ratelimits aggressively on the logs endpoint
  • Blocklist merge with deduplication and per-list provenance tracking (hagezi-to-nextdns) — lets users see "this domain came from HaGeZi Multi"
  • Cross-session floating panel state that persists via GM_setValue with versioned schema — survives NDNS UI redesigns