Old UI vs New UI? And Louis Rossmann's opinion about it.

[Bakr-Ali]

Louis Rossmann recently made a video about how he prefers the old UI before 0.14.0 because of how practical it was and how it showed more information. He will stick with the 0.13.2 version and won't "upgrade". What are your thoughts about the new UI?

[beatmag]

I can't even fine tune anything anymore. I have no stats on size or %. So I'm flying blind since 0.14 release. Bounding box is also gone.

New UI is nice as it becomes more usable but I have no information to work with.

I didn't think it was that hard to have some stats written some where.

How far is 0.15????? I keep getting birds trigger it.

[NickM-27]

0.15 adds this information and more , there should be a beta within the next month or so

[lawul]

His points of criticism on the UI seem not that bad and quite fixable to me and are very specific to his exapmle use case "someone got murdered a while ago, and I don't remeber which day of the week it happened".
I don't think the UI was made to enable digging in the past like that, but yeah could be improved. Maybe I don't feel that pain, because I only use Frigate for "what happened today and maybe yesterday". And if it's something noteworthy it's going to be exported.

I agree though, that some of the Buttons and Symbols are not very intuitive (at least in the review area especially on the mobile ui). But you learn where to click after a while.

He also criticitzes the missing scores on events, but those where only showing the score of the events screen shot, not the whole event itselt, or am I wrong? So nothing to base your config fine tuning on(?).
If you feel like your detection config needs to be adjusted, the explroe area (of the current dev build - maybe not in 0.14) is way more helpful for that.

Also, I cannot reproduce the long loading times he experiences. The UI feels very responsive to me.

[NickM-27]

Right, the daily review flow is what the new UI mainly addresses right now. The next version of Frigate already has a new Explore page implemented to address this and many other use cases.

He also criticitzes the missing scores on events, but those where only showing the score of the events screen shot, not the whole event itselt, or am I wrong? So nothing to base your config fine tuning on(?).

that is incorrect, the score shown in the UI itself was the highest median score of the object which is what is used for threshold filter.

[blakeblackshear]

I could have made a similar video with all the complaints for 0.13.2 too. Massive empty portion of the screen and tiny thumbnails in the events list on desktop. You cant "find" much there without clicking to expand each event, and many of them overlap with some lasting for hours and hours. No ability scan through time periods and look for missed objects. Watching a nights worth of footage at 8x speed was painful.

It seems to me like most of the complaints are feature gaps that we knew were being created in the first version of the new UI.

These weren't arbitrary changes dreamed up by a UX designer. We and many others used the dev builds daily for months for the specific use cases we intended to address first. We didn't get it all right. It will continue to improve.

It is helpful to hear from users what they do and don't like about the new UI.

[kyle4269]

At the end of the day, change affects all of us. I’ll admit, I wasn’t a fan of the new UI at first either. But once I took the time to understand its functionality and potential, I’ve grown to really appreciate it. The work Blake, Nick, Josh, and the rest of the contributors have put in is truly impressive. From personal experience, I can say that many of the features I missed from the old UI are being integrated into the new version. We just need to be patient.

[shinyzard123]

The new UI is what finally allowed us to drop Blue Iris entirely and move to Frigate. It saves a lot of time and is easier to use. We are looking forward to see what is coming in the next version.

[bubba925]

I prefer the new layout. I didn't at first but I cant even remember how the old layout works anymore. I like being able to review events for the day and export what is important. Mobile use is better as well. Definitely some things that could be improved but overall it serves its purpose and works well.