LS97 wrote:

When was the decision made to change the remix icon design to a tree?
I understand the tree better symbolises the branching nature of the remix visualisation, but it's not a very good indication of what it is to the first-time user. Wasn't the spiral better in this case?

I believe the symbol for “remixes” is still the spiral. When viewing stats on a project, the spiral shows how many remixes of that project there are. The tree represents a different thing entirely (the remix tree, not the remixes themselves) and the number next to it is not the number of remixes but the number of projects on the tree, including itself and its parents.

jTron wrote:

LS97 wrote:

When was the decision made to change the remix icon design to a tree?
I understand the tree better symbolises the branching nature of the remix visualisation, but it's not a very good indication of what it is to the first-time user. Wasn't the spiral better in this case?

I believe the symbol for “remixes” is still the spiral. When viewing stats on a project, the spiral shows how many remixes of that project there are. The tree represents a different thing entirely (the remix tree, not the remixes themselves) and the number next to it is not the number of remixes but the number of projects on the tree, including itself and its parents.

Thanks for the great answer! It makes sense.

LS97 wrote:

jTron wrote:

LS97 wrote:

When was the decision made to change the remix icon design to a tree?
I understand the tree better symbolises the branching nature of the remix visualisation, but it's not a very good indication of what it is to the first-time user. Wasn't the spiral better in this case?

I believe the symbol for “remixes” is still the spiral. When viewing stats on a project, the spiral shows how many remixes of that project there are. The tree represents a different thing entirely (the remix tree, not the remixes themselves) and the number next to it is not the number of remixes but the number of projects on the tree, including itself and its parents.

Thanks for the great answer! It makes sense.

Yup! That's why we needed to come up with a new icon. We'll take into account your feedback that the tree icon is confusing though, and hopefully come up with a better button. Thanks!

go the project
click the remix tree
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scratchisthebest wrote:

dsquare wrote:

All the “unshared” projects on the tree have been shared at some point (so maybe a person shared and then unshared or deleted that project.) We have to show those because people may have remixed those projects while they were shared. It won't show never-shared projects.

Unshared projects that are leaf nodes (edge of tree) still show up though which seems a little weird.

Sometimes projects get really really small though. there should be a minimum size.

also what's with the ground? the colors need a little work to make it more, you know, tree like.

folowing imgae:

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