The New Project Hub

For inspiration I occasionally like to take deep dives through the Project Hub.
Unfortunately in doing so today I discovered that the new Hub severely hampers my ability to do this.

I see that it is now in a single page format where you have to continually click the "SEE MORE" button to extend the page. Then when you combine that with the inability to right click to open a project in a new tab. This means I have to click directly into the project page losing my position in my search and when I back out it returns all the way back to the beginning and I have to start all over again.

The old Project Hub was ~280 pages with the new Hub. We now have a single page that extends to 280 pages long, but with no indication of how long it actually is.
Since we can no longer open a project page in a new tab, this forces us to lose position on the current page and then we have to start our search over from the beginning .

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Bottom of this page: "Report Issues."

Someone evidently thought that the social media messaging paradigm would be a good fit....

For what its worth I did have a look out f interest but since nothing seems to happen when the project tiles are clicked I very quickly gave up browsing in frustration so i sympathize.. In case anyone from the hub reads this, I am using Firefox as my browser, version 108.01.

Although I am grateful for the link from xfpd, sadly the mentioned page/section states "contact the Arduino Project Hub support team for assistance." but then fails to provide any contact information. There seems to be none on the project hub site either....

Here is an alternate way to list each project. You can right-click and open in a new tab/window.

That was an unfortunate omission. I have submitted a pull request to add the missing information to the article:

Please submit any bug reports or suggestions via the support contact form here:

https://www.arduino.cc/en/contact-us

Thank you.

I had forgotten that Google can do that. It is also possible to add a space and then a search term to narrow it down a bit, for example:

Do an Advanced Search on Google - Computer - Google Search Help

Also pushed upstairs as IMHO this stems the flow of the pages for projects.
People would have mostly picked a project they are interested in via whatever means they use and simply want to get along and look at something.

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The backroom has spoken AAANNND !
The MORE option will be removed in the next push update.
Thanks for bringing this up.

Arduino relies on user input to help make things better.
It is not always easy to get what you all need and sometimes it is darned near impossible but your voices do count.

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I echo these points made above..
Arduino.cc: Please... please... please bring back the ability to click on a link to the individual projects, just a standard link in each project title, then we'd have the choice to open the link in a new window and keep our place in the search, and it would keep those that like the new interface happy too.
This is frustrating for all who visit the site, including those who may have a disability as, since the page is almost entirely reliant on Javascript to load the project list, won't degrade gracefully to basic HTML for access by screenreaders or other accessibility software.
The google hack is a good sticking plaster, but having to do something like that is a sure sign that the UX for a section of your website needs a little bit of redesign.

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Thanks for addressing the issue.
Please consider the following as well:

  1. Add an "All Projects" page where I can apply filters and sorting.

  2. Allow users to open projects on a new tab. I mean why disable it? what's the benefit?

  3. A minor problem, the project blocks look empty/bad when you mouse hover them. Screenshot:

my original post.

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