I bring here good news. Ever since we shipped UI deployments we entered an interesting state where our UI talked about “Releases” and “Deployments”. Worse than that we used to have one page to list each so newcomers would be confused why they have one but not the other. It even feels like a bug sometimes.
To Improve on that, we shipped a small improvement to consolidate both in the same page, the Activities page. Plus you will also be able to see live updating deployments in the overview page too.
Alongside it there were some minor tweaks shipped too:
- Renamed “Configuration” tab to “fly.toml” (it was very odd to have Configuration and Settings on apps pages).
- Fixed “Restart” button flickering: this button was hidden when it detected that there’s no running machines but with global state being hard it usually flickered between appearing and not. Right now it’s disabled until its actually possible to use it.
- Added a modal to “Restart” button explaining that it only restarts running machines.
- Added a Deploy/Launch button right to the restart button.
That’s it for now (narrator: “he lies as he knows he has another fresh produce to write as soon as he sends this one”).
How do you feel about the state of our app dashboard? Feel free to shoot feedback, even unrelated to this update