Inara updates, bug reports, requests
When you try to link your accounts, you may receive the http error 400 about expired tokens. It's an issue on Frontier's end that I cannot solve on Inara. Fortunately, the solution is simple - please give it a few days and it will start to work later (probably when the access token on their cAPI server expires). If the error 400 appeared later and it worked before, try to reauthenticate as said in the error message (may be just a regular reauth forced by Frontier). Alternatively, you can try to use the workaround below. If even that won't work, it's the problem described above.
Please vote for the issue on the official bug tracker: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/21258
Possible workaround: Try to connect the account while you are in the game. It may work.
Game data and imports not available for console commanders and PC players with Legacy game version
Inara supports only the Live game version (so PC Horizons 4.0 and Odyssey) since game update 14, thus all the game data on the site and the commander data imports work only for those game versions.
03 Aug 2022, 12:45pm
03 Aug 2022, 2:04pm
I am not sure what exactly isn't working on the traffic report? Are there no star systems displayed for you at all or something else?
Oh, it is working now. Sorry, i should have did a screen grab.
03 Aug 2022, 3:12pm
For those of us with 'big' screens (mine doubles as a work computer) it seems, to me, to tie in with the ease of having more than window open at any time. e.g. I can see what missing materials I need when trading of mining for engineering mats. etc
Thank you Artie for all the work you put into INARA for us
03 Aug 2022, 3:25pm
03 Aug 2022, 4:55pm
For example "TAG Shipname" is showing as "Tag Shipname" on the new site.
I also have feature request/enhancement.
Is it possible on the search nearest star systems to have an option to show systems with 0 stations?
When I'm moving my carrier I use the search nearest star systems to find a system near my target which is relatively empty (especially near busy systems which are full of carriers). This so that carrier is near the main star, easy to find on the NAV panel and so that I'm not contributing to the "too many carriers in one place" issue many CMDRs have.
At the moment it only shows systems with at least 1 carrier/station so I'm relying on another CMDR having a carrier in a system close by and having that carrier in Inara for it show on the nearest star systems list.
03 Aug 2022, 5:14pm
The only peeves I've had so far:
- System overview doesn't show which factions owns the main stations, so something that used to be a quick glance is now an extra click away.
- System overview also doesn't show the station economies. Perhaps some handy icons could be added for this information.
03 Aug 2022, 5:21pm
One minor qaulity of life thing I've noticed so far. When going through my systems, I usually copy-paste the system name from a sheet into the search. I used to be able to just paste it in and hit enter and that would take me to the new page, but now hitting enter takes me to the page of the system I last searched. Instead, I need to wait for the dropdown with the list of systems matching my search to pop up so I can select the correct one. It would be nice to go back to being able to press enter immediately after pasting. It would cut several seconds per system off of my routine.
03 Aug 2022, 5:41pm
I found an issue earlier where I couldn't accept a friend request, giving me an error message that the user was not found or was ignoring me. But it worked fine in the old UI.
Also I haven't found the list of squadron join requests yet.
Previously this was found under Rooster > Join Requests but I can't see it anymore since the redesign. Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong place or is it restricted now to the squadron command?
03 Aug 2022, 6:02pm
ChromaLemonI really hope we can have the option to use the old version of Inara. I don't really have trouble navigating it since it's been what I've been used to using for 5 years. The new Inara just seems like it was designed for mobile devices and somehow blown up onto a desktop screen. All of the buttons are unnecessarily huge and there's just a lot of wasted space.
Just for the curiosity, which physical display size and screen resolution, please? The old version of Inara will certainly stay here for some time, but no promises on when it will be discontinued.
1920*1080, 24" monitor. Both monitors are the same size and same resolution. Using Brave (so Chrome).
Like honestly the website looks really great on my iPhone, but I'm not using Inara on my mobile phone while playing Elite. I'm using my second monitor. And even if I didn't have a second monitor I'd rather alt-tab than look up Elite related things on my phone.
03 Aug 2022, 6:10pm
03 Aug 2022, 6:14pm
Iwao KishiroI think I'm in minority but I don't like the new INARA. It's very counter-intuitive and lacks the side panel which was one of the things that made navigating site very easy. The new system is very meh and can't really be comfortably operated on the touch screen, because most of the sections (which were the side tab) are a pop-up now. You need a mouse pointer to make it appear...
Thanks for the feedback.
aljaz77maybe give us a option to make the text smaller. i feel like the old version was more dense and here there is just a bit to much "empty space" between content. also text is kinda big.
Maybe, but probably not, it's just another variable that I need to count with. The font size is slightly bigger, but not that much (+0.6px), there is rather some extra padding, etc. added there to give stuff more space and to not overwhelm people with a ton of text and data squished together (which was quite frequent complaint from newer users).
Yum KaxI, for one, like the new version of INARA so far.
For those of us with 'big' screens (mine doubles as a work computer) it seems, to me, to tie in with the ease of having more than window open at any time. e.g. I can see what missing materials I need when trading of mining for engineering mats. etc
Thank you Artie for all the work you put into INARA for us
Thank you, too.
EpaphusI've noticed an issue on the new site, Ship names now only capitalise the first letter of each word.
For example "TAG Shipname" is showing as "Tag Shipname" on the new site.
I also have feature request/enhancement.
Is it possible on the search nearest star systems to have an option to show systems with 0 stations?
When I'm moving my carrier I use the search nearest star systems to find a system near my target which is relatively empty (especially near busy systems which are full of carriers). This so that carrier is near the main star, easy to find on the NAV panel and so that I'm not contributing to the "too many carriers in one place" issue many CMDRs have.
At the moment it only shows systems with at least 1 carrier/station so I'm relying on another CMDR having a carrier in a system close by and having that carrier in Inara for it show on the nearest star systems list.
There was no behavior change in ship naming between versions - all caps names may be converted while imported, but you can adjust that in the ship edit.
I think that I can add such search option there, but not soon as I have some things I want to finish first, but noted.
03 Aug 2022, 6:22pm
DanierosReally enjoying the look of the new version.
The only peeves I've had so far:
- System overview doesn't show which factions owns the main stations, so something that used to be a quick glance is now an extra click away.
- System overview also doesn't show the station economies. Perhaps some handy icons could be added for this information.
Thank you for the notes. Just extra questions, to get the rationale behind it - why you want to see those information? To support some specific faction, looking for trades in a specific economy or something else?
Queens_PawnNew Inara is looking great. Love the new faction conflict status view. Makes it a lot clearer who is winning in any given war or election.
One minor qaulity of life thing I've noticed so far. When going through my systems, I usually copy-paste the system name from a sheet into the search. I used to be able to just paste it in and hit enter and that would take me to the new page, but now hitting enter takes me to the page of the system I last searched. Instead, I need to wait for the dropdown with the list of systems matching my search to pop up so I can select the correct one. It would be nice to go back to being able to press enter immediately after pasting. It would cut several seconds per system off of my routine.
Thanks, it should be possible to do now and trigger the search immediately after the name is pasted.
Dark SessionHi Artie, I'm still getting used to the new UI but I like what I saw so far. Very nice work!
I found an issue earlier where I couldn't accept a friend request, giving me an error message that the user was not found or was ignoring me. But it worked fine in the old UI.
Also I haven't found the list of squadron join requests yet.
Previously this was found under Rooster > Join Requests but I can't see it anymore since the redesign. Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong place or is it restricted now to the squadron command?
Thank you for the report - was it just a one time error or it was not possible to accept the request at all and it needed to be done in the old version? Just to get a context to replicate the problem. The join requests are not under Squadron management, but now I am not sure if it's not visible just to people having join request management rights, I will check (and change) that.
ChromaLemon
1920*1080, 24" monitor. Both monitors are the same size and same resolution. Using Brave (so Chrome).
Like honestly the website looks really great on my iPhone, but I'm not using Inara on my mobile phone while playing Elite. I'm using my second monitor. And even if I didn't have a second monitor I'd rather alt-tab than look up Elite related things on my phone.
Thanks for the details.
MkzNew colors are much worse then previous. Red on black is very hard to read, orage is more or less ok. But I have not found any color theme in user settings.
Just to be sure - send me a screenshot, please.
03 Aug 2022, 6:53pm
Artie
Thank you for the report - was it just a one time error or it was not possible to accept the request at all and it needed to be done in the old version? Just to get a context to replicate the problem.
It was not possible to accept it at all in the new version. I tried it multiple times and had to switch to the old version to accept it.
03 Aug 2022, 7:05pm
03 Aug 2022, 7:09pm
ArtieMkzNew colors are much worse then previous. Red on black is very hard to read, orage is more or less ok. But I have not found any color theme in user settings.
Just to be sure - send me a screenshot, please.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/199PUThxDoGXSwrT9OA3Az3xTl8OAVLIz/view?usp=sharing
Link to Inara Discord: https://discord.gg/qfkFWTr