UX improvement request: admin graphs vs user graphs

awesomerobot · January 22, 2026, 8:37pm

Seems like a good idea to me, also not too complicated of a change! Working on it here:

github.com/discourse/discourse

UX: distinguish incomplete period in admin charts

main ← ux-admin-incomplete-chart

merged 06:56PM - 26 Jan 26 UTC

awesomerobot

+156 -3

Nice suggestion here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/ux-improvement-request-admin-…graphs-vs-user-graphs/394108 When a chart has incomplete data for the current period (day, week, month) this will make the line dotted and the color grey (using default color variables). This makes it more obvious that it's incomplete data and not some alarming change. I've also included `(so far)` within the tooltip. Before: daily <img width="350" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2da7b77f-7a39-44e7-94d2-084ba78993a5" /> weekly <img width="800" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d748bf97-fe6c-4a4c-ada2-415b3897cbe1" /> After: daily <img width="350" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/10e44b9d-e259-409e-a00c-9dc305969161" /> weekly <img width="800" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cf6a63a9-63c2-484a-954f-1653323accf5" /> We don't seem to have a great way to test how these charts render, so I've added some to check for the incomplete data periods.

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UX improvement request: admin graphs vs user graphs

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