Coretime page is very confusing

[xlc]

What does 347/5040 mean? Is it number of blocks? Timeslice? What even is a timeslice? (I know what is a timeslice but don't expect every parachain devs know about it)

Staking page for example, is display actual time

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This is table is also very confusing.

What does last block mean? What does end mean? What does renewal mean?
Why some chain have eligible for renewal and some have renewed and some have - for it? So Karura is ineligible for renewal or renewal is not applicable???

It appears this is ordered by core number? That's a very bad order. No one is going to lookup chain by core number.

I have renewed Karura for another 4 weeks yet it still displays end with 1 Mar 2025. Did my renew successful? Do I need to do anything else? Or the end is not the end I was thinking?

[TarikGul]

cc: @piggydoughnut

[piggydoughnut]

Hi there @xlc !

Thanks a lot for your feedback :) It is really valuable as that is how we get to improve the Dashboard and make it user friendly.

Cycle progress

What does 347/5040 mean? Is it number of blocks? Timeslice? What even is a timeslice? (I know what is a timeslice but don't expect every parachain devs know about it)

The cycle progress is indeed in timeslices, which I agree are pretty confusing.

Last block, end, renewal

What does last block mean? What does end mean? What does renewal mean?

Last Block is the last block on the realy chain for your parachain. That is more precise than date so I advice you reference that.
End should probably be end date and that is the date when your parachain will stop producing blocks (it is not exact at this moment as I am not taking time into account but I am planning to introduce that soon)
Renewal - that is potentialRenewals, so these are parachains that can renew their core.

Renewal Eligibility

Why some chain have eligible for renewal and some have renewed and some have - for it? So Karura is ineligible for renewal or renewal is not applicable???

Good point. Renewal is not very clear here. Currently the ones that have eligible in the list are the ones that can renew. There are varios reasons for parachains not being able to renew. I will put it down in todo and think of how showing this information can be improved.

Sorting, filtering

It appears this is ordered by core number? That's a very bad order. No one is going to lookup chain by core number.

Thanks for noting that. There is a Pull Request in review right now that will introduce filtering, sort and search. Feel free to check it out and/or suggest other features that you would like to see.

Karura renewal

I have renewed Karura for another 4 weeks yet it still displays end with 1 Mar 2025. Did my renew successful? Do I need to do anything else? Or the end is not the end I was thinking?

I am not sure why you do not see "renewed" next to your chain as I can see you in the workplan for core 13 for the next cycle. You can go to Coretime chain -> Network -> Coretime Broker -> filter by core 13 and you should see you in the workplan for that core.
Noting this down as a bug. Thanks for reporting.

Improvements

Relay Chain

• Better handle showing renewals -> Next cycle on core X
• End -> end date
• Add tooltip to explain some terms?
• Cycle progress - add human readable time there so it makes more sense.
• Add time to end date, for precision + do not use timeslices but the latest block for precision too
• 🐛 Karura (2000) renewed but does not see "renewed" in the table
• Add a link to regionX for renewal

Coretime Chain

• when filtering by parahchain id, also filter in the workplan. Then people can see where will their parachain migrate after extension.
• issue with dates on workload and workplan - start/end dates

[piggydoughnut]

Pushed a fix for incorrectly showing whether the chain was renewed or not

[xlc]

this doesn't appear to be right? the start / end date for the current, and next are the same?

[piggydoughnut]

@xlc yes, that is wrong, I noted it in the todo list above as issue with dates on workload and workplan. Thanks for flagging it.

[xlc]

every non system chains are expires soon? I don't think this is right?

[piggydoughnut]

@xlc pushed a quick fix for that.

I want to add a renewal button for the chains that are eligible, which will take them to their renewal page on RegionX, e.g. https://app.regionx.tech/renew?network=kusama&paraId=2000&core=15

Also making final adjustments to the #11304 which will be available for review soon. It addresses a lot of issue mentioned above.