lbryio / lbryio/lbry-desktop

Add missing daemon (block heights) information to 'About' under the 'Help' page

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area: daemon area: ux needs: exploration needs: repro priority: low type: improvement
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JavaScript
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Description

## The Issue

Chain Local Height & Remote Height are not easily found.
Users must make a manual daemon call or scan logs to find what the daemon has as the user's current block.

### Suggested Solutions
Add current daemon block heights to the About section under the Help page.

## System Configuration

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start in the Help page's About section and trace how the existing application and daemon information is assembled. Use the daemon's current local and remote block heights as the target, and consider the issue complete when both values are visible there without requiring a manual daemon call or log scan.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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