nextcloud / nextcloud/updater

Review clarity surrounding web UI "retry" versus refresh

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Description

This comes up often enough there is perhaps some room for improvement so that people know what to do:

E.g. https://help.nextcloud.com/t/updating-always-fails-during-the-backup-step/175806/11?u=jtr

  • Clarity of instructions in app
  • Clarity of Updater documentation
  • Anything else related to this

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked help.nextcloud.com report and the updater's web UI instructions for retry versus refresh. Then inspect the updater documentation and related in-app wording; done means the required action is unambiguous in both places and any other relevant guidance is identified.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation, frontend
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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