Improve UI/UX for trait implementors async loading
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Description
In https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/142380, we made changes that made negative trait implementors to be listed first, which means that async implementors can appear while the user is looking at this list, making the UX not great. To solve this, we decided to hide all implementors and only make them appear once the async loading is done, which also can be surprising.
So this issue mostly serves as a place where to debate how we could do this better.
cc @rust-lang/rustdoc-frontend
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading rust-lang/rust pull request 142380 and the rustdoc-frontend context mentioned in the issue to understand how negative and async implementors are currently displayed. The issue is primarily a discussion of better loading UX, so a concrete solution and definition of done still need to be established.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100