Missing histogram data for Nov 15, 2010 about httparchive.org HOT 8 OPEN

as a general rule, I suppose, if error could be precalculated\predicted, it's better to notify user beforehand

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sure, will try to do that tomorrow

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The ranking lenses (top 1000, 10000… 1 million) were only added from May 2021 so didn’t exist for 2010.

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One could argue that we shouldn't show start/end options for dates that we know are not supported by the lens. For example, some metrics provide a min/max date when we know about its availability window. Perhaps we should do the same for lenses.

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Potentially, but can also result in fighting the GUI and confusing users.

For example I'm in 10k lens (only available for 2022). I want as much WordPress data as possible. If the date was filtered, I might not realise there is a lot more than for 10k, and at the very least there's two steps.

So both ways have their downfalls.

Maybe a better option would potentially be to leave the date pickers alone, but use an error message (where it's less obvious what the limits are than for the timeseries):

"Error: Histograms for 10k are only available from April 2022"

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Reopening so we can continue thinking through our options

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would it be possible to change it from dropdown to choicefiled?

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@alex-bender any interest in drafting that in a pull request?

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