Custom block explorer

[mariodian]

I think users should have an option of opening onchain transactions in their own block explorers.

There are so many opensource explorers available these days which you can run on your server that people should avoid 3rd party ones.

[ottosuess]

that's not an easy problem because all block explorers have a different api.
how would the UX of this feature look like?

[mariodian]

Trezor web lets you add any explorer and if it follows the following scheme then it works, if it doesn't well then it doesn't:

/tx/:id
/block/:hash
/address/:address

To at least partially prevent user from adding bogus explorers, you could check in the background whether the above returns HTTP 200. If not, the explorer won't be added to the list.

I would say regular users will be perfectly happy with blockstream and power users will understand that the explorer of their choice should follow the above schema.