We kept the categories separate in the past so that if the bug report wizard ever breaks, there’s still a way to send us messages through those categories. This allowed us to notice a few issues about the bug report wizard in the past where certain users couldn’t report bugs for a while (like here recently).
Additionally since the team working on the bug report workflow itself and the team working on devforum are naturally more active on the forum, it was feasible for us to have those categories open to all, also they saw a lower volume because it was a bit harder to find than #bug-reports.
We have a few projects left earlier in the year to refine the bug reporting workflow further and add more alerting and other safeguards against breakage, and once those are finished, we can likely transition away from those categories and fold them back into the wizard. Thanks for your question on this!
Sorry, but I’m a little confused. Does this mean that Regular will be called something else now? I really do hope so, since I’ve always thought the name was ssuper misleading.
This is really helpful. This will help me, as I have not created any topics yet, and therefore I will now have a section I may start posting a lot of topics in and reporting bugs (if they don’t already exist yet).
Is it normal for the request message to disappear after sending? I saw the DM dialog for when I filled in the request body, but there’s no history in my messages anywhere.
@pyxfluff mentioned that the DevForums uses an stable version of Discourse and the person who you replied to mentioned that they don’t update the base discourse version compared to the plugins
I really appreciate the update, My bug report on my other account @VSCPlays was randomly approved out of nowhere an hour before this topic was made, I might return to the @VSCPlays account and use that with the @AllowBugReports account and just use it for bug reports
I’m curious. Will this be rolled out for people with member status? As it stands, only regular users and higher can access the bug reporting wizard. Also, will there be a similar tool for feature requests?
Does this part relate to ranking up from Member to Regular? Because I’ve been wondering if it was just put on halt or if the requirements are just very abstract since me having 1.9K days of memberships, over 1.8K post likes, 11D read time, etc. hasn’t qualified me for any increase in trust level. Had to make bug reports in the past by directly contacting developer relations which was a pain to say the least.