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What exactly was a 'horrible experience' with the report you filed? Richard himself promptly replied in less than 24 hours that the issue was resolved and prev

What exactly was a 'horrible experience' with the report you filed? Richard himself promptly replied in less than 24 hours that the issue was resolved and previously seen by Firefox too. I am at a genuine loss, what was horrible here??

orf 4y ago
It was a while ago, but if I recall I ended up having to sign up several times, the post failed to be created for some reason and something else. There was a captcha involved I think. I don’t remember the specifics, but I do remember coming away from it with a feeling of “wow, that was an atrocious experience. I wonder what the drop off rate is”
- devwastaken 4y ago
  Sounds about right, most forum software is buggy and fails, but those failures don't get sent to the maintainers. It just waits until someone whom knows the maintainers says "uhhh it's broke.".
- zoomablemind 4y ago
  Perhaps a while ago... For quite some time SQLite official forum has been running its own version of Forum software (part of Fossil). It allows Anonymous login, with captcha (again, Fossil handles), yeah, but this is nothing unexpected. So in general, the path to Forum presence is fairly unimpeded, well, it is moderated. Reasonably stated issues seem to get attention. Though, some issues indeed need a push to be recognized as such, as it's a public forum, so other users may express their "other" opinions... All in all it's Freedom of Reasonable speech in action. I believe there's a different channel for reporting security-related issues. Again, it's through the Forum, but there's a private message feature for signed-in users.
- asah 4y ago
  in situations like this, I typically report bugs directly to members of the core team individually, with gory details, and explina that I tried the forum approach and it failed for me.
  - weird-eye-issue 4y ago
    I'm sure they love that

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What exactly was a 'horrible experience' with the report you filed? Richard himself promptly replied in less than 24 hours that the issue was resolved and prev

by qbasic_forever 4y ago

orf 4y ago
It was a while ago, but if I recall I ended up having to sign up several times, the post failed to be created for some reason and something else. There was a captcha involved I think. I don’t remember the specifics, but I do remember coming away from it with a feeling of “wow, that was an atrocious experience. I wonder what the drop off rate is”
- devwastaken 4y ago
  Sounds about right, most forum software is buggy and fails, but those failures don't get sent to the maintainers. It just waits until someone whom knows the maintainers says "uhhh it's broke.".
- zoomablemind 4y ago
  Perhaps a while ago... For quite some time SQLite official forum has been running its own version of Forum software (part of Fossil). It allows Anonymous login, with captcha (again, Fossil handles), yeah, but this is nothing unexpected. So in general, the path to Forum presence is fairly unimpeded, well, it is moderated. Reasonably stated issues seem to get attention. Though, some issues indeed need a push to be recognized as such, as it's a public forum, so other users may express their "other" opinions... All in all it's Freedom of Reasonable speech in action. I believe there's a different channel for reporting security-related issues. Again, it's through the Forum, but there's a private message feature for signed-in users.
- asah 4y ago
  in situations like this, I typically report bugs directly to members of the core team individually, with gory details, and explina that I tried the forum approach and it failed for me.
  - weird-eye-issue 4y ago
    I'm sure they love that