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Why did VSCode need Twitter intergration in the first place?

petee 3y ago
From the looks of the commit it was simply for reporting issues and feedback and is being swapped out for YouTube, likely since Twitter isn't reliable anymore
- CrzyLngPwd 3y ago
  How is youtube more reliable for reporting issues and giving feedback? IN what way is twitter unreliable for those tasks?
  - decremental 3y ago
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  - xulres 3y ago
    Because there is no twitter anymore.
  - petee 3y ago
    Because there is no guarantee that: A) Twitter will exist within a year B) Musk won't takeover or delete your account C) Twitter has been experiencing plenty of random downtime due "production experiments"/cost saving. I also don't think it is intended to be a replacement, looks more like for help and general outreach; I mistakenly described it as 'swapped out' which I think has created some confusion about using youtube as a bug tracker.
- catlover76 3y ago
  YouTube? To report issues? What's wrong with email or some GitHub bug tracker?
  - SushiHippie 3y ago
    You can see in the git diff, that they replaced the "Join us on Twitter" button with "Join us on youtube". They are removing the feedback option completely, but replaced some other mentions of twitter and this one was replaced by youtube but has nothing to do with the feedback option.
  - netsharc 3y ago
    It'd be hilarious if the "report to YouTube" does a screen-recording of how to reproduce the bug/what it looks like; hilarious because it would mean the VSCode team put in a video renderer in the thing.
    - RealStickman_ 3y ago
      Thst wouldn't be too hilarious actually. Browsers/Electron already support screen sharing so it shouldn't be too difficult to add in VSCode.
  - rewmie 3y ago
    > YouTube? To report issues? Screen recordings are a basic issue reporting technique, which objectively documents not only the issue but how to reproduce it. Email tends to have a low file size limit, and YouTube is designed explicitly to share video.
- GranPC 3y ago
  I haven't exhaustively checked the diff but it rather seems like the built-in report tool that used Twitter is now gone, and they just replaced some menu entries which used to point to their Twitter account to go to YouTube instead.
- whoknowswhat11 3y ago
  What was the issue with twitter?
prepend 3y ago
If you autotweet each commit, it really juices your repo star count.
aendruk 3y ago
Screenshot of the UI: “Tweet us your feedback” https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/188960#issue-1822934642 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/188960#issue-1822...

From the looks of the commit it was simply for reporting issues and feedback and is being swapped out for YouTube, likely since Twitter isn't reliable anymore

CrzyLngPwd 3y ago
How is youtube more reliable for reporting issues and giving feedback? IN what way is twitter unreliable for those tasks?
- decremental 3y ago
  [dead]
- xulres 3y ago
  Because there is no twitter anymore.
- petee 3y ago
  Because there is no guarantee that: A) Twitter will exist within a year B) Musk won't takeover or delete your account C) Twitter has been experiencing plenty of random downtime due "production experiments"/cost saving. I also don't think it is intended to be a replacement, looks more like for help and general outreach; I mistakenly described it as 'swapped out' which I think has created some confusion about using youtube as a bug tracker.
catlover76 3y ago
YouTube? To report issues? What's wrong with email or some GitHub bug tracker?
- SushiHippie 3y ago
  You can see in the git diff, that they replaced the "Join us on Twitter" button with "Join us on youtube". They are removing the feedback option completely, but replaced some other mentions of twitter and this one was replaced by youtube but has nothing to do with the feedback option.
- netsharc 3y ago
  It'd be hilarious if the "report to YouTube" does a screen-recording of how to reproduce the bug/what it looks like; hilarious because it would mean the VSCode team put in a video renderer in the thing.
  - RealStickman_ 3y ago
    Thst wouldn't be too hilarious actually. Browsers/Electron already support screen sharing so it shouldn't be too difficult to add in VSCode.
- rewmie 3y ago
  > YouTube? To report issues? Screen recordings are a basic issue reporting technique, which objectively documents not only the issue but how to reproduce it. Email tends to have a low file size limit, and YouTube is designed explicitly to share video.
GranPC 3y ago
I haven't exhaustively checked the diff but it rather seems like the built-in report tool that used Twitter is now gone, and they just replaced some menu entries which used to point to their Twitter account to go to YouTube instead.
whoknowswhat11 3y ago
What was the issue with twitter?

prepend 3y ago

If you autotweet each commit, it really juices your repo star count.

aendruk 3y ago

Screenshot of the UI: “Tweet us your feedback” https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/188960#issue-1822934642 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/188960#issue-1822...