Shock and surprise: new feature fails the most basic use cases (Replies)
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The "yo dawg there be replies" indicator shows there's a reply, and shows the mini-avatar of the last replier. I expand it. Then reply to the post.
The replies stupid thing now shows 2 replies. Okay, good, cool. But the mini-avatar is not me. And it isn't the first replier. In fact, it isn't the avatar of ANYONE invovled in the chain.
Good jorb.
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Replying to a message with no replies-- the reply indicator shows, but no mini-avatar:
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@Lorne-Kates that's with a dumb on top.
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@anotherusername when a reply streams in, the shows up on the avatar, for some reason.
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@anotherusername unless it's the first reply, in which case nothing shows up at all.
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@anotherusername But what if someone different replies, does it get fixed then?
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@anotherusername and by "first reply", I mean "any reply that should add a reply button when there isn't one yet". So if the first reply streams in, it doesn't add anything. If the second reply also streams in, and there isn't any "replies" button yet because the first reply didn't add one when it streamed in, it still doesn't add anything. If any more replies stream in, when there isn't a "replies" button yet, it doesn't add anything.
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@anotherusername said in Shock and surprise: new feature fails the most basic use cases (Replies):
@Lorne-Kates that's with a dumb on top.
And a grey shader.
WHY???!?!??!
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@Lorne-Kates don't you mean, why isn't it with or without a anywhere?
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@anotherusername said in Shock and surprise: new feature fails the most basic use cases (Replies):
@Lorne-Kates don't you mean, why isn't it with or without a anywhere?
I revise my question to be: "WHY IS IT AT ALL?"
Fuck this feature.
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@Lorne-Kates based on The Official Replies Topic, it looks like it's only supposed to show the first 5 avatars and the is supposed to show up on the 5th user's avatar when more than 5 people have replied. But when new replies stream in, it always shows up (except when it doesn't because the "replies" button wasn't visible before because there were 0 replies, and still isn't visible afterward even though it should be).
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@anotherusername said in Shock and surprise: new feature fails the most basic use cases (Replies):
@Lorne-Kates based on The Official Replies Topic, it looks like it's only supposed to show the first 5 avatars and the is supposed to show up on the 5th user's avatar when more than 5 people have replied. But when new replies stream in, it always shows up (except when it doesn't because the "replies" button wasn't visible before because there were 0 replies, and still isn't visible afterward even though it should be).
... so our Dev team has taken up the "Itshud" method of release.
That's when you ask a developer "Does this do what it's supposed to, have you tested it, and does it work?"
If the answer is a meek and slurred together "it should"-- then the answer is basically no.
In Open Source, that means "go ahead and release it I guess".