I've noticed that you guys are uncovering a lot of actual bugs in Discourse.
These are, in many cases, totally legit bugs that we need to fix. For example, a few I confirmed just tonight:
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failure to show proper visible post count in progress bar after posting (deleted posts affect count)
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entering a topic via suggested topics and the /last
url means the address bar never updates properly
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style errors on /categories
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failure to show the topic progress bar when the editor is visible
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failure to track topics when the category state is set to "tracked"
I apologize, but we've been moving really fast on Discourse:
- attempting to build new features
- while servicing existing customers (yep, people pay money for this, well Alex doesn't, but ~50 companies do at the time of writing) and responding to their requests
- while also dealing with gratis open source support ala this forum
.. which means sometimes things fall in the cracks, and we don't fix (or find) bugs we should.
I'm sorry about that.
So, we're going to pause feature work next week, and just focus on fixing bugs.
Some of the bugs may require some feature work – for example better post read tracking indicators – but we'll try to narrow down as much as we can on bugs and problems and fixes.
I'll try to clean up a lot of the bullshit in the ostensible "bugs" topic, and I will split out feature requests to a new topic.
Just so we're clear: bugs are things that are actually broken as designed, not "did not work as I would prefer it to" or "It really ought to work this other way" or "it could be better if you did X".
It is completely fair to question aspects of the design, but that sort of thing should go in a separate dedicated topic.