Reason:: TL:DR: Topic Duplication, ease of awareness (for lack of a better word) for both RemNote team and users.
Why?
- Sometimes the same bugs and features are pointed out/suggested over and over and it will get hard to navigate the two forums as the App grows.
- Sometimes we do ignore a topic even if it is above the fold or latest one made in a category by not checking, not noticing or when one’s new idea/bug seems different from what’s already posted.
- RemNote expands, those kinds of topics should help both the RemNote team and the users needing or offering help. Obviously, duplicate topics won’t disappear, but they should hopefully lessen.
- For Features, you can list only the popular ones, to cut down on time fiddling with them as well. More obscure requests can be found, but f you really want a complete list, go for it.
Proposed Action:: TL:DR: Pinned and locked topic listing current bugs/popular features in each category and their links. (Or make a public Trello-like board, that also works).
I propose a Pinned, locked (so only mods/designated people can edit) topic is made in each of those two categories, one as Currently Known Bugs List and one as Widely Requested Features (or whatever better name in that vein you can find).
How the topics would be structured:
- Inside each of those two topics, a concisely named link to the users’ topics (for bugs: + link to the submitted GitHub bug report, when one appears) will reside in a somewhat alphabetical list.
- Nested below the main link will be links to similar/same idea/issue topics if they cannot be merged into the main one. There is little point in alphabetising those (unless the list is huge and A-Z-ing it can be done easily).
- The topic’s link name renamed for clarity (eg.: “I noticed something strange yesterday while drunk” to “Interface: Missing Header Button”).
- No promise that they will be added disclaimer for Feature Requests.
- Both topics will urge users to search for a suggested feature/bug first before a new topic is created and to contribute to bug report reproducibility/vote on desired features (sometimes searching will fail despite trying due to huge results numbers/unintuitive past naming of the current issue/feature).
- If a bug if known/only reported on Github a link is posted (discussion topics can be added in if there is a need).
- Would be nice if you can give some nod whether a request is viable at some point/will be implemented shortly to create hype but there’s a reason why that’s avoided as well.
- The Bug report topic will also contain the bug template from GitHub and instructions on how to submit one (link a short tutorial). Bug topics can also get a GitHub Tracker Report/known tag added by user or mod whenever it happens.
- For bugs you can also make one is currently known to only be affecting one thing (e.g.: Google, Desktop App, Android 9), in case it occurs in other places for others as well.
- Solved Bugs and Implemented Features can live in the folder for 1 month more or so to spread the word about the status.
You can also pin a select number of topics alongside if the bugs are incredibly nasty and widespread or a heavily requested feature just got implemented (tag it like so).
Quick and dirty unformatted examples:
Requested Features Topic:
No promise that they will be added disclaimer here. Then the popular features being requested list:
- Aliases:
Add hover preview (link).
Make them shiney (link). Related: Make them fly to the moon(link). - Interface:
Add font choice (link),
Add more official themes(link)
Fix Dark Mode(link).
Known Bugs Topic:
How to submit (a how to GitHub video/article link will be useful for some), link to reporting template. Then the current Bug Reports list:
- Imagine Occlusion: Editing not allowed (link). Not displaying on Desktop App(link to topic + github), related: A green imagine file icon is shown instead (link).
- PDF: Cannot rename(links). Cannot upload(links).
- PDF Highlight: X, Y, Z and their links.
- PDF Pins: A, B, C and their links.
On the same vein a mega FAQ pulled once in a while from the Forum, Discord, Reddit & other sources can live/be linked to in Community QA for easy referencing.
A locked topic and minimal number of editors would work better than users running wild with it. Assign 1-2 specific mods (preferably on different time zones if there’s more than one) to monitor and add to the pinned list topic in a category.
Excuse any typing errors, this turned into a wall of text.