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The Bug Catchers Net: Q4 2023

Hello Meta!

We really appreciate you sharing bugs (big and small) so we can keep our site running smoothly. Here's our new folder!

For an inside peak on how we do things, as sometimes it may seem like nothing happens with these, this is what we do with your bugs:

  1. I write up your bug in a report for our QA and Developer teams.
  2. QA works their magic to replicate the bug. If we can't make it happen again, we can't figure out how it went wrong.
  3. Once we know exactly what's wrong, QA sends the bug report to our developers where it gets ranked against all the work the developers do (which is a lot). Bugs that are annoying but not preventing the site from working will rank lower than something that prevents users from doing stuff. They also go up against long term projects, improvements, and general maintenance.
  4. Sometimes, if a bug isn't such a big deal and we have a project coming up that will have the developers poking around in the same pile of code, we'll set it aside for when that time comes.

Remember, share as much detail as you have about the bug (the more we know, the faster we can fix it):

  • Where you saw it (URL's are great!)
  • What you were trying to do and what happened instead.
  • Screenshots if you’ve got ‘em!

As always, thank you for your dedication to our site!

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https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+rebo...

This guide still shows the notice for changes made, even though the most recent changes are already patrolled.

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Looking into this with the developers. Thanks!

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I was going to edit an old guide of mine, set it to private, and found a bug with the teams list.

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Hi @guardian10, this one looks like those were the teams you were a member of when you made the guide.

Our site won't remove them automatically when you leave the team, but you can still manually remove their access using the "x" so they can't access your private guide.

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@amber Alright, thanks for the clarification.

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I changed my display name and now I can't change it back, though it tells me that it updated my profile when I press on the savebutton.

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What are you trying to save it back to? I'm wondering if it's a caching problem so maybe it'll work now.

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I changed my display name, but it didn't update on meta as well.

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They're technically separate sites so you'll need to do it manually. Sorry for the hassle!

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@amber I don‘t think I can actually change my User Name or Display Name on Meta, no? At least I don‘t see the option in the edit Profile page.

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Are votes supposed to be able to go negative?

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