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Josh
Former Community Manager
January 21, 2021
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Support Forum Feedback/Bugs Thread

  • January 21, 2021
  • 65 replies
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Kicking off this thread to keep track of bugs, feedback, etc. related directly to this forum.

We’re quite proud of the work we’ve put into designing and building this forum out, however, there’s always room for improvement.

So… if you happen to find a bug or want to share some feedback, feel free to add a reply here and we’ll do our best to address it!

Here’s what we’ll be working on/improving next:

  • 🐛 Fixing some trailing bugs
  • 📄 Adding documentation, improving guidelines, etc.
  • 📱 Improving the mobile/responsive experience
  • 🔤 Improving the typography and accessibility across topics
  • ✨ Adding more categories and content
  • 🌑 Working on a dark theme
  • 🥇 Working on badges and rewards for participation

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    65 replies

    Gleb
    Power Member
    November 13, 2021

    A couple more issues:

    1. Some #feedback categories are missing the ability to mark answers as solutions, for example #plugin-api:feedback. Please check that all #feedback categories allow this.

    2. New people can’t post links, images or videos. This is understandable, but usually they come to the forum with a problem and can’t post anything. Can you allow images and videos (or at least images) for all people and whitelist figma.com links (and maybe some other domains) for new people?

    Gleb
    Power Member
    November 27, 2021

    This floating window is very broken for the past couple of days.

    Here is one more CSS weirdness example: Prototype is distorted/glitched in presentation mode

    thudson
    Figmate
    Support Engineer
    January 5, 2022

    These two should be fixed! Thanks for the heads-up and links – wound up being super helpful. 😃

    Gleb
    Power Member
    January 11, 2022

    Bumping this issue again, please look into allowing links and image attachments. People can’t even send links to the forum itself (Background music in yt ad? - #5 by Reed_Graf), that’s kind of ridiculous.

    When links and images were enabled, there wasn’t much spam on the forum and it was usually flagged pretty quickly, so I don’t see much damage in enabling links. Images are not as much of an issue anyway so there is no point in disallowing them. After a quick google it looks like there might be a native links whitelist feature or at least some plugins for that.

    The forum is barely alive anyway and these limits are damaging it in my view. What do you think? Maybe you need some help? @thudson @Josh

    Josh
    JoshAuthor
    Former Community Manager
    January 11, 2022

    Hey Gleb, thanks for reaching out. I just looked into this and I don’t think we have any restrictions or changed anything here.

    The minimum trust level to add a link to a topic or an image is set to 0:new user, so that shouldn’t be causing any issues there. I went through the rest of the settings as well I couldn’t find anything that may be causing this.

    Also not sure what the topic you’re linking to is showing. Did the user try linking to the YT video but wasn’t allowed?

    Let me know thanks.

    Gleb
    Power Member
    January 12, 2022

    They were trying post a link to the forum topic:

    Here are some more examples of people being unable to post links or screenshots:

    However I just found out that this doesn’t happen to all new people. Weird.

    Josh
    JoshAuthor
    Former Community Manager
    January 12, 2022

    I think these are just mistakes. The first one there’s a comma in the url.

    Josh
    JoshAuthor
    Former Community Manager
    January 12, 2022

    I’ll dig into the other one tomorrow though with internal links. That might be a bug or some other weird setting.

    Gleb
    Power Member
    January 12, 2022

    You can see in other threads people explicitly state they can’t add a link or an image. And I doubt anyone can replace a dot with a comma in a link accidentally, so this is probably done to prevent link detection as well. This is a fairly common occurrence on the forum. Here is another example:

    I also remember there was a thread where the person wasn’t able to add a link so someone had to tell them to add a space or something in the URL so its not considered a URL by the forum automatically. Can’t find it now.


    Found a bug. Not a critical issue but might be worth reporting to Discourse (if not already reported). The topic was closed automatically after 9 days like after 30 days, probably because the year changes are not considered in this calculation. Ability to move frames around Figma with the attached comments

    Gleb
    Power Member
    January 18, 2022

    Another piece of feedback: the topics in #product-feedback are closed automatically after 30 days. I don’t think this is a good mechanic as they don’t require a quick answer. This results in duplicates and inactivity in some topics. Moderators can close the outdated topics manually. There is no expiration date to feedback until it’s implemented or fixed in a different way. @Josh