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VSCode Removes Twitter Integration

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Why did VSCode need Twitter intergration in the first place?

From the looks of the commit it was simply for reporting issues and feedback and is being swapped out for YouTube, likely since Twitter isn't reliable anymore

How is youtube more reliable for reporting issues and giving feedback?

IN what way is twitter unreliable for those tasks?

Because there is no twitter anymore.

Because there is no guarantee that: A) Twitter will exist within a year B) Musk won't takeover or delete your account C) Twitter has been experiencing plenty of random downtime due "production experiments"/cost saving.

I also don't think it is intended to be a replacement, looks more like for help and general outreach; I mistakenly described it as 'swapped out' which I think has created some confusion about using youtube as a bug tracker.

YouTube? To report issues?

What's wrong with email or some GitHub bug tracker?

You can see in the git diff, that they replaced the "Join us on Twitter" button with "Join us on youtube". They are removing the feedback option completely, but replaced some other mentions of twitter and this one was replaced by youtube but has nothing to do with the feedback option.

It'd be hilarious if the "report to YouTube" does a screen-recording of how to reproduce the bug/what it looks like; hilarious because it would mean the VSCode team put in a video renderer in the thing.

Thst wouldn't be too hilarious actually. Browsers/Electron already support screen sharing so it shouldn't be too difficult to add in VSCode.

> YouTube? To report issues?

Screen recordings are a basic issue reporting technique, which objectively documents not only the issue but how to reproduce it.

Email tends to have a low file size limit, and YouTube is designed explicitly to share video.

I haven't exhaustively checked the diff but it rather seems like the built-in report tool that used Twitter is now gone, and they just replaced some menu entries which used to point to their Twitter account to go to YouTube instead.

What was the issue with twitter?

If you autotweet each commit, it really juices your repo star count.

Screenshot of the UI:

“Tweet us your feedback” https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/188960#issue-1822...

And nothing of value was lost.

I'd argue value was added by removing an integration to an unreliable platform

How is twitter unreliable?

It's perfectly reliable people are just projecting

Anecdotally, about ~20% of the time I attempt to load Twitter on mobile - none of the user-posted images will load.

It's an absolute headache - and there doesn't appear to be a user-side explanation for it.

There's definitely things breaking in new and exciting ways.

It's kind of unfortunate that Twitter has become so politicized that people will downvote you for pointing out that Twitter has bugs.

I suppose if it agrees with one's politics, it therefore cannot possibly have bugs, and if anyone reports a bug, that person is obviously just faking it for political points.

twitter has always had bugs, no one thinks it doesn't have bugs... not sure what you're talking about

Have you used Twitter lately? About 25% of the time I open it, random content fails to load and I have to refresh the page.

I assume the lack of remaining software engineers probably has something to do with it.

Haven't experienced that once. Always seems fine to me.

Have you seen how they've treated developers over the past year?

> How is twitter unreliable?

For starters, Elon Musk's Twitter jacked up prices for API access out of the blue.

There are not many companies that want to pay half a million dollars a year to get bug reports.

As far as I know you don't need to pay half a million dollars to read your mentions.

All we know about this change is a few words in the bug summary and some in the commit summary, both defining the “what”; but not necessarily the “why”. Or am I missing something? I have my guesses, of course. If I were to review this code, this would’ve been my first comment on the patch, I guess.

I didnt even know VSCode had this feature. I wonder how many people are affected by this

At least the product owner, project manager, designer and developer.

Well that was completely political...

A financially sound company not wanting to deal with a loser company that went from spiraling down the toilet to just bum-rushing the drain is 'political'?

It just seems like good business sense to me.

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