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Comment by supermatt

1 day ago

At the time i wasn't sure if it was PEBCAK, which is why i started a discussion in the forums. As there were no replies, i received no notifications, and so I forgot all about it.

If anyone is interested in opening a bug report you can see the issue here: https://imgur.com/a/hZ1ja9o

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ogrisel  1 day ago

Personally, I do not understand why you think there is a bug from this screen capture alone. Maybe because I am that familiar with penpot and figma, but still, I do not find it obvious.

This is why it's important to describe explicitly the three points in text:

- steps to reproduce;

- what you expected to happen;

- what actual result you observe instead.

Something that might be obvious to you but isn't for others will just be silently ignored most of the time.

EDIT: I now see the problem after reading your other reply above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064757#46069546

This is why it's important to describe explicitly the difference between what you expected and what you observed. I swear I did not see the change in button width before reading the linked comment.

  • supermatt  1 day ago

    > This is why it's important to describe explicitly

    That is a fair point. I will take it on board when giving people screenshots and videos of bugs in future.

    > I did not see the change in button width

    There's actually a lot more visual changes than that just the button, but I will leave that to the reader as an exercise in spot-the-difference ;)

    • pixelatedindex  1 day ago

      > There's actually a lot more visual changes than that just the button, but I will leave that to the reader as an exercise in spot-the-difference ;)

      This is fair. But issues like this will never get my attention in general because I don’t have time to do this exercise - I would much rather have it all spelled out. Even if there are a bunch of related issues they won’t get fixed in a single PR, it likely will be multiple.

      I guess my point is that if you really want OSS projects to improve, the issue submitter can’t just ask the maintainer “figure it out”. It totally works this way in the corporate world though (IME).

      Edit: I’m sorry to have jumped to conclusions. Leaving my comment up for accountability.

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  • pixelatedindex  1 day ago

    > I swear I did not see the change in button width before reading the linked comment.

    I didn’t either! I stared at that gif for a few minutes and I couldn’t tell what the problem is (or what to look for). It wasn’t until you said “changing button width” I knew where to focus my attention.