VSCode Removes Twitter Integration

Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by petee on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:20PM (#37374093)

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

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by CrzyLngPwd on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:31PM (#37374225)

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

IN what way is twitter unreliable for those tasks?

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by xulres on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:42AM (#37378471)

Because there is no twitter anymore.

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by petee on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:45PM (#37394406)

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.

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by catlover76 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:37PM (#37374286)

YouTube? To report issues?

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

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by SushiHippie on Sunday September 03, 2023 @09:39PM (#37376365)

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.

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by netsharc on Monday September 04, 2023 @02:23AM (#37377688)

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.

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by RealStickman_ on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:50AM (#37378166)

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

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by rewmie on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:51AM (#37378169)

> 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.

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by GranPC on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:00PM (#37374529)

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.

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by whoknowswhat11 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:34PM (#37376035)

What was the issue with twitter?

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by prepend on Sunday September 03, 2023 @07:00PM (#37375443)

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

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Re:VSCode Removes Twitter Integration by aendruk on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:55PM (#37376130)

Screenshot of the UI:

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

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