This is a testing thread to try attaching crash report that was unable to be attached few days earlier when I tried to create a new thread. This test is requested by Apple DTS to help isolating the issue.
For more context: https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/747480
Crash report:
crash-log-iOS-17.crash
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It looks like these new forums are based on the new Apple Support Communities code. I frequently post on ASC so I know what does and does not work there. I will focus on features that need to be imported from ASC and features that don't.
Email notifications - Some people really like to work from e-mail notifications. ASC has notifications for participation, following, points, etc. Just make sure they always default to "OFF".
Subscriptions - ASC already has this and is (in my opinion) the ideal way to find and respond to questions. Essentially, this is just searching on multiple tags. The subscriptions is an interface to let me define what tags I want to search for by default.
Sorting - Primarily, we need to see messages sorted by descending timestamp.
Sorting - I would like to be able to sort by both created or updated timestamps. Sometimes I want to see bona fide new messages.
Searching - This is ASC's big weak spot. Search is virtually useless on ASC. You have to really tweak the "filters" to get anything useful out of it. Re-do this and then back-port it to ASC please.
Threads - Thread view is all messed up. This thread (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/134075) is a good example. It seems to be organized hierarchically, with new replies to individual posts appearing immediately after the post being replied to. This is really confusing. Just order it by timestamp.
ASC has a feature to automatically guess the target forum (tag in these forums) from the content of the question being asked. That would be useful here. Otherwise, you risk everything going into "iOS".
Provide an easy way to see my own posts to see if anything has been updated. ASC doesn't really offer this. I have found a custom filter query that I use to simulate the "Inbox" of an old version of ASC. None of those custom filters seem to work over here. This is another opportunity to fix and then port back to ASC.
Filtering - ASC has a complicated system of filtering. Please don't import that.
10. Subscriptions - If you do implement a subscriptions system like ASC, pay attention to unpopular forums. Otherwise, new question in popular forums will drown out questions in more specific forums. The "Top Tags" list has already started that. Of course "iOS" and "macOS" will be most popular. But if everybody uses only those tags, they become useless.
Specialties - This is part of ASC gamification system. I don't necessarily mind them, but they aren't implemented very well on ASC. One has to perform specific actions, such as asking a question, to start earning a speciality. What about people who don't ask questions? How do you handle people with multiple specialties? ASC seems to pick one at random and display it, which is very annoying.
Guidelines - I think the Terms of Use need to be expanded and be crystal clear about what is allowed and not. I've just seen my first help wanted ad here. Is that allowed? I don't know.
Other comments:
Very nice use of Markdown in the editor. This is probably not something that could be ported back to ASC. Developers should be able to handle it though.
I like the documentation links at the top of tag results pages.
I receive "This post contains sensitive language. Please revise it in order to continue." error, although I just list my failing notarization requests
I've noticed there is a new 'Same Here' button showing on any post (except your own posts).
I first thought it was a link to a similar question… Specially when the button just says 'Same here' without any badge value. But no, it is just similar to a like…
I guess the goal is to avoid and speed up instead of posting a reply or a comment 'Same here'.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to undo and no way to know who posted.
As your own posts do not show the button, does it mean you cannot know how many share the same issue than the one you posted ? If so, that's bizarre. Hope it will show the counter at least when it is non zero.
Let me see how many 'Same here' on this post…
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Hi,
How to delete a post from Apple Developer Forum ?
Kindest Regards
Hello,
I need a moderator to delete or edit my reply on forum post which contains some personal identifying information.
Forum Post: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/743497?login=true&page=1#775836022
Thanks.
I replied to this thread a couple of hours ago, but the recent post list, sorted by Last Update, does not show it, and my watch list shows an update date based on a previous reply.
Hello,
I need a moderator to delete or edit my forum post which contains some personal identifying information.
Forum Post:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/742972
Thanks.
How to remove answered mark
Anyone know how to include sample code or screenshots because the very basic form to submit one most definitely does not have the option to do so.
Submitted a TSI 4 days ago. Heard nothing back. Status Used. Surely a TSI is a fulfilled request and not just ignored?
Also the forum tags don't have TSI so not sure where this post will end up
Don’t know when this started, but I just found that I’m unable to downvote any posts, and the button for reporting abuse/spam/etc. is missing. If I hover over the downvote button, a popup says "Only forum users with 100 or more reputation points can downvote posts and replies.” I do have way more than 100 points.
Is there a way I can delete my own question/post from the Apple Developer Forum?
DevForums has the concept of public and private tags:
Public tags are available to everyone, per the rules outlined in Developer > Support > Developer Forums.
Private tags are limited to a specific set of developers.
The canonical example of a private tag is Universal App Quick Start, which is only available to folks who had an Apple silicon DTK.
If you have access to any private tags, the New Post form has an extra field, Post Visibility. Its default value is Private but you can switch it to Public. The Tags field adjusts accordingly. So, if you select Private you only see a limited set of private tags. Use these if your post is about one of those private topics. OTOH, if your post is about a public topic, change Post Visibility to Public and apply the appropriate public tags.
Share and Enjoy
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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"
I notice that several (most) tags are not accessible now (Nov 2, 19:30 GMT). For instance
https://developer.apple.com/forums/tags/ios
https://developer.apple.com/forums/tags/uikit
https://developer.apple.com/forums/tags/macos
https://developer.apple.com/forums/tags/appkit
https://developer.apple.com/forums/tags/xcode
https://developer.apple.com/forums/tags/interface-builder
all with the same error: The page you’re looking for can’t be found
But others are:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/
https://developer.apple.com/forums/tags/swift
Is it only me ?
cant see where to delete posts
Since a few days, I do not receive any mail notification on answers to mail. Is it only me ?
i can't add png image file (2.4M)
i don't know the reason of problem.
what is the standard of edit condition ?
sometime, i can edit, but sometime i can't edit ?
Since the maintenance 2 days ago, it seems editor has issues. Is it only me ?
Marking a text as quote does nothing. I mark this sentence as Quote to illustrate.
Is there a nice way to view all top-level threads by Apple staff (e.g. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/737894)? I know that the DevRel staff (especially Quinn) have written lots of useful guides and explanations, and while it's of course possible to search for something if you know it exists, it'd be quite useful if there was a way to just see everything.