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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'?
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 42.8 ms ] threadIN what way is twitter unreliable for those tasks?
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.
What's wrong with email or some GitHub bug tracker?
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.
“Tweet us your feedback” https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/188960#issue-1822...
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.
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.
I assume the lack of remaining software engineers probably has something to do with it.
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.
It just seems like good business sense to me.