(Out of Topic) Do we need a change in "Post new message

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(Out of Topic) Do we need a change in "Post new message

Post by *wanderer »

A question mainly for Christian and/or the moderators:

Would it help if the "Post New Message" form had some extra fields that would help in bug reporting, or if a "Post New Possible Bug" button existed?

Explanation:
I've noticed that almost everybody tend to ommit technical information that may be useful when reporting a bug, i.e. the O/S, how old the PC is, its memory, the resolution/colors of the screen etc. A new form could have (optional) fields like the ones described above which could be helpful for Christian (and other users) in order to provide an answer to a question or to better understand a possible bug?

What do you think?

Note: You may also want to make the Title field of a new post larger. IMO, the character limit of the Title field is a little small if you want to have trully descriptive titles. :) 55 chars only? How about 100?
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

Hmm, I don't think that this is neccessary, a bug may depend on many things like operating system, virus scanners, server types etc etc. It is probably better to ask a user for this specific information after he has described his bug.

The title field limitation is a limitation of the field length in the database to keep the database at a reasonable size...
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