In Mozilla Firefox, in Community Q&A, in the message that talks about unlocking staff answers at the top of the header, the text is breaking out of the header.
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You can ask for screenshots kindly, but I would prefer if you didn’t call my bug reports, “ low quality
”.
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I am not saying yours are low quality. I am just saying that I am tired of bug reports (mainly by users unaware of how to report a bug) that I cannot personally see so we as a community can diagnose the problem. That post is a little of a rant but it does raise valid concerns about bug reports IMHO.
Aasim, there isn’t always a need for screenshots or for the community to try and figure out what the issue is. Sometimes a description of the issue suffices (and depending on the bug, the community may not know what’s causing it). If staff can’t reproduce it, they’ll ask for more detail.
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I’m at the doctor’s right now, but I can take a screenshot when I get home. The other issue that I removed was caused by Firefox’s strict tracking protection that is enabled by default when using private browsing. The issue was reported to Mozzila.
Also, the what is my browser site does not work for Firefox, since the built-in tracking protection, which is enabled by default, changes the user agent header, which causes that site to report incorrect information, so details about Firefox needs to be posted manually.
Here is a screenshot of this issue. You can see the text, “Unlock staff-researched answers by supporting wikiHow” is breaking out of the header:
This is on the latest version of Mozilla Firefox (83.0) on Windows 10 20H2, which is the latest public release, non-insider, version.
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JayneG
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This is mysterious because it looks fine at 100% for me:
I can get it to break at higher zoom rates, like 150% or 170% depending on the size of the browser, but that wouldn’t likely be a high priority to work on.
If anyone else is seeing the issue on https://www.wikihow.com/Solve-a-Sudoku#qa_headline
at 100%, please let me know!
This is kind of off-topic but still useful feedback.
I can deal with ads. What I cannot deal with is when content is locked behind a paywall. Unfortunately, IMHO that detracts from wikiHow’s core mission. For the longest time ever, we have not put anything behind paywalls and have only relied on advertising to support the site. Having merch is another way to get support. But hiding information behind a paywall detracts from the goal of providing a free how-to site. I get that we need money to support the site. What does not make sense is having people pay to get CC BY-NC-SA content (unless if that staff content was never freely licensed to begin with). If you really want people to contribute more, a better alternative would be to have a donation banner on the front page in a similar manner WMF has done. At least worth experimenting with that.
