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Example of extreme dev incompetence

Post by Bbb23sucks » Thu Jan 12, 2023 6:11 am

In the MediaWiki edit tab, there is replace feature that allows you to replace snippets of text. There is also an option to use a "regular expression" - a simple pattern that can recognize text in a more advanced way (i.e replace any character or digit, any number of character, reformatting text, etc.) In the regular expression, you can match a newline with '\n' (this is standard in nearly all programming languages), but one user noticed that while you could find a new line, you cannot have one in the replace field. This is a pretty essential feature as any text containing new lines will need this, so after reporting this to mediawiki.org, a user then reported it to Phabricator. As you can, this is a very simple feature, it could probably be implemented in one line of code, and yet, it is still under discussion EIGHT YEARS after the first report and 1.5 years since the Phabricator report. The WMF makes $160,000,000 a YEAR and they still can't develop a (literal) single line of code in eight years.

There's a lot of gold like this on Phabricator

Makes sense when they have expert devs like this that have advanced technical knowledge from "MoegirlPedia".
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