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Insert A Section In The Community To Report Bugs

There appears to be a lot of bugs that happen in the Weebly site editor, and emailing back and forth to your customer support can be a pesky job task, especially that it takes 1 to 2 days for the support to respond. So try to add a seperate section in the weebly community only to report bugs and malfunctions, so that everybody can share what is not working well. Vote if you want to see this feature!

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Hello!

All pesky bugs that you come across should be reported to our support team, via a ticket. The reason is because in order for a bug to be escalated to our developers. It must be done so via the original ticket sent in by the customer reporting the problem. It then goes to our escalation team who tests the problem in order to recreate. Once a recreation is able to be done the escalation team member will create a ticket in our bug ticketing system that is then attached to the original ticket. This then goes to our development or engineering team


With that being said, bugs cannot be submitted for testing and escalation, by posting them to the community. Simply because it may not actually be a bug, but an issue that is being caused by something completely different. All submissions via our ticketing system must be tested and recreated before it can be considered a bug. That means a lot of testing between us and the customer directly as well. Which isn't possible on a discussion board.


I hope that explains how our bug system works. In that, it's not possible to submit bugs in the manner as you have suggested. We are very sorry. It would be cool if you could, though. We do agree with that.

Please submit your bug or any other issue to our team here: https://weebly.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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We really need a Bugs section here in the forums. I have reported many bugs via support tickets and received responses like "Sorry our interface doesn't work like that." "We don't have any plans to update this feature." or "submit your idea to vote on features"  Reporting a bug that needs fixing shouldn't be something considered an "idea". A Bugs section is part of any major forum for good reason. Community input.   

Other community members can help someone figure out a possible workaround if weebly isn't planning on issuing an immediate fix and share info about similar experiences they have encountered to determine whether or not it is an isolated issue.

If multiple members have experienced the same thing, Weebly and the community will be able to see and then Weebly can fix it. Why not have a bugs section with an upvote feature similar to new ideas? If a bug generates over a certain number of upvotes then weebly will know it is something many people in the community are experiencing.

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Hello, Creature! (love that username)

If you are having trouble with something, you are more than welcome to post it in the community. That is what we are here for. However, reporting something as a bug isn't feasible. Simply because, as stated in my previous reply. Submitting something as a bug doesn't necessarily make it a bug. Which of course can confuse people who may be reading the post. Even if a number of customers are experiencing the same problem. It doesn't mean there is a bug that is causing it. It could be internet backbone problem, network issue, registrar issue, a popular widget that isn't functioning, etc.... There are simply too many variables that go into a problem to actually be able to call it a bug, in the Weebly system and not something outside of Weebly.


We want your input and we want ideas. Never stop posting those. That is what this community is here for. But if there is something that actually requires testing, escalation and investigating via our developers or engineers. This all must be done by submitting a ticket to our support team. I cannot be handled on the community.

If you do let us know about an issue you're having. We can review it and then refer you to our support team for further investigation.

What about if you do submit a ticket to support and don't get the answer you think you should have?
Then please by all means let us know. We don't mind that one bit. We consider everyone in our community family. Just as you would your own family. We want to help each other's day go smoother.

However, note that our support team should be aware of any ongoing issues whether they are bugs or not. They also have the ability to ask questions of a senior representative if need be and investigate further.

On a final note. If you are having trouble, please post your problem in the appropriate category in our community. For example, if you are having trouble with your Weebly store. Please post your issue in the eCommerce section. We watch the community like a hawk. If we see multiple complaints of a similar issue. We take all the necessary measures to look into the problem.


However, some problems require that you submit a ticket. This is the only way to get an issue escalated or your specific account/site attached to an ongoing bug. Your rep will at that time be able to let you know if the issue you are seeing is being worked on by our developers, etc. at that time. They will not be able to provide an eta, as this is simply not available to them.

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@Robin

I will give reporting a bug via a support ticket today a try and see how it goes. I know of two problematic irrirtating bugs with the store.  I anticipate being told that the feature that is so limiting is supposed to work that way. Hopefully, I am wrong. I will be back to post in ideas if I am told that.

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@Robin

I just reported two major bugs via the support ticket and sure enough this was the canned respose that I received. Instead of it being recognized as a bug, which it most obviously is, I received the same answer I get everytime when I point out the flaws with the site editor and store builder. 

"I'm sorry to say that we don't currently provide this feature. But feedback like yours makes it much more likely that we'll develop and release such an option
If you want to keep up with our changes and updates, be sure to follow our blog at blog.weebly.com
You are also welcome to suggest and vote on this and other features at weebly.com/editor/feature_requ...

I am not blaming or shaming the support ticket responder at all because I know that is the only info they can provide. This is a great example of how the support ticket system does not work and how it being reported in the community is a better option. If 100+ people experience the same thing but articulate it differently and all report privately via support ticket, no one will know that it is something that weebly already knows about, or that others are experiencing the same thing. Is it a problem just with how site editor is working for them and an isolated event or are other weebly users across multiple platforms experiencing it too? 

Idea about fixing a Bug:

https://community.weebly.com/t5/Vote-on-Features/Populating-Headers-and-Copying-Elements-Throughout-...

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I see no problem with having a forum for people to post bugs.  There is no obligation by the Weebly team to respond to people's technical issues or perceived  bugs in the forum.  Simply provide a disclaimer that it's not how Weebly handles bugs if need be.  Users can talk amongst one another about issues they encounter and it's only a good thing.  I think this is a case where more communication is better then less communication.  If a bug forum is beneficial to the community then I'm all for it.

@Robin I don't see @monstr or @Creature asking people not to submit bugs.  They just want a way to discuss their Weebly editor issues with the community.  

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What I meant in the reporting bugs is completely different than what @Robin was trying to say and explain. I didn't mean like if somebody's website editor is not opening properly because of reason xxx, then he/she must post it in the community, because I know that this is something that your customer support team must answer and test it themselves by re-creating the issue as you have mentioned to see if it truly is a bug or something that by clearing your browser's cache, it can be easily resolved. But sometimes, it's a bug that comes inside the Weebly editor ITSELF, which has nothing to do with us as Users, and there's nothing we can do about it except than to open and submit a support ticket!!! So the issue can sometimes be coming internally. For instance, after I have installed the price chart element from the app center, I came to start filling in the fields, and the settings panel kept bouncing up all the time not allowing me to write in anything. It was so annoying and bothering that I deleted it. There are also many other bugs which I have noticed such as the divider element not appearing at all even after publishing my site. So I thought that a forum specifically tailored for reporting bugs would allow the Weebly community as well as the developers to communicate with one another effortlessly and know each other's problems that we are facing INSIDE THE EDITOR! I hope that you get my point clearly. Cheers!

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There certainly is no harm in posting an issue you are experiencing to the Community forum, to see if other users are experiencing the same issue and might possibly have a resolution that they have discovered.

However, there are many variables that come in to play with regards to issues/bugs. Many issues are not actually "bugs" but simply limitations to the Weebly platform, or features that are not currently available within Weebly.

The only way to determine if your issue is an actual bug is to submit the issue to our Support team, either via a Support ticket or by contacting us through either chat or phone support.
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I'm just going to put this here:

What would it hurt to have a section set aside within the community for people to discuss 'possible' bugs/issues?  Some of us have reported issues to support AND to the community to no avail.  At least having a separate topic to discuss these things with each other would let others know it isn't just them.  I see this as a positive thing.  Just my two cents.

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Two great examples of why we need a BUGS section in the Weebly forums:

https://community.weebly.com/t5/eCommerce/Arrangement-of-Products-Undone/m-p/10369#M701


https://community.weebly.com/t5/eCommerce/Products-keep-re-arranging/td-p/9715

Many users were wondering if they were imagining things or if it was indeed site wide.

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