MicrosoftaChrisDuarte, I do not think that you understand my concerns.
> Your description of the varying feedback systems you've encountered across Microsoft highlights one of the challenges we're trying to address with this change -- providing a consistent way for people to give feedback.
I do not particularly care whether my feedback experience is consistent; I want it to work well. Right now, the feedback system on GitHub works, and the feedback system off GitHub largely does not work. Moving the GitHub feedback system to a feedback system implemented to the same standards as Feedback Portal would be a massive downgrade.
> this new system supports languages other than English.
Pardon. Does GitHub not support languages other than English? What am I not understanding?
> the feedback form will continue to evolve and incorporate features in the coming months, so thank you for sharing your idea to incorporate markdown support.
So it won't support Markdown at first and maybe not ever.
> [screenshot]
Wait. Does that mean that feedback on Microsoft Learn will (mostly) move away from the discussion format altogether?
I had not realized the implications of "a simplified thumbs up / thumbs down form". That UI does not look as though it would support Markdown, images, linking to other issues, discussion, or probably even responses from Microsoft. ಠ_ಠ It rather looks as though Microsoft is expending effort in order to remove functionality and make my user experience worse.
Could you perhaps tell us more about the feature set of the proposed new feedback system?
> your submissions will remain anonymous
Why is this useful? I like community discussion (in case of workarounds or workflow corrections), which anonymity would seemingly make rather difficult.
Besides, can't anyone who wishes create an anonymous GitHub account already?
> most open-source products will continue to have open-source content repositories.
This sounds as though this change will involve removing the open-source content repository of at least one open-source product. Is this the case?
> It’s important to note that even the open-source repositories will have the option of using the new form for submitting your responses, if you prefer to use it over GitHub Issues or a Pull Request.
So if you have to support the dual tracks of GitHub issues and the new feedback form anyway, why turn off GitHub issues for most repositories?
I do not understand the advantage of this change. Isn't forum-style feedback much more fully detailed and helpful than form-submitted feedback?
