Duplicate issue workflow

[lunaflight]

Based on the following comment
here, I can deduce that you ideally want 1 thread per website.

However, it seems like if there is a duplicate issue, only commenting on the old thread is possible; reopening is not allowed because of permissioning issues. This implies that there is some sort of system to get notified on comments, even if they remain closed and there are 30000+ of them. Is my assumption right?

For example, I opened this, according to the protocols, I merely left a comment on an existing issue, without reopening it since I have no permissions. While leaving a comment does seem to bump the thread, it sort of just blends in with all the other closed threads. As an ignorant person who thinks of the issue tab as a to-do list, this workflow seems somewhat confusing and creates potentially easily missable issues.

I guess my question is, is my interpretation of the current workflow correct? Do comments on closed issues get enough visibility?

[stephenhawk8054]

All volunteers are notified with new comments in old threads. Just comment at the old thread, if the volunteers think the old thread needs to be re-opened, they will re-open.

[freezer2022]

Also by the way, if OP or anyone is curious, here are some discussions with same answers as well:

• derstandard.at: detection #30778
• nrk.no: nuisance #29889 (comment)
• apkmirror.com: detection #25989 (comment)
• kyivindependent.com: nuisances #25063 (comment) + subsequent
• dominos.com: breakage #16086 (comment)

[lunaflight]

I'm not going to advocate for this strongly, but given the plethora of similar doubts and questions, which I'm sure are more plentiful than what you enumerated, maybe its worth to add something like "notifications are still sent" to the issue template?

Maybe something like:

Comment in the old issue threads even when they are closed or even if you have a different problem — notifications are still sent.

[stephenhawk8054]

People already ignore many of the prerequisites, let alone make it longer. We've adjusted the prerequisites many times. Short, long, medium, it doesn't matter. They won't know what "notifications" here is about.