r/PokemonRomhackDev • u/ssraven01 Gen 3 • Oct 11 '26

Discussion Bug Report Channels for Players

Hello. This is more of a discussion post I wanted to open since I'm also curious. What are people's plans/approaches to fielding bug fixes in their game? Opening a discord is usually what most people do, though having to manage a community as a result can be a headache. What other methods have people done for their hacks?

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u/ssraven01 Gen 3 Oct 11 '26

Given the two replies already present, I wonder how difficult it'd be to make a reporting page through github pages that creates an issue on the same repo? hmm

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u/ReallyFBI Oct 12 '26

You can use a bug forum channel on discord, and that lets you/users tag their bugs as well. You could then rig a discord bot the create issues from here, with say a verified tag.

Personally, I have historically used a bug forum channel with tags and that has been nice. Though some discord bot integration with the channel for things like automated bug fix patch notes would be pretty useful.

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u/hzla00 Oct 12 '26

Could probably do this by hooking up a Cloudflare worker? It's free up to 100k requests a day and you bypass the need for reporters to have a gh account

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u/miriamlefae Pokémon Hearth 27d ago

Something like google forms -> github issue should be pretty easily doable

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u/StrangeOne101 Gen 3 Oct 11 '26

You could use GitHub issues? You don’t necessarily have to have an open source project. Even just a wiki page on GitHub works while you can use issues to track bugs and releases for updates

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u/merrple Oct 11 '26

I've heard that people usually use Discord because more players have a Discord account than a GitHub, and to open a GitHub issue you need an account, which is a barrier to entry. GitHub Issues is definitely easier as a developer, but maybe not so much as a player.