Comment not processed while in Preview mode

[Elliria]

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When writing a comment in a Discussion or anywhere on GitHub where a comment can be written, if the Preview tab is active when you click the Comment button, nothing visibly happens except that the Comment button dims and becomes unclickable. Your comment text will still be in the Preview tab and no new comment will have been added to the conversation above. If you then click on the Write tab, your typed text will be cleared from the Preview tab and your comment will be added to the conversation above. There is no issue if the Write tab is active when you click the Comment button.

[Elliria]

Thank you for verifying the bug, @dakshithadissanayaka. Do you happen to have instructions for exactly how I would go about reporting this bug to GitHub's support team? I looked up how to file a bug report with GitHub and this is where it brought me, so I thought I was filling out a bug report by opening this discussion. Any help would be appreciated.

[Elliria]

Thank you for letting me know it's a known issue. Do you have a link to the issue so I can keep an eye on it (and learn where actual GitHub issues are located for future reference)?

[PavanLuca]

I see the same issue but in my case the comments are published anyway, even if I was on Preview before clicking Comment the comment is effectively published, GitHub just doesn't close the preview once published, that's it.

[Elliria]

Same here. And if the Preview tab is active when you click the Comment button, nothing visibly happens except that the Comment button dims and becomes unclickable. Your comment text will still be in the Preview tab and no new comment will have been visibly added to the conversation above, even though, as you pointed out, the comment will actually have been added to the conversation.

[PavanLuca]

Yes, the button is dimmed and becomes unclickable, too. Luckily the comment is posted. As I said, what we see is just a “glitch”, an appearance, otherwise GitHub team would receive a ton of reports for missing comments.

[Elliria]

Hopefully that means that it will be a simple issue to fix.