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Confusing second "Share" button
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Description
IRC user samjs stumbled on this in #serde. Situation: someone sends you a playground link, you make some changes, run it, and want to send back a link with the modifications. We are used to clicking the "Share" button at the top to get a sharable link. But in this usage pattern there is a confusing second "Share" button -- the tab in the sidebar. You click it and it presents you with links to share, just as if you had clicked the correct share button. But this time the links you get do not include the new changes you wanted to share.
I don't know the right solution but this seems confusing.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the described workflow in the Rust Playground: open a received link, modify and run it, then compare the top Share button with the sidebar Share tab. Determine how each produces links and define the change so sharing the modified playground reliably includes those changes.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100