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I love the UI concept. Being able to point at a broken thing rather than try to uniquely describe the position/state/path to a broken thing is smart!

Hooooever, "bug" could be a bit ambiguous to a lot of people. Looks like in a real deployment, you have a little tooltip that says "Spotted a bug? Drag me there!". That makes sense to developers and the like... but those are also the sorts of people most likely to write a good bug report anyway. The people most unlikely to write a bug report are the sorts of people who will read "spotted a bug" as "there is an insect... game?... on this site?".

"Issue" or "Problem" would be better, but keep the bug graphic! It's cute. :)

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When I took a look quickly, it also shows the "Spotted a bug? Drag me there!" every time the page loads - which could quickly get overwhelming, and make the user wonder why the developer is so certain that they will run into a bug. (Why do developers not make "report a bug" obvious? Because just seeing it implies there are enough bugs that a link is necessary.)

I also have no idea how well this works on mobile - and seeing that the Pro plan doesn't remove attribution seems like a mistake.

I agree - the attribution needs to be removed for paying customers, or at least for me to want to pay for it to use with a client.

The phrasing should be customizable. Even better if the bug is an SVG and I can paste in my own SVG for the bug icon.

I was worried about how it worked on mobile, and unfortunately on my iPhone I could not find a way to drop the bug where I wanted. It did show a popup eventually but it covers a lot of the page given it doesn't work as expected.

Just sharing thoughts/observations; I really like the concept as well.

Whitelist options are coming up :) You will be able to customize the tooltip (or remove it), change the Bugdrop branding to your own and more.

I'm aware of the issue in mobile devices too, will push an update later tonight to fix it.

Hey graypegg, you're right about this. I'm thinking about changing the wording of the popup to something like “Something’s not working” or “Spot a problem?”

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