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🏮 Lamplighter — the bug bot

Post a bug in the forum and watch it get triaged, fixed and shipped.

In Discord

Lamplighter is how a broken thing becomes a fixed thing. You describe what went wrong, it opens a thread, and the report goes into a pipeline that triages it, proposes a fix, and tells you when it ships. There are no commands — you write a message like a person.

Reporting from inside a tool

The fastest route is not Discord at all. Every tool has a Report Bug button — bottom-left on the web apps, in the menu on desktop.

  • Click Report Bug where the problem happened.
  • It captures a screenshot and fills in which tool and page you were on.
  • Describe what happened.
  • Send.
Tip: Use the button rather than typing in the forum when you can. It attaches the screenshot and the version automatically, which is most of what a fix needs and all of what people forget.
Reporting in the forum
  • Go to the bug forum.
  • Start a new post. Tag it with the app it is about — the tag is what routes it.
  • Say what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead.
  • Attach a screenshot if you have one.
What makes a report fixable

The difference between a bug that gets fixed this week and one that sits for a month is almost always detail.

IncludeWhy
What you clicked, in orderSo it can be reproduced. A bug nobody can reproduce cannot be fixed.
What you expectedSometimes the software is right and the surprise is the real bug.
What actually happenedExact wording of any error.
A screenshotUsually worth the rest combined.
Which tool and whereObvious to you, not to the reader.
Note: "The chef tool is broken" cannot be acted on. "Chef → Buff Browser, filtering to Drink only shows zero cards even though there are drink buffs" gets fixed.
What happens after you post
You post🐛 capturedTriagedFix proposedShipped
  • The bot reacts to confirm it captured your report.
  • Reactions on your thread track its status as it moves.
  • Comments go in your thread — if more information is needed, that is where you will be asked.
  • When it ships you get a ping to confirm the fix worked.
Tip: If you are pinged to verify a fix, please answer. A fix nobody confirms stays open, and the next person hits the same bug.
Things worth knowing
  • One bug per thread. Three problems in one post means two get lost.
  • Search before posting. If a thread exists, add to it — a second report on the same bug is genuinely useful evidence.
  • Feature requests are welcome, just say that is what it is so it is not triaged as broken.
  • Screenshots of loot or chat are fine, but crop out anything you would not want public.
For maintainers

Triage happens in the desktop Bug Squasher, which pulls the forum into a queue, runs reports against the right app's source, and proposes fixes for review.