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Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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JUST in time for me man thank you. I'm going to try it. Our company has just grown to where it isn't just some engineers and a few sales guys. Now we're trying to keep engineers working efficiently. / accurately, and the support team is ramping up. Making it easy for the sales or support guys to log a good ticket or bug is a never ending challenge. This looks like a great option. I worked in support for ages and late…

That is really awesome to hear. Thank you for such a nice message!

+1 –– when I worked at Cloudflare, the support team had to teach all of us how to export HAR files from our browsers for engineers. It's definitely a mountain to climb to get good bug reporting working internally.

Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Great concern! We do two things to address that: The first is nothing gets recorded and saved (or even sent to our backend) until the user actively chooses to log a bug. So it’s like actively choosing to save a HAR file when there’s a bug. The second is we scrub all network requests on the client side for anything that resembles PII or sensitive data. We just don’t want it on our servers. Is there anything else you t…

Some kind of end-to-end team encryption would be great, I could generate a local passphrase using 1Password or something and put it in the team vault. Then you wouldn't have access to the request metadata (maybe outside of hostnames?) on your servers. Alternatively, an option to simply download local replays and then a desktop/electron viewing client instead of having to upload them to a server would be great too

I like that idea a lot, we should do that

Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

#35
This is very cool! One of the hardest things in tech is to teach non tech people to write decent bugs. Our team wouldn’t be able to use this because HAR records at L7 only, after browser content-decoding. A lot of the problems we find end up with symptoms revealed by the encoder or decoder.

Re: Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

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Nice looking landing page. Small bug, when I scroll down the page and then click "pricing" it doesn't take me to the right spot on the page until I click again. On Firefox 125.0.3

They dont even support Firefox with thier browser extension product. Looks like this team give Firefox very little love :(
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