EDIT: My bad, I see you were making a User Contribution, not an original report, missed that in your earlier post. Yes, the follow-ups are all unformatted. That isn't obvious to a reader, however. My comments have never been beyond a single paragraph, so I did not see it in my comments either.
Ah, I see. Yes, the original reports look a lot nicer than the User Contributions. I haven't submitted a full report yet, just the UC.
Which sort of ties into what we were discussing earlier about the Search function and duplicate reports. If I have a detailed report that requires formatting for readability, but someone else has already raised it (and assuming I can actually find it with a search) it seems as though I have a binary choice: I can either forego my carefully formatted text in favour of a glorified "me too" User Contribution to keep things readable while hopefully increasing the visibility of the original report, or post it as a separate report and link to the other using a URL. Which may provide more details, but spread over multiple reports. I'm still not seeing that as an improvement on the Bug Reports Forum, at least not from a player UX perspective.
The only positive spin I can put on this is that it appears as though it might offer better visibility
for FD into the state of the game, and that's arguably the most important thing if it leads to faster removal of bugs. Perhaps that's why Patch 1, although a little later than many of us would have liked, was so effective at killing a lot of the really problematic issues with the April Update. Although the cynic in me can't help but note that some of the more game-breaking bugs were heavily discussed in the main forum and other social channels, so the importance of their presence on the Tracker may be open to question. Only FD will have all of those details.
I guess time will tell. Right now it feels like it's been one step forward and two steps back, but I will admit that the potential for the Tracker to become a useful tool is still there if the right things are polished to improve the user experience. The forum worked, but it was pretty much at a dead end as far as adding features.
