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What are response previews?

Previews allow you to observe Dosu’s commenting behavior without user facing impact.

This feature was developed along side users who were excited about Dosu, but wanted more information before making a decision to allow it to respond to users. With previews, you can see what Dosu would have commented on a new issue if commenting had been enabled.

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Configuration Settings

You’ll be able to see Dosu previews as long as Dosu isn’t configured to reply to new threads.

Specifically, this means “Comment Similar Issues” must be disabled and issue commenting must be disabled or set to automatically reply to No One.

For more information, see the GitHub Workspace Configuration page.

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Previews

Given the correct configuration, Dosu previews will appear on the Threads page.

This page shows all the conversations visible to Dosu across an organization.

Selecting the title of specific thread from the list will pull up the full thread on the right side of the page. Each message of the thread will be displayed and the Dosu preview will be included with the “Preview” badge you see above.