Hello fellows! Iāve got a couple tester patterns on my page that were supposed to have concluded a couple weeks ago and have tried, but cannot get ahold of the designers. I donāt know why theyāre unresponsive but have not replied to messages or, if there was one, the group chat in a while. The lingering patterns are cluttering up my test page and I was wondering if thereās anything we can do, besides removing ourselves from testing, to complete the process on our side as testers.
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Itās annoying when the designers do that ;-; after around a month of them not replying to anything i say i just leave. I also message them to let them know i had to leave bc they didnt remove me <3
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I had this happen to me. The first thing that I did was message the tester I had completed the pattern, with a completed photo of the pattern. When they were unresponsive afterwards I have taken my time and waited. I would say wait about a week longer than the due date was, and then if they still are responsive, then I say just leave like what @DasChubba had said above.
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@kodaa and @DasChubba are right. if ur designer your testing for wonāt care to reply you, then they donāt care enough. i have a question tho: have you seen your tester designer active anywhere else in the community?
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Hi ive had people do this DO NOT REMOVE THEM RIGHT AWAY! What i do is i post a comment on the group chat and i say āhow is your shark going @blahblah34ā
Then if they dont respond to that i private message them and if they still dont respond in like a day or so i remove them from the group chat and i remove them as tester (dont press remove and gift press remove) but if you see that they are actively commenting on posts then that just means they are completely ignoring/ghosting you
And they could have notifications off in their settings so the may not get notified about things on the group chat, but if you get tagged you get notified and if you get a private message you get notified
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Iām the tester for patterns in question, not the designer. ^-^ I will keep this in mind for when Iām the designer, though.
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I havenāt seen them active anywhere else, but I havnāt truly been looking in other places, so iām not sure. Iāve tried chats and direct messages where possible and not seen a response, or messages in group chat if there is one (Thereās not a group chat for at least one of the patterns on my tester page.)
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Honestly, it baffles me that this is an occasional issue. Testers are doing the designers a HUGE favor by donating their time and talent to help ensure the designer is successful. I canāt help but assume there must be some issue at playā¦ connection issues, life events, etc.
Is it possible to archive testing patterns like library patterns?
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This is a great idea. Put it on the suggestion page.
Is the pattern you tested live on ribblr? If not, there could be a problem with the pattern that needs fixed first.
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When I have people test my patterns I do my best to be able to contact them During, while and after they test because to make sure there are no mistakes but I can see forgeting about responding back. And thatās what Iām hoping happens when I donāt get replied back to when doing a test. Hopefully they reach out to you.
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Thatās really unfortunate, just like how testers can ghost designers it applies the other way as well. Thereās a chance that theyāre not getting notifications. I had a designer not reply for a long time to a question but then replied and said they didnāt get notifications since they were logged out of Ribblr (that did happen to me as well as others) so that could have happened to them as well since not everyone is going on Ribblr everyday. However if theyāre still active in the community thatās probably not the case. (See below on how to tell when users were last active)
For whatever reason maybe they arenāt getting message notifications. If itās a group message chat I would individually message them, in their tester call post I would comment (if itās closed I would comment on their most recent not closed post) and even use the private chat (not message) asking if they received your message as you didnāt get a response yet
It also could be because they donāt want to gift the pattern to completed testers, which is unfortunate. As testers we use our supplies and money to make sure the pattern they created is understood and enjoyed by all. If they didnāt intend on gifting the pattern at the end, the very least they could have done was mention in the testing call post and not ghost testers. Just like how designers keep note of testers that ghost them itās also important as testers to keep note of designers they probably wonāt work with again if they ghosted them as well.
I would wait to remove yourself as you wonāt get karma that way as only through gifting and removing is it rewarded. I would do what I mentioned above and message them through all possible way to make sure they are getting the notifications and if after that they are still active then they might have ghosted you and donāt intend to gift the pattern unfortunately
Hereās how to tell if a user is active in the community you click their profile and then again until youāre able to scroll down a bit and see something like this (make sure you click the three lines) it shows everything theyāve done if you scroll down and can even be specific as well for topics, replies, likes, etc) let me knkw of you need further/more detailed explaination 
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Thank you all for your input and answers! I appreciate that you all took the time to help me with this, and I hope you all have a wonderful week!
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