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+title: The month of 'What the Heck?!'
+description: "Ever felt that 'What the heck Home Assistant?!' moment? This month, we would like to learn about your 'what the heck?!' moments..."
+date: 2020-08-18 00:00:00
+date_formatted: "August 18, 2020"
+author: Franck Nijhof
+author_twitter: frenck
+categories: Announcements
+og_image: /images/blog/2020-08-17-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png
+---
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+<a href='https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52'><img src='/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/social.png' style='border: 0;box-shadow: none;'></a>
+
+Welcome to the month of “What the heck?!”
+
+Home Assistant is now almost around for 7 years! During that time, it has grown
+into a big project, beloved by many of you. However, as the project grew, some
+things might not have turned out the way it should be, are missing or maybe even
+started annoying you. That is what this month is about.
+
+We realize reporting bugs on our [GitHub][github-issues] might be a steep hill.
+You’ll need a GitHub account, report an issue following the issue templates
+using Markdown and the report itself needs to be written in a way a developer
+can work with it. Furthermore, we use our issue tracker for tracking actual
+issues and bugs; not small feature requests or annoyances.
+
+While this is a common and reasonable process to collect, track and process
+bugs, our issue tracking process might not be the ideal way to learn about
+annoyances or small tweaks and improvements that can make us all enjoy
+Home Assistant even more.
+
+In May, of this year, the Ruby on Rails project had a [similar month][rorwtf],
+which we have enjoyed watching. Now, we are going to do something similar.
+
+Today, we have opened up a [Community Forum category][forum] as a safe, lower
+barrier place to tell about your Home Assistant “What the heck?!” moments,
+and more importantly, discuss and vote  on topics your fellow users have
+brought up.
+
+Frenck recently tried something similar for Home Assistant on Twitter,
+by asking:
+
+<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Enlighten me 💡<br><br>The whole community would celebrate and be shedding happy tears of joy, if this tiny little thing was added to <a href="https://twitter.com/home_assistant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@home_assistant</a>...</p>&mdash; Franck Nijhof (@Frenck) <a href="https://twitter.com/Frenck/status/1285592609772244993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a>
+</blockquote>
+
+The responses to that question were amazing! Full of inspiration, recognition of
+stuff that annoyed us as well, but also some really really good suggestions.
+And this is not just about new tiny little things, examples may include:
+
+- I’d love to see some Home Assistant sensors with things like: The total
+  automations, triggers processed this hour, the total number of integrations,
+  entities, number of events fired.
+- I want to be able to upload a backup on the frontend on the first install.
+- Maybe you are annoyed by some logs that you need to refresh and scroll to see
+  updates?
+- You have a lot of template entities that all do the same thing and maybe could
+  be handled by Home Assistant automatically.
+- Always need a workaround to automate something the way you like and really
+  wished Home Assistant provided a better trigger/condition for it?
+
+These are the things we are looking for, the things we should share this month.
+
+We are really looking forward to all the stuff that will be brought up!
+This will be interesting!
+
+**[Join us on the forums!][forum]**
+
+<p class='img'>
+<img src='/images/blog/2020-08-18-the-month-of-what-the-heck/jackie-chan-what-the-heck.jpg' alt='Image of a person expressing a what the heck moment'></a>
+So, when does Home Assistant trigger this moment for you?
+</p>
+
+## FAQ
+
+- **_“I have multiple things! Should I put all my stuff in a single topic?!”_**
+
+  No, please create multiple, smaller topics. Each topic can be voted on,
+  picked up and resolved. Having multiple things stacked in a single forum
+  topic, makes resolving, discussing and voting on them hard. There is no
+  limitation on how many things one can suggest this month.
+
+- **_"Is everything reported going to be fixed/addressed?"_**
+
+  There is no guarantee that will happen. The goal is to lower the barrier to
+  reporting things for one month. Home Assistant still relies on contributors
+  to address or improve the project. However, we do think collecting feedback
+  this way can tremendously help with the upcoming
+  [Hacktoberfest][hacktoberfest].
+
+- **_"I really want this new integration to be implemented, so I can use my
+  devices. Is this the right place for it?"_**
+
+  No, this event is not for requesting new device or services integrations.
+  Please use the [“Feature Requests”][feature-requests] forum category instead.
+
+- **_"I’ve found a bug and am comfortable with GitHub. Where should I report my
+  issue now?"_**
+
+  If you are comfortable with using GitHub, please, by all means, [file an issue
+  report on GitHub][github-issues].
+
+[rorwtf]: https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/5/7/A-May-of-WTFs/
+[forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/what-the-heck/52
+[github-issues]: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues
+[feature-requests]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/feature-requests/13
+[hacktoberfest]: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com