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If you submitted a bug report on Stack Overflow, they'd tell you to file it on the bug tracker instead. GitHub issues are a terrible way to teach someone how to use a project.



That's the expert point of view. But when you're learning a technology, you don't know what's the expected behavior, where's the problem (your code or the lib) and if you understood the spirit correctly, so you don't know where the problem is, you just need an expert pair of eyes to make sense of things. So you get kicked out of SO for lack of point-worthy question, and of github for lack of repro.

Moreover some projects do their support on github (not saying it's good or bad, just confusing).

I've had that recently, I don't even know where to ask what's the expected behavior (google chrome APIs, impossible to reach a human being).


> I don't even know where to ask what's the expected behavior

Yup, this part can be super bad. This is why I'm happy CONTRIBUTING.md exists on GitHub, and why they show it whenever a new issue is opened.


for certain projects, I like ost.io as a way of "ask me anything" to project authors. I wish something like it were more widely used however.




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