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Do you ever get scared of being eating up by a community for reporting problems. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by mtchristo@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Have you ever been scared or hesitant about reporting flaws or bugs to a community with a strong staunch fanbase ??

Obviously there are different ways of reporting and starting discussions, but I brought up the courage to report a flaw on a subreddit (not to be named) that I knew is very sensitive to criticisme, and I was flooded with downvotes and even was subject to gaslighting, so I gave up on that software and became even more hesitant about reporting problems on other FOSS communities .

Is this mindset very prevalent among all open source communities? have you faced something similar ?

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit is not where I would submit a bug. I would make sure I was running the latest version and that it still has the bug. I would search to see if It is a known issue both with a web search and on their bug tracker. If I found nothing I would submit a well reaseached and documented bug report.

If your a developer you could even submit a patch or pull request against the project main line. Most people cannot do that though.

If it is not a bug then really the developers should not be expected to do much. May not be their priority or vision. Lot more questionable to submit non-bug items unless you plan on developing them yourself and seeing if their is interest in including.