They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken
Most of the time other people <i>have</i> already reported egregious bugs. Spending hours investigating a bug and reporting it, especially to a big project, is much more often than not wasted time:<p>- Search for a duplicate for 20 minutes and find nothing. Spend another five minutes on a search engine because the ticketing system search results seem to have nothing to do with your search terms.<p>- Spend five minutes signing up for the N+1th bug tracker.<p>- Two or more hours gathering details because every single bug tracker wants all the details upfront rather than just a problem description. Understandable but frustrating because of what comes later.<p>- Adapt the findings to the N+1th bug template in the N+1th inferior Markdown imitation.<p>- Submit.<p>- Wait for an unknown length of time, sometimes years, without a <i>human</i> response.<p>- Once you get an answer is when it gets <i>really</i> frustrating, because most of the time it is <i>not</i> a new bug. Issue tracker search is just not anywhere near smart enough to save the community millions of hours every year filing duplicates. I must've filed two duplicate bugs for every non-duplicate, and believe me, I really try to save those hours by searching first.