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by encom5 hours ago |

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by database641284 hours ago|

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> I've passed on reporting so many bugs, because I refuse to create a Microsoft account to do it.

99% of the time it's perfectly fine to just email the maintainer with a bug report and maybe a patch.

> In fact, I don't understand how sending an email is high friction.

Judging from the fact that after so many years, such a widespread (as seen in the Reddit post and here) issue still hasn't resulted in a single bug report in the mailing list, I'd say most people (including myself) do indeed consider using a mailing list to be higher friction.

If I'm not mistaken, unless you're already CC'ed by a participant, you'd have to subscribe to the whole mailing list just to receive notifications for a single thread. For an "issue" on a Git forge, participation is usually as easy as upvoting and then clicking the "Subscribe" button.

by encom4 hours ago|

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Assuming you're already using MS Github. Anyway, even if I was, a lot of Github project require filling out an absurd Simon Says form. Or that scene from Indiana Jones where he takes a wrong step and falls through the floor. That's nothing to do with email or Microsoft specifically, it's just another reason I almost never bother reporting bugs. Talk about friction.

by database641283 hours ago|

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Yeah, I hate these forms (issue templates) too. Every time I have to fill such a form, I always feel that they are discouraging me from writing the bug description in a natural, coherent way. I'd spend more effort to make sure the description is clear and contains all necessary information, if there's no issue template requirements.

by jeremyjh1 hours ago|

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Yes, but most people won't. Most people will submit a bug report with important information missing that means we have to go back and forth. Also, there is often specific debugging information that people would not even know would be useful.

In the current age, its useful because AI will submit tickets using the CLI that don't use the form, so I can immediately close and lock them and go on living my life.