Also lazy users are perhaps not the ones making significant contributions to the project anyway, because they’re lazy.
Consider as well that when Github/Gitlab.com force me through hoops as a Tor user, not only am I too lazy to solve CAPTCHAs and do Github email re-verifications but I also feel like those efforts feed unethical systems which is even more anti-motivational. I will not dance for them – and as a consequence I often do not report bugs that I discover if the project is on Github or Gitlab.com.
When a project uses Gitlab.com or Github, I’ll usually report the bug in some unconventional place (IRC, a forum, Mastodon, etc). I have little confidence that it gets spotted by someone who then actually transcribes the bug into a bug tracking/triage system. For some projects there is no suitable means of communication (they only use Twitter or Facebook or some exclusive walled garden).
Concur with u/fruechtchen.
Also lazy users are perhaps not the ones making significant contributions to the project anyway, because they’re lazy.
Consider as well that when Github/Gitlab.com force me through hoops as a Tor user, not only am I too lazy to solve CAPTCHAs and do Github email re-verifications but I also feel like those efforts feed unethical systems which is even more anti-motivational. I will not dance for them – and as a consequence I often do not report bugs that I discover if the project is on Github or Gitlab.com.
You can also report bugs here on this site.
When a project uses Gitlab.com or Github, I’ll usually report the bug in some unconventional place (IRC, a forum, Mastodon, etc). I have little confidence that it gets spotted by someone who then actually transcribes the bug into a bug tracking/triage system. For some projects there is no suitable means of communication (they only use Twitter or Facebook or some exclusive walled garden).