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by aasasd 2562 days ago
Oh boy. I guess you haven't noticed but it's ubiquitous. Every communication channel for a popular program is filled with help requests and feature requests. It might've been alright back in the day when there were much fewer people on the web and apps like VLC were for enthusiasts.

A bug tracker with feature requests for a popular app is like a gang rape these days. Hundreds upon hundreds of “Why is it still not fixed, it should take just ten minutes!!!” The weirdest thing is, trackers for things like Intellij Idea or Node.js are similarly filled with every problem, wish and opinion that users have—you'd think that programmers should know better but apparently not. “Tab to exit parentheses is essential for me, I'm not migrating from Eclipse until this is implemented!”

I almost completely stopped posting issues without code when I saw the scale of this phenomenon.

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This is what I like with Stack Overflow. Most of this kind of posts are removed. Starting to contribute and following the review queues was mind opening. Also it helps me a lot to improve my own question.