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> You linked a commit and a Reddit post. Is there a proper Github issue as well?

It's funny you mentioned that. The GitHub repository is a mirror of https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-apple. You cannot create issues there. You're supposed to send a bug report to the mailing list, which is enough friction that none of us did so far.

>enough friction that none of us did so far.

Emailed per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50450200

Definitely still a bug right? Linked them to your parent comment.

Edit: oops sorry team, think you're on it (4d ago): https://github.com/whyredfire/wireguard-apple/commit/0bac142...

Guess it can serve as feedback on the friction when issues can't simply be opened though!

> Definitely still a bug right? Linked them to your parent comment.

Thanks! Yes, it is still a bug.

> Edit: oops sorry team, think you're on it (4d ago)

I don't think @zx2c4 has seen this PR, and the author of the PR has not sent a bug report yet, so it's probably fine :P

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>friction

I appreciate when both options exist, because I've passed on reporting so many bugs, because I refuse to create a Microsoft account to do it.

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

> 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.

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