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> It’s a horrifying thought, but it could be that for every one person who opens an issue on GitHub, 100 or more people have already tried your project, run int

> It’s a horrifying thought, but it could be that for every one person who opens an issue on GitHub, 100 or more people have already tried your project, run into that same bug, and simply moved on. It could be 100, or just 1. And sometimes it’s hard to know which without a lot of effort.

JJMcJ 7y ago
This is very typical of all problems, not just software issues.
- mwfunk 7y ago
  Yep. And if it’s truly an unknown, you have to assume the worst, it does no one any good to assume the best.
  - JJMcJ 7y ago
    One reason companies do things on "the basis of only three complaints". If three people complain, there might be hundreds or thousands who didn't bother.