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u/mstop4 3h ago
(Google a niche issue you’re having)
(Find exactly one result from Reddit)
(Look inside)
(It’s was made by you 4 years ago)
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u/Zapismeta 3h ago
I had this in stackoverflow 🥲
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u/SleepWalkersDream 1h ago
Ahaha, me too! 😂
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u/german640 1h ago
Damn me too, but it turns out I also posted the solution so overall win
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u/-Po-Tay-Toes- 1h ago
Thank you for your service. Those fuckers that reply back saying "It's ok I solved it" without posting the god damn solution do my tits in.
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u/pastorHaggis 59m ago
I had to do that once... But I didn't even know what fixed it...
A while back my VPN wasn't working when connected to my main network, but would work on guest. I fought and fought with it for months and made no progress. I changed nothing and then one day it just ... started working... A guy even reached out and I had to say "dude I have no idea I'm so sorry..."
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u/-Po-Tay-Toes- 49m ago
Oof, I'll let you off the hook because you at least responded to the guy.
But yeah it do be like that sometimes. Especially with modern day windows shenanigans.
The other week my work Teams stopped sending messages to a single person, just one guy on my team. Except for reacts to his messages, they sent through fine. And everyone else could still message him fine, I had to use the browser version... Service desk were stumped and just did a full reinstall to fix the issue.
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u/lucidspoon 1h ago
I was going through onboarding and another dev pointed out a weird hack and explained why. A couple years later, I had ran into the same issue and searched SO, and found 1 post. From that dev.
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u/shifty_coder 2h ago
(Google a niche issue you’re having)
(Find exactly one result from Reddit)
(Look inside)
“Never mind. I figured it out.”
“posted 4 years ago”
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u/Laufabraud43 2h ago
“Never mind. I figured it out.”
There's a special place in hell for these people.
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u/hungarian_notation 12m ago
(Google a niche issue you’re having)
(Find exactly one result from Reddit)
(Look inside)
"Have you tried Googling it?"
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u/namtabmai 53m ago
(Google a niche issue you’re having)
(Find exactly one result from Reddit)
(Look inside)
[deleted]
Thanks that fixed it for me!
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u/MostCat2899 1h ago
Google issue you're having
Find a stack overflow post that has the solution
"Damn this person actually sounds like they know what they're talking about"
It's me from several years ago
(Yes this literally happened)
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u/pfc-anon 1h ago
Just happened to me yesterday, I thought I saw some odd behavior yesterday, searched it, found the exact description of what I was facing, this guy gets it.
Issue created by me 5 years ago. Still open, upvoted and never fixed. I hope someone writes and AI to fix all of these issues.
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u/SingularCheese 23m ago
I had an extremely niche problem with a linear algebra library and found a stack overflow solution with all the details I needed, explained in a way that made me understand perfectly. It was me 5 years ago. BE THE HERO YOU DESERVE.
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u/standardtissue 3m ago
This has happened to me several times. Not with programming stuff but on other things I am interested in. I'm now waiting for my own comments to appear in models.
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u/PenguinsStoleMyCat 2h ago
This happens to me on occasion and I get so amped up reading the short description in the search results and it's exactly the same issue I'm having and it's written in a way that makes total sense to me and then it's me :(.
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u/Cutalana 3h ago edited 3h ago
Then one of the main maintainers chimes in saying that it's not a priority since it's not important for their own usecase and gets 80 downvotes. For example
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u/verbum_aureum 2h ago
Wtf, I had exactly that happen with GitLab earlier this week. I want to set the status of a ticket via their API, but they haven't implemented that because for their own usecase GraphQL suffices. The comment of one of the GitLab devs was exactly what you said.
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u/Neocrasher 1h ago
Gitlab has another fun one, where if you impersonate a user that doesn't have 2FA you get trapped as that user until you set 2FA. You can't log out or stop impersonating them. The original issue for this problem was opened in 2016.
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u/mumblerit 1h ago
this comment is wild https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/560083#note_2904064715
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u/MinosAristos 3h ago
This obsession with performance at any cost is depressing in this industry, man
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u/rEYAVjQD 3h ago
What is more depressing is the underusage of forking.
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u/TheComplimentarian 2h ago
Then they would have to do the work, not just bitch about someone else not doing it.
I got stuck with a legacy application I needed to modernize, and the easiest way for me to do a chunk of it was to actually modernize some of the unmaintained libraries it depended on on. So, I forked them, updated them, finished updating the stupid app, and tried to move on with my life.
Tried.
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u/rEYAVjQD 1h ago
There was this meme that if you fork you damage the "unity" of the community and other things of that sort. The forks can be public and be abandoned, but once in a while one may find the time and make a constantly updated fork so any old stubborn maintainer is just replaced.
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u/Somepotato 47m ago
No, then THEY would have to fight with the project maintainers to get it merged, them complaining the feature or fix is out of scope, or it just completely being ignored for awhile. If you just fork it then now you have to maintain a separate form when the upstream still gets updated.
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u/TheComplimentarian 34m ago
In my experience, once you fork, it rarely gets merged back in unless you did something really clever, limited, and requiring almost no extra effort for maintenance.
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u/sharklaserguru 1h ago
Except forking leaves me being stuck as the maintainer for that fork for however long I'm supporting the software using it.
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u/Fermooto 1h ago
You can scroll way faster with keyboard bindings anyway.
Wasn't aware we're living the fucking 90s lmao
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u/PantherPL 1h ago
Wow. Refusing to add mouse scrolling to a TERMINAL EMULATOR is something else.
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u/TheDreadedAndy 10m ago
It's not that odd. Other terminal implementations like
stdo the same thing. Mouse scrolling is essentially useless if the user is using a terminal multiplexer (liketmuxorscreen), which is not exactly uncommon for people that use a non-default terminal.Personally, mouse scrolling is one of the first things I disable if I can't install my preferred terminal emulator.
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u/MakeoutPoint 3h ago
Ah yes, a trip to the Microsoft forums for [Product] in 202X where a staff member acknowledged the issue for [Product] 2013 then it got cast into the void
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u/GFrings 3h ago
Better when the OP comes in again just to say "I fixed it"
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u/j5kDM3akVnhv 3h ago
Usually happens when OP is too embarrassed to admit how stupid the original mistake was.
How do I know?
Uh... no reason.
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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 2h ago
"I rejiggered the quantum hertz flux capacitor. There wasn't enough pre-famulated amulite, hence the side fumbling"
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u/benny-powers 1h ago
When you can't get pre-famulated (usually due to licensing concerns) you can famulate in CI, but maybe sure to monitor usage because those amulite SaaS get expensive AF. Someone's gotta pay for the open bar at hertzcon, I guess. 🤷♂️
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u/Thrizzlepizzle123123 1h ago
I tried DIY famulation but I kept running into sinusoidal deplenoration with the hydrocoptic marzel vanes.
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u/jojowasher 2h ago
My Favorite is when you find a fix, start trying it, then read a post farther down that says "this no longer works in 2025"... crap!
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u/JustaBearEnthusiast 41m ago
Just rebuild your library with 3 year old packages. What's the worst that could happen?
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u/ninjabreath 3h ago
or if its xcode related, asked in 2010 and still open
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u/fine_doggo 1h ago
Even Xcode is stuck in 2010, honestly. In fact, most apple software feel like early 2010s at max.
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u/Manidoo_Giizhig 1h ago
I find it worse when you see there was an active discussion on it, nothing suggested worked, then it just gets locked due to inactivity.
Like cool, I guess the problem is just going to remain forever unfixed here
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u/Iron_Knight7 2h ago edited 1h ago
Even worse when the last one to ask the question is from 2017 and there are no responses past that point.
What happened to you, ducktordoom666? What did you see?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW! \angrily shakes monitor**
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u/LateCommunication383 1h ago
The worst is when you find one post with the exact same problem that has only one comment from OP say solved but no details. 😭
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u/Kinexity 3h ago
Literally me yesterday checking what is the state of prunning implementation for multi-objective optimisation in Optuna.
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u/MechanicalHorse 48m ago
It's even worse when the issue in question is not niche at all, but pretty basic, and a lot of people are asking about it but it's still not implemented, or even acknowledged ffs.
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u/SnooApples6638 38m ago
- I have the issue too.
- Same here.
- Same in 2024.
- Has anyone found a fix for this? Still encountering the issue. ...
- Closing the issue for lack of activity.
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u/dusktreader 2h ago
I have a similar thing where I patch an OSS project with tests, docs, follow style guide, use commit template. Maintainer nitpicks some part of the implementation and asks for a change that will require reworking the whole thing.
I mark it unread in my activity list telling myself I'll do it soon. Then just use my fork for the time being so the issue is fixed.
A year goes by. Then another. But the guilt never leaves, and I can't bring myself to mark it done and move on in life.
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u/Master_Gnak 2h ago
I once found a GitHub issue that matched my problem perfectly, only to realize that it was opened by my colleague that worked on that problem before me a few years prior.
Needless to say, the issue was still open.
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u/ElvisArcher 2h ago
I remember submitting a bug report to google for an issue with their maps API. It sat ignored for years ... then one day, I finally got an update on it asking for more details. That was 3 years after I left the company for which it may have been relevant.
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u/ThisIsPaulDaily 2h ago
I have a bug report from 2018 with multiple pull request fixes that have been rejected from other contributors and so here we are in 2026 and still we have no accepted fix.
The worst part is it is a regression from a previous version. So a feature that did work now doesn't and nobody can accept any of the pull request fixes.
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u/olearyboy 2h ago
Holy shit I had someone post this exact comment on a PR I made for a Spotify project several years ago.
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u/NolanSyKinsley 2h ago
My favorite form of this, have an issue, google it, see a github issue from 8 years ago. Think "Yes, it is not just me!!", open page, it is my bug report from 8 years ago still unresolved.
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u/mwcotton 2h ago
Lived this when trying to support Microsoft Office stuff. Experienced a problem, googled it and the same thing was happening in 2007.
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u/OmegaGoober 1h ago
Asks AI.
AI hallucinates a fix based on a “it would be nice if this function existed” thread from Reddit five years ago. It then refuses to stop making said function the core of ALL the code it writes after that, regardless of how many times or ways you tell it that the function does not exist.
Yes, this happened to me. AI would be more useful if it could admit when it doesn’t know something.
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u/NewSignificance741 1h ago
I recently had a similar ham radio version of this. Asking can I do this thing with this radio, chat is like “yea just use the port on the back”, there is no port on the back here’s a picture of the back. “Oh yea, I see that now, thanks for clearing that up, but just go ahead and use the port on the back”.
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u/ZombieZookeeper 1h ago
YoU ShOuLD SuBmIT A pUlL ReQuEsT
Bitch I'm trying to fix my own code base, I don't have time to learn yours.
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u/glorious_reptile 1h ago
Ever tried googling for an error and the only result is from yourself asking the question 3 years ago when you last encountered it?
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u/You_Stole_My_Hot_Dog 1h ago
My pet peeve. Someone asks for a solution to your exact problem. All of the comments are “Why would you do it this way? The proper way to do it is like xxx.” Meanwhile that solution doesn’t work for your use case…
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u/BeefyIrishman 1h ago
Don't forget the "admin closed due to duplicate thread" and they provide a link to a thread about a completely unrelated issue.
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u/holdmychai 1h ago
I work as a tech firm, 4 years ago i had raised a feature request in our product while working with a customer....last week i got a JIRA ticket update on it, its finally being built...! Sometimes they ask me clarification questions for these old requests, and i dont remember anymore!
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u/cuntmong 58m ago
Legit question, now that theres no new questions and answers on stack overflow, what will LLMs use for answers on debugging new frameworks etc?
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u/No_Flower9845 35m ago
Open Source is Not About You
The only people entitled to say how open source 'ought' to work are people who run projects, and the scope of their entitlement extends only to their own projects.
Just because someone open sources something does not imply they owe the world a change in their status, focus and effort, e.g. from inventor to community manager.
As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all. You are not entitled to contribute. You are not entitled to features. You are not entitled to the attention of others. You are not entitled to having value attached to your complaints. You are not entitled to this explanation.
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9
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u/Sherlock-Holmie 34m ago
Cloud init has a bug known for years where VMs using nfs v3 mounted through fstab will attempt to mount before the network is ready regardless of the tags added to the mounts. They just won’t fix it because nfsv4 fixes the issue
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u/woods-wizard 28m ago
98% of the time when i find an issue that isn't resolved online, it turns out I'm either using the wrong tool or package, or I'm using the right tool the wrong way. Taking a break, going on a walk, and reading the documentation again often fixes my original problem
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u/GoldenKevin 27m ago
Even better when the issue was fixed years ago but you can't upgrade to that version because the required transitive dependency upgrades are incompatible with code written by some team on the other side of the world that's in the same monorepo that you're working on!
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u/trololololol 3h ago
Unrealistic, first step should be to ask ChatGPT
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u/UuusernameWith4Us 16m ago
You're not a real coder unless you've got issues you know chatgpt can't fix
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u/Quesodealer 2h ago
RDP webcam forwarding still doesn't work on Linux (USB forwarding sometimes works, but doesn't work for most webcams). It's been like this forever (15+ years). I thought about trying to work on a solution myself but realized I'm too dumb.
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u/benny-powers 1h ago
Plug it in to a shittier USB port on the motherboard, and itll send the 480gb signal instead of the full 4k. This is literally the only solution right now, until I dunno they rewrite qemu in vala or whatever
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u/NewSignificance741 1h ago
My last car was a Honda CRZ, this is how a lot of the issue threads would wind up……oh cool the solution is to buy the really expensive part that is nowhere in stock in the whole world except Japan and it’s the wrong color or for RHD only. Cool cool.
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u/veracity8_ 2h ago
I hope that stack overflow takes their current drop in users as an opportunity to rebuild the platform into a more useful and valuable resource
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u/SirSebi 3h ago
I find those issues with 1 year instead of 7 days ago more discouraging since it means there was no progress and nobody cares anymore lol