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Closing an issue shouldn't prevent anyone from finding it though. At least on GitHub closed issues are still visible in the issue tracker.

• innocenat 5y ago
  Who search for closed issues when searching if other have the same bug?
  • TeMPOraL 5y ago
    I do, because I realized people close stale issues just because (and then there are bots that do it now too). I'm happy I can still do it, and I worry that one day someone will have a bright idea to "archive" closed issues to where they cannot be easily found.
  • NicoJuicy 5y ago
    I do. Because perhaps it's fixed in a newer version or ...
• kenniskrag 5y ago
  I think closed issues shouldn't be a problem on the current release. So why search through them?
  • TeMPOraL 5y ago
    Because - per the pattern of behavior we're discussing in this thread - some developers close old issues, whether they were actually resolved or not, and it's becoming a common practice, particularly with the appearance of bots performing this function automatically. Also, not everyone is using the most recent release.
  • spacechild1 5y ago
    Some issues are not actually bugs but user errors (e.g. because they haven't read the manual). Personally I'm not sure if it's better to close such issues or keep them open with a special label.