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-If you're reporting a bug, make sure you can reproduce it with the very latest, bleeding-edge version of Hy from the `master` branch on GitHub. Bugs in stable versions of Hy are fixed on `master` before the fix makes it into a new stable release. You can delete this text after reading it.
+Hy's issue list is for bugs, complaints, and feature requests.
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+For help with Hy, ask on our IRC channel (may take up to a day), Stack Overflow with the `[hy]` tag, or on our mailing list.
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+If you're reporting a bug, make sure you can reproduce it with the very latest, bleeding-edge version of Hy from the `master` branch on GitHub. Bugs in stable versions of Hy are fixed on `master` before the fix makes it into a new stable release.
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+You can delete this text after reading it.