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+name: Trouble shooting and programming help
+about: "Please use StackOverflow instead \U0001F600 "
+title: ''
+labels: Trouble-shooting
+assignees: ''
+
+---
+
+General programming issues and problems will reach a much wider audience at StackOverflow, we suggest you ask them there. This will offload our work with maintaining the library, and make sure you get help as fast as possible.
+
+Tag the question with `java`, `javax-imageio` and/or `twelvemonkeys` and we'll find them there.