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+Issues are for **concrete, actionable bugs and feature requests** only - if you're just asking for debugging help or technical support we have to direct you elsewhere. If you just have questions or support requests please use:
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+- Stack Overflow
+- The Django Users mailing list django-users@googlegroups.com (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-users)
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+We have to limit this because of limited volunteer time to respond to issues!
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+Please also try and include, if you can:
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+- Your OS and runtime environment, and browser if applicable
+- A `pip freeze` output showing your package versions
+- What you expected to happen vs. what actually happened
+- How you're running Channels (runserver? daphne/runworker? Nginx/Apache in front?)
+- Console logs and full tracebacks of any errors