diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bugs.md b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bugs.md
index cf33acd5..60dc4ba0 100644
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bugs.md
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bugs.md
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ If the bug is not trivial to reproduce on any platform, please include ALL the s
 to reliably duplicate it, on a vanilla, generic install of macOS, Windows, OpenBSD or Ubuntu Linux
 system, in their most current version.
 
+If you don't have any clear understanding of the issue or can't enumerate the steps to
+reproduce it, open a discussion instead:
+https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/discussions
 
 
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