I've been looking for open-source bounties to work on, and I kept running into the same problem: bounty aggregator sites (Algora, IssueHunt) show a listing with a "Funded" badge and a dollar amount, but the listing itself doesn't tell you if the bounty is actually still alive.
I spent close to an hour manually checking issues by hand before I noticed the pattern. Some examples from that hour:
An issue with a $22 badge that had already been closed months ago.
A $42 bounty on a repo that's now archived — meaning a PR literally cannot be merged there, no matter what the issue page says.
IssueHunt's own issues board, which still renders years-old bounties as "Funded" — its footer reads "© 2019 BoostIO, Inc." It isn't being kept in sync with real issue/repo state.
