Learn English – Word that means “intentional bug”

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I am wondering if there is a word that essentially means "intentional bug", that the designers or maintainers of the software either introduced knowingly or preserved after recognition of its existence.

Best Answer

I believe it's called "Quirk".

This was widely used in HTML (Quirks Mode) to maintain backwards compatibility with some old web pages: