When #253 was implemented it made it so that when prev/next or dot buttons were used it would pause the slider. Unless I am mistaken, there is currently no alternative to this.
I think as an alternative - a setting called pauseOnInteract which is set to true by default would be useful. If it is set to false, the slider would instead reset the interval timer instead of pausing the slider completely.
I believe this is what #314 was attempting to address - but isn't a bug per-se.