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[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 months ago (6 children)

whoa there pardner

People who write "funny" error messages should be tied to a tree and have old circut boards thrown at their feet

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

everything about that error page is Toxic AF

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Oopsie woopsie!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why do only the first half of the paragraphs start with a capital too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If there's one thing I learned working in IT it's that devs actively half-ass their error messages, routinely misspell critical words you're gonna grep for in logs, and never even consider having someone in Product read over customer-facing error messages like this. All they see is a Jira ticket that says "include the following verbiage in the VPN rejection message" that was typed up by a mostly plastered PM one afternoon after they downed 3 margaritas at "lunch" at the taqueria next to their office. And then they just copy and paste that shit into whatever bullshit HTML template took the least effort to find.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Error pages are a point where something bad happened, so the user is already in a bad mood. A shitty joke just makes the situation worse.

The only time I can remember enjoying novelty error messages is for 404 not found pages. It's usually stuff like the Google T-Rex thing, or I've seen an astronaut floating in space, stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes fucking please