• Emily (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Having worked on an app that incorporated these kinds of error messages, it’s not about bordem, it’s about not scaring/confusing the user. “Something went wrong and your computer will restart” is more understandable to a layperson, than “Exception: Segmentation Fault”. Usually messages also need to fit within an organisations documented “tone of voice”. Personally, my preference is for friendly text followed by technical details.

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      1 year ago

      That one tweet from years where they said they wanted the error message so they could fix it, like, I don’t think you can fix the thing a team of 500 people has been working on for multiple years from a JavaScript console.