At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.

  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    whoa there pardner

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

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        7 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.

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      7 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.