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Notice all the information you get so you can resolve the issue...
The infantilization of error messages annoys me to no end. Sure Error: exception FF02345A0 in module flarghbhgy.py is not immediately helpful, but at least it allows me to search for a solution or a cause. Recently though, a frighteningly large portion of software developers decided for some reason that Oopsie poopsie, someone made a boo boo is a better error message, especially if it's accompanied by a cute whimsical image of a kitten or some shit...
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Exactly. I'm almost fucking fifty, maybe that's why I find this patronizing tone so annoying, get off my lawn and all... ;)
Hahahahaaha
I will put this error verbatim in one of my projects
I'm stealing that one. 🤣
"This shouldn't happen"
A lot of this came out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Make_Me_Think which a lot of dumb UX people took to the worst extreme to be like “dumb idiot user should only get one button ever”
The power button?
I don't mind a whoops somebody fucked right up error message if you let me click a button for more details. Or at the very least, give me a reference number I can tell somebody about. Some "software companies" don't even properly log things on their end so nobody can solve shit.
sometimes they don't even store logs so you can't do shit even if you were focused on just fixing this shit