Comment on Oops, something went wrong!
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Look, the majority of the software is on the server end. Even if they have you a full stack trace, and you understood it, you wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. You want them to give you a way to send in a merge request? I’m sure that would be received here as Google exploiting you for free.
“Majority of software” source your claim.
If you use your computer as a bootloader for Google chrome, maybe. Local software and SASS both benefit from error messages because you cannot assume every error you can do nothing about.
An error about parsing my password and a stack trace? I can possibly deduce to limit the length, remove special characters, or add special characters and try again.
“Something went wrong.” is lazy and nontransparent.
Just 25 years experience developing websites and apps. Websites are thin clients. Every line of JS that executes in your browser is generated by more server side code, and that’s not even to speak of the middle tier and back end. So yeah. A majority of software is not on the client. Unless you’re doing it incredibly wrong.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Just fucking tell me when my adblock is causing you to deny me access, or my connection is too weak/slow. I don’t need a fucking full stack trace.
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“Hey boss? I got a user here who’s blocking our ads and cussing us out.”
“Oh dear. Better give him whatever he wants.”
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, otherwise you won’t have a user because I’ll find a competitor that is actually workable on my system.