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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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This may be useful. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rtxn@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
 

I'm getting this error that says Error. I can't tell if I fat-fingered the community name in the URL, or it got removed, or it doesn't exist in the first place, or maybe there's a legitimate issue with the software, but I hope it's useful!

I need to clarify because some people apparently never encountered the error page: it used to show the actual error. It was later changed to not do that.

(apologies for the atrocious aspect ratio)

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[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Better fit for /c/programmerhumor.

There is nothing maliscious about this. Tons of websites do their own error handling because if they just show 500: Internal Server Error, then they start getting emails from their clients telling them the website hacked their browser. Catching all errors and displaying a generic error message while staying on the same page and keeping the same styling is less scary to non-technical users.

And of course, since all code any developer has ever written is perfect, there is no need to create good error handling that explains the problem in a way that will make it easy to debug.