this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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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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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.