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Help Your Fellow Developers with Well-Worded Error Messages
- sofaofthedamned 10y agoEasily Googlable error messages are the best. Put site specific stuff like hostnames at the front or end with a unique error code that you can search for. Then never change this message, ever.
- cableshaft 10y agoUm...most of the time, I'd be happy to even get the first error message he left. It at least gives a starting point. All too often I get a 'Error loading' or 'Should never get here' or the same error repeated in ten different locations and have to hunt things down.