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I'm from that age too, but it groomed me to cringe when a $XXM international corporate brand tries to be casual and fun. It doesn't feel authentic. It doesn't f

I'm from that age too, but it groomed me to cringe when a $XXM international corporate brand tries to be casual and fun. It doesn't feel authentic. It doesn't feel like it speaks from some relaxed, hacker culture at Mozilla. It feels like somebody in a designer hoodie with an ocean view conference room wants to brand Firefox as the fun alternative. It only makes me miss those old days more.

Animats 4y ago
"It feels like somebody in a designer hoodie with an ocean view conference room wants to brand Firefox as the fun alternative." Ah, you've seen the view from their SF offices.[1] [1] https://earth.google.com/web/search/@37.78972221,-122.38883379,6.18718652a,0d,60y,68.37953972h,102.90272175t,0r https://earth.google.com/web/search/@37.78972221,-122.388833...
staticassertion 4y ago
The only time I've seen a cute error added it was an engineer who just wanted to add some playfulness to the product.
bigDinosaur 4y ago
My memory of the 'old days' was that instead of a tab crash, the whole browser would crash, and instead of a helpful error, you'd be forced to terminate the process and get some generic Windows error feedback prompt. I suppose that was real hacker culture? Either way, I don't mind cutesy messages so long as they contain at least a code which can be traced back to wherever an exception was thrown or whatever. The main problem is generic error messages which are a problem whether they're cutesy or not ('an error has occurred').
- jen20 4y ago
  Not at all - real hackers were not using windows obviously!
  - lamontcg 4y ago
    Guru Meditation 0000010x48454c50
- RhysU 4y ago
  Cutesy messages imply that software can be no better. Oops, as a bunch of well-payed professionals we messed up but look at the thought that went into the copy that covers our butts...? When software fails we failed. Stop with the lipstick on our collective incompetence.

Animats 4y ago

"It feels like somebody in a designer hoodie with an ocean view conference room wants to brand Firefox as the fun alternative." Ah, you've seen the view from their SF offices.[1] [1] https://earth.google.com/web/search/@37.78972221,-122.38883379,6.18718652a,0d,60y,68.37953972h,102.90272175t,0r https://earth.google.com/web/search/@37.78972221,-122.388833...

staticassertion 4y ago

The only time I've seen a cute error added it was an engineer who just wanted to add some playfulness to the product.

bigDinosaur 4y ago

My memory of the 'old days' was that instead of a tab crash, the whole browser would crash, and instead of a helpful error, you'd be forced to terminate the process and get some generic Windows error feedback prompt. I suppose that was real hacker culture? Either way, I don't mind cutesy messages so long as they contain at least a code which can be traced back to wherever an exception was thrown or whatever. The main problem is generic error messages which are a problem whether they're cutesy or not ('an error has occurred').

jen20 4y ago
Not at all - real hackers were not using windows obviously!
- lamontcg 4y ago
  Guru Meditation 0000010x48454c50
RhysU 4y ago
Cutesy messages imply that software can be no better. Oops, as a bunch of well-payed professionals we messed up but look at the thought that went into the copy that covers our butts...? When software fails we failed. Stop with the lipstick on our collective incompetence.