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I think prefixing with "sorry," is a good idea but I really hate cutesy error messages. I feel the Chrome dinosaur kicked those off, and I do (did?) like the d
by bjackman 3y ago
I think prefixing with "sorry," is a good idea but I really hate cutesy error messages.
I feel the Chrome dinosaur kicked those off, and I do (did?) like the dino. But "it's not you, it's us" is very annoying. "We made a booboo UwU".
When something has gone wrong I really don't want to feel I'm being marketed to, I just want information!
- Stratoscope 3y agoOne of the worst - I don't know if it's still there - was a Gmail message something like "Hooray! Your inbox is empty." Well that's great if you worship Inbox Zero. But what about me? Maybe I'm anxiously waiting for news on a family member's illness and hospitalization. Maybe I'm waiting for my lawyer to get back to me on an important case. It's not hard to imagine any number of circumstances where I would not say "hooray!" when I see my inbox is empty.
- agos 3y agohooray! your sysadmin botched the migration and your mail is all gone!
- flatcakes 3y agoSame with slack when it congratulates you for catching up on messages. Each app/service assumes you are able to take the afternoon off if you happen to have 0 widgets in your widget list.
- arccy 3y agoit congratulates you for not having a pile of unknowns, not that you have nothing to do
- Too 3y agoI believe the hooray is only presented that way in the spam folder.
- nindalf 3y agoI think the canonical cutesy error message is > OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this! (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oopsie-woopsie https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oopsie-woopsie)
- EvanAnderson 3y agoA thousand times this. Cutesy error messages make me feel like the developer doesn't take my use of the product seriously. It's wildly unprofessional.