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> Many “Oopsie woopsie”-style errors are a fallback message that appears in unexpected errors - since the developer doesn’t expect it to happen, it could be dan
by kmoser 1y ago
> Many “Oopsie woopsie”-style errors are a fallback message that appears in unexpected errors - since the developer doesn’t expect it to happen, it could be dangerous to reveal application context as part of the error.
In my experience most of those "oopsie woopsie" error messages are an attempt to seem less techie and/or lack of desire to provide meaningful information to the user.
The main thing users really want to know: did they mess up, or did the system mess up? And what should they do next: try again? Contact support? That basic information is not only usually lacking, but providing it to the user would not threaten system security.
- recursivecaveat 1y agoIt's kind of sad that every computer user has to learn that when they click a link to "example.com/news/2003-07-14/update/very-long-base64-encoded-string", the very patronizing error message accusing them of making a typo just means that the site deleted the content, but is too embarrassed to admit they do that kind of thing.