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0 pointsmunchlax5mo ago0 comments

Nowadays when this happens it's always something. "Something went wrong."

Even the error message itself is wrong whenever that one appears.

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Displaying and propagating accurate error messages is an entire science unto itself... ...I can see why it's sometimes sensible to invest resource elsewhere and fall back to 'something'.

munchlaxOP5mo ago

IMHO if error handling is rocket science, the error is you

urbandw311er5mo ago

Perhaps you're not handling enough errors ;-)

foobar19625mo ago

I use the term “unexpected error” because if the code got to this alert it wasn’t caught by any traps I’d made for the “expected” errors.

zigzag3125mo ago

Reddit shows:

"Too many requests. Your request has been rate limited, please take a break for a couple minutes and try again."

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsmunchlax5mo ago0 comments

Nowadays when this happens it's always something. "Something went wrong."

Even the error message itself is wrong whenever that one appears.

0 comments

urbandw311er5mo ago

Displaying and propagating accurate error messages is an entire science unto itself... ...I can see why it's sometimes sensible to invest resource elsewhere and fall back to 'something'.

munchlaxOP5mo ago

IMHO if error handling is rocket science, the error is you

urbandw311er5mo ago

Perhaps you're not handling enough errors ;-)

foobar19625mo ago

I use the term “unexpected error” because if the code got to this alert it wasn’t caught by any traps I’d made for the “expected” errors.

zigzag3125mo ago

Reddit shows:

"Too many requests. Your request has been rate limited, please take a break for a couple minutes and try again."

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse