Sounds like a “temporary” error message.
Willing to bet that the backend that they are using doesn’t actually give any useful error messages.
Why use many words when few do trick but for system logs.
Looks up error EC10005…
“Network failed to do network thing”
Ok…
Network failed because net didnt work.
Tbf if the client fails to reach the server, there isn’t much more detail they can provide. At least it brings a little levity
The network… In the cloud… It does mysterious things!
I can just imagine something in the middle being like
`We couldn't log you in because ${getReason(e) || 'the network failed to do its network thing'}.`100% this is what happened. Also, it’s its not it’s, right?
it’s its not it’s, right?
I always get tripped up on this case. What’s shown in the picture is correct, though you’re applying the rules of English grammar very logically, the apostrophe in
it'sis only for contraction, not possession. That may go out the window if someone uses it as a pronoun though, idk.
If all the corporations can just stop trying to be cute in their error messages, that would be great. This is literally worse than “ERROR: Unknown Error” because this goes out of its way to taunt you while still giving you no actionable information.
I will say that at least it has an error code. So you can actually look it up
I see nothing wrong with it
How can the client know the back end issue
And
What’s the point of giving it to the end user
Any fix would be the user contacting the company and the error code is there. Follow ups would be a traceroute
Depends if this cure message is a psuedonym for the real message. Kind of you have a different quip for each one, then reporting it the Devs will know what the issue is but any bad actors won’t be able to try and discern cause and effect from any exploits they are trying (or at least make it harder)
security through obscurity is not security.
Didn’t say it was the best practice, but it is a practice
I’d like that to be an acceptable autoreply to all the mails from my boss.
All my error messages are haikus.
I feel like this takes the edge off of getting an error. Or, maybe it makes it worse. I like to think it’s more calming.
In code, a misstep, Life’s work fades into the void, Silent echoes mourn.
Yeah, that was nice. Definitely more calming.
We couldn’t log in.
Net didn’t do network thing.
Please try again soon.
Keys not aligning,
Username, password astray,
Entry gate stays closed.
at least theres an error code?
Wibbly-wobbly nerky-networky things
