One of my top 5 pet peeves in IT: humanizing software.

  • Destide
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    8224 days ago

    Notice all the information you get so you can resolve the issue…

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      24 days ago

      The infantilization of error messages annoys me to no end. Sure Error: exception FF02345A0 in module flarghbhgy.py is not immediately helpful, but at least it allows me to search for a solution or a cause. Recently though, a frighteningly large portion of software developers decided for some reason that Oopsie poopsie, someone made a boo boo is a better error message, especially if it’s accompanied by a cute whimsical image of a kitten or some shit…

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        4924 days ago

        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!

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        23 days ago

        I don’t mind a whoops somebody fucked right up error message if you let me click a button for more details. Or at the very least, give me a reference number I can tell somebody about. Some “software companies” don’t even properly log things on their end so nobody can solve shit.

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        324 days ago

        sometimes they don’t even store logs so you can’t do shit even if you were focused on just fixing this shit