Error Messages Quality
This cluster focuses on discussions about the quality of error messages in software, with complaints about vague or uninformative errors and calls for more detailed, actionable, and user-friendly messaging.
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hahayeah an error message (or at least a code) might be useful here
i would just like to get error messages that actually said something more than something went wrong. yea, no shit something went wrong, i already know that, but what and why and how do i fix it are questions i want answered. i know the code knows what went wrong, so just tell me.
Are your error messages readable and obviously relevant?
Not to mention the error messages when you get something slightly wrong
About the magic of good error messages (parent comment is good too): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17859210
I work on our error messages, feel free to open an issue and we'll do our best to make it clearer
I can tell you what I miss: really good error messages :)
Errors that were more informative than "Oh u made a boo boo :((" would be useful.
I hope they don't rely on ask it what the error messages mean!
If the error is clear then sure, look at the code. Many people seem to be bad at writing user friendly error messages though, requiring a search for what the message even means.