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Comment by sli

16 days ago

Every single website on the internet just says "whoopsie doodle, me made an oopsie" instead of just telling me what the problem is. This so-called mistake is so widespread that it has been the standard for at least a decade.

I agree it's a mistake, but I don't believe that it's viewed that way by anyone making the decision to do it.

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oldestofsports  16 days ago

You dont expose error details to the user for security reasons, even though it does indeed make the user experience worse.

  • falcor84  16 days ago

    I understand not exposing a full stack trace, but I don't see any excuse to not even expose a googleable error code. If me having an error code makes your product insecure, then you have a much bigger problem.