scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

I’m not done but I’m so tired of just stupid error messages that don’t help from developers. I love the open source community but for gods sake devs, handle your errors in a format that makes sense.

Nextcloud or others, it’s always the same. I either get a 200 line stacktrace that means absolutely nothing to me because the dev didn’t bother to handle the exception (like you submit a form and get a null reference back. It sure would be nice to know what field was null) or of course the infamous “Exception occurred” and nothing else.

My favorite was I tried to submit to Jellyfin a fix for one of their very opaque exceptions, keep the stack trace but rewrite the error message like “x exception occurred, do you have permissions to do that?” Or something and the PR was rejected. I just can’t even with that

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