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This may be useful.
(thelemmy.club)
I'm getting this error that says Error. I can't tell if I fat-fingered the community name in the URL, or it got removed, or it doesn't exist in the first place, or maybe there's a legitimate issue with the software, but I hope it's useful!
I need to clarify because some people apparently never encountered the error page: it used to show the actual error. It was later changed to not do that.
(apologies for the atrocious aspect ratio)
Better fit for /c/programmerhumor.
There is nothing maliscious about this. Tons of websites do their own error handling because if they just show 500: Internal Server Error, then they start getting emails from their clients telling them the website hacked their browser. Catching all errors and displaying a generic error message while staying on the same page and keeping the same styling is less scary to non-technical users.
And of course, since all code any developer has ever written is perfect, there is no need to create good error handling that explains the problem in a way that will make it easy to debug.