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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are so many microservices everywhere with different teams responsible, that if just one team doesn't forward errors properly it is messed up.
Integration tests are a thing.
You mean e2e from mobile app? Because they would have to be able to trigger those failure situations from all layers of microservices for which they have no control over.
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#223IF you try to recover your password you will receive the exact auth code each time that you request it.
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#224This should be considered an act of war.
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#225It logged me out and told me that my credentials were incorrect; I thought my credentials had been stolen, so I'm kinda personally glad that it seems to be happening to a lot of other people too. I know that's a bit selfish, but :shrug:
Same same. I went through the password reset flow (I was overdue anyways), it never sent anything to my SMS, so I did it again with email, reset the password and went to log in with the new password, "Incorrect password" error. Old password, also incorrect. Didn't help that I had just posted a lukewarm spicy take on how linguistic prescriptivism is BS. All the while the website felt like it was unstable, hard to desc…
Discord is also having issues.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've seen this posted everywhere like it's some grand conspiracy. What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?
Social Media is very successful in Get Out the Vote campaigns for younger people - who typically vote for one party disproportionately.
This would be a point for sure, except this is a primary and the only people who can vote in it are registered party members. Young people actually registered already care enough to know it's the primary today.
This one is already decided though. Biden on the Democrat side, Trump on the Republican. If anything it might hurt the Trump side a bit, as people may not realize that the Supreme Court only yesterday ruled states can not block him.
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#227And rather than an indication that it is not working, I was just told to login again; since the attempts were unsuccessful, I was led to reset my password. Now I have no clue if the password has been reset properly or an old one is used, or login with google is used, or if I will continue to be logged out after they fix stuff. If your service is down, please say "my service is down".
I lament the fact error messages are rarely, if ever, displayed anymore. Just a generic message in its place, usually not even indicating whether it's a 'you' problem or a 'them' problem :(
Yeah, but at least it's a bit understandable that its changed in that direction, and usually you can get a developer-friendly error message if you look at the HTTP responses in the devtools.
I remember one time a company I worked at received a support message where the title was (paraphrased) "DONT HURT MY CHILDREN" from some person who saw an error message saying something about "couldn't dispose of child" or something similar, when the frontend broke. "Child/children" being kind of common in programming, I'm sure others faced similar scenarios.
I'm not sure if they were genuinely scared or just decided to have some fun with us while reporting the issue, but after that we made the error messages even more generic, so nothing could be misunderstood.
I guess it is this quest to not alienate the lowest common denominator that is the reason behind the stupidification of error messages. On one hand, people won't get scared, on the other hand, people get less context about why the error happened in the first place.
Wonder how many of the average users actually care?
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#228It appears to be more than Meta, lots of things are showing a spike in reports, including AWS.
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Meta doesn't do that. For one thing, "Patch Tuesday" is a Windows thing, and 0% of production traffic is served from Windows there. For another, they are constantly and always redeploying. More likely that someone bungled a deploy of user auth. No doubt they are rolling back as we speak.
More likely that someone bungled a deploy of user auth
How would that affect YouTube?
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#230Special bonus: today is Super Tuesday, which is when a large number of US states have their primary elections.
I'm sure people will be able to vote even if their vacation pictures are unavailable
Did they imply anything as ridiculous as needing facebook to vote?
The implication is merely that everyone would otherwise have been talking about voting and the results, ie, simply higher than normal traffic. (I'm not sure it would be that much but that was the reasonable interpretation of the comment.)