Never forget that they took away our moving progress bars w/ descriptions of the task being performed at each stage and gave us shitty spinning circles.
A spinning circle requires just two threads, one to do the work and one to spin the circle. And they don’t have to talk to each other.
A progress bar is the same thing, but now the work thread has to periodically communicate the progress to the bar thread, and inter-thread synchronization has to be setup. And how do you know how much progress a single file transfer represents? Or how many progress points is a registry edit versus a file transfer? It’s hard to figure out in advance, which is why so many progress bars are shitty estimates of progress.
Needed to add my phone number for 2FA on a website. Something went wrong :( checked network tab and the error being returned from the API was too short phone number, they’d made an assumption based on the country they were from.
I still had to message their support to let them know, but… They could’ve made it easier to find out the reason at least.
Error messages when I was growing up:
Network Error: TCP protocol not installed.Error messages now:
Something went wrong. :(Never forget that they took away our moving progress bars w/ descriptions of the task being performed at each stage and gave us shitty spinning circles.
We used to progress, now we get fucked around.
A spinning circle requires just two threads, one to do the work and one to spin the circle. And they don’t have to talk to each other.
A progress bar is the same thing, but now the work thread has to periodically communicate the progress to the bar thread, and inter-thread synchronization has to be setup. And how do you know how much progress a single file transfer represents? Or how many progress points is a registry edit versus a file transfer? It’s hard to figure out in advance, which is why so many progress bars are shitty estimates of progress.
I’ll just check the logs then…
The logs:
Exactly. That second example infuriates me. Just give me something to troubleshoot, for fuck’s sake.
It infuriates me because it’s disrespectful. The message insinuates that I wouldn’t be able to figure it out.
Needed to add my phone number for 2FA on a website. Something went wrong :( checked network tab and the error being returned from the API was too short phone number, they’d made an assumption based on the country they were from.
I still had to message their support to let them know, but… They could’ve made it easier to find out the reason at least.