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The problem with writing user friendly error messages is in a lot of cases you have no idea what context they'll show in. I mean, do you think they could have predicted yesterday's particular problem at Fastly?

Better to give some plain debug info than tell the user "have you tried turning it off and on again?" in my opinion.



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