Every single website on the internet just says "whoopsie doodle, me made an oopsie" instead of just telling me what the problem is. This so-called mistake is so widespread that it has been the standard for at least a decade.

I agree it's a mistake, but I don't believe that it's viewed that way by anyone making the decision to do it.

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oldestofsports 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You dont expose error details to the user for security reasons, even though it does indeed make the user experience worse.

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falcor84 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I understand not exposing a full stack trace, but I don't see any excuse to not even expose a googleable error code. If me having an error code makes your product insecure, then you have a much bigger problem.

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teaearlgraycold 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I show the stack trace on AGPL projects. Why hide what they can already see for themselves?

	▲	falcor84 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The reason I see is that it might expose the value of secret keys or other sensitive variables. But if you are certain it won't happen, then yes