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Errmojis

Users have a hard time dealing with errors.

To solve that, put these emojis prominently in your error messages. Then when the user says:

I dont know what happened but I saw a christmas tree and then everything stopped working

You'll know it was an internal error!

emoji error
๐ŸŽ„ internal error
๐Ÿ• timed out
โ˜ƒ๏ธ permissions error
๐Ÿ” input was malformed
๐ŸŒˆ not enough resources
๐Ÿ’ the resource is locked
๐ŸŽฉ rate limit exceeded
๐ŸŒฎ unhandled exception
๐Ÿ„ user must authenticate first
๐Ÿ• item or resource not found
๐ŸŽˆ invalid method or function
๐ŸŽฑ there was a conflict in the data
๐ŸŒญ method not yet implemented
๐Ÿฆ† upstream error
๐Ÿฆ‹ configuration error
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tmcw commented Oct 15, 2017

Maybe too on the nose, but ๐ŸŒ for timed out... ๐Ÿ” for resource locked?

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