23 October 2005
Misc. links
This blog post is
12 years old! Most likely, its content is outdated.
Especially if it's technical.
Yes, Pandora is great but it too can make mistakes. All software make mistakes. When that happens it's important that you deal with the mistake/error in a constructive manner. Firstly you have to have your debugging tools set up to alert the developer(s) of the error with full details and correct integrity and secondly you need to report back to the innocent user a message (and in some cases a good plan of action for the user to take).
Pandora seemed to be struggling today when I started it and since I haven't seen that before I took a screenshot of the error message and here I write about it.
What's good about this error message?
- it's honest ("We're having unexpected technical difficulties")
- it's informative with a twist (they're informing the user about what they're doing about it with a comical twist "scrambling to fix things")
- it's instructive ("Please try again later")
- Previous:
- Pandora - a great Internet radio
21 October 2005
- Next:
- Shane's Bit Mountain
25 October 2005
- Related:
- Careful with your assertRaises() and inheritance of exceptions
10 April 2013
- Now I'm on Last.fm
30 October 2007
- Internet Radio - Day of Silence
26 June 2007
- Squeezebox + Pandora
08 March 2006
- Pandora Update
14 November 2005
- Pandora - a great Internet radio
21 October 2005
- Interesting NHS error message
21 July 2005
Yes, Pandora is great but it too can make mistakes. All software make mistakes. When that happens it's important that you deal with the mistake/error in a constructive manner. Firstly you have to have your debugging tools set up to alert the developer(s) of the error with full details and correct integrity and secondly you need to report back to the innocent user a message (and in some cases a good plan of action for the user to take).