[flutas]

I agree, I really long for the days of simple "there was an error" messages. This trend of "you bwoke us" or "OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!" messages is infuriating to me even more than a simple error.

[TheNewsIsHere]

I intentionally write boring, plain English, mostly painfully bland error messages for this exact reason.

I long for the intellectual honestly and emotional sturdiness of “Error 123 in Handler XYZ. You should never see this.”

[codetrotter]

Reddit error pages are not following any kind of trend. They’ve been like that since for ever. No reason to get upset.

[boneitis]

Following the trend, trend setting, been like that since for ever, or something else: name it what you will. Whatever it is, I'd certainly call out the presence of a (less than welcome, imo) trend.

[hanspeter]

If Reddit didn't follow this trend, they created it.

The tongue in cheek communication and cute illustrations on error pages started with web 2.0 and is now so prevalent that a regular system error message is a refreshing experience.