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Re:This Message Does Not Exist by femto on Saturday June 01, 2024 @08:42PM (#40550418)
A typical person's head will explode at the mention of the words "cache" and "server". They will then go into a blind panic that their data is going to be "permanently deleted".
Re:This Message Does Not Exist by eviks on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:23AM (#40551330)
Not an issue, replace server with the cloud and remove cache, temporary is fine
Re:This Message Does Not Exist by SoftTalker on Saturday June 01, 2024 @10:19PM (#40550823)
Yeah you can't use words like that. Even many people who won't panic at the word "server" don't really understand what it is.

"This message no longer exists in your Inbox. If you close it, you will not be able to open it again."

What's more amazing is that this state actually happens often enough in Outlook that somebody wrote code to detect it, and to create a message box for the user to warn them about it.

Re:This Message Does Not Exist by chii on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:57AM (#40551485)
every warning or labelling of an issue is because it happened to somebody, and it needed to be prevented.

It's true in the physical world - signs like 'beware of falling pottery' for example. The electronic world is a facsimile of the real world!

Re:This Message Does Not Exist by rovr138 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @08:49PM (#40550452)
"locally", "the cloud"
Re:This Message Does Not Exist by recursive on Saturday June 01, 2024 @11:31PM (#40551119)
Is it local if I stay in the same ZIP code?
Re:This Message Does Not Exist by shnock on Saturday June 01, 2024 @10:34PM (#40550885)
Even that can still be too far. I lean towards “your computer” and “their computer”
Re:This Message Does Not Exist by IshKebab on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:16AM (#40551828)
So what? Most users will understand this or at least get the gist. My mum can ask me what it means and then I can tell her. That's a much better outcome than the original message.
Re:This Message Does Not Exist by smaudet on Friday June 07, 2024 @06:24PM (#40613591)
Wrong.

This is stupid, and you are stupid to entertain this idiotic notion.

Let's take another example:

"The mobility device can no longer operate. Your destination is no longer available."

This tells me absolutely nothing. It possibly even implies that something very bad has happened to my destination!

"The bus engine has broken down. Your route destination is no longer in service."

Even to someone who doesn't know what a "bus", "engine", or a "route" are, this is an actionable and clear message. If I don't know what those things are, I can quickly figure out what a bus, engine and route are, or pass the message to someone who does understand.

Removing information and replacing it with nonsense does not make an error message better. You don't need to be technical to be able to make sense of a message.