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 |
|---|---|
| 🎄 | internal error |
| 🍕 | timed out |
| ☃️ | permissions error |
| 🍔 | input was malformed |
| 🌈 | not enough resources |
| 🐒 | the resource is locked |
| 🎩 | rate limit exceeded |
| 🌮 | unhandled exception |
| 🍄 | user must authenticate first |
| 🐕 | item or resource not found |
| 🎈 | invalid method or function |
| 🎱 | there was a conflict in the data |
| 🌭 | method not yet implemented |
| 🦆 | upstream error |
| 🦋 | configuration error |
Maybe too on the nose, but 🐌 for timed out... 🔐 for resource locked?