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Federated node mapping for mesh networks
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Error messages aren't clear (to everyone) #166

Open thefinn93 opened 11 years ago

thefinn93 commented 11 years ago

From #projectmeshnet:

any idea why i get the error "Error: fromInvalid" trying to send a message on projectmeshnet.org map?

The various other error messages aren't terribly descriptive. The email not sending error like we've had it several times due to various issues with postfix also doesnt say much. It should tell the user what's wrong, and/or possibly what to do about it.

alexander-bauer commented 11 years ago

Pretty much, this boils down to our needing a more descriptive set of error messages to be looked up in the JavaScript. The backend does output relatively nonfriendly error messages, but they're accurate for debugging.

If we put together such a list, then the friendly error message could be displayed prominently, with the technical one below.

On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 12:18:41AM -0700, Finn wrote:

From #projectmeshnet:

any idea why i get the error "Error: fromInvalid" trying to send a message on projectmeshnet.org map?

The various other error messages aren't terribly descriptive. The email not sending error like we've had it several times due to various issues with postfix also doesnt say much. It should tell the user what's wrong, and/or possibly what to do about it.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/ProjectMeshnet/nodeatlas/issues/166

lukevers commented 11 years ago

I'm setting this as high priority and front-end in labels on here. This is really something that needs to be fixed as soon as possible because multiple people have had errors like these.