# Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun?

**URL:** <https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/why-cant-error-messages-be-fun/205>\
**Category:** blog\
**Created:** [March 10, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/why-cant-error-messages-be-fun/205 "2009-03-10T00:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 10

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/user_avatar/discourse.codinghorror.com/codinghorror/32/36371_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/why-cant-error-messages-be-fun/205/195 "2020-05-31T20:31:51Z")

</div>

Thanks for bumping this topic at least – there was quite a bit of old spam to clean up! Chrome was a new thing in 2009, and it is currently a much more mature browser here in 2020…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/user_avatar/discourse.codinghorror.com/codinghorror/32/36371_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/why-cant-error-messages-be-fun/205/196 "2025-01-07T06:39:09Z")

</div>



---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![JimPas](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/user_avatar/discourse.codinghorror.com/jimpas/32/76163_2.png) [@JimPas](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/JimPas)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/why-cant-error-messages-be-fun/205/197 "2025-05-18T16:57:47Z")

</div>



[Previous page](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/why-cant-error-messages-be-fun/205.md?page=9)