Hoh man what a journey. And I love that this incredibly complex situation is the only reason that status would return. What a fun time debugging that would have been
The type of error where you have to give up trying to understand the user.
It’s quite simple actually: The user wanted to delete their account, but forgot their password so they requested a password reset. Before the password reset email was delivered, the user remembered their password and deleted their account. The password reset email is finally delivered and apparently some email clients open all the links in the background for whatever reason, so it wasn’t actually the user who clicked the password reset link.
apparently some email clients open all the links in the background for whatever reason
What? Really??
Not really the only reason. It would be better to just return “token invalid”.
It could occur by someone messing with the URL from the reset password email, like accidently adding an extra character before pressing enter
Or a poor email client that wraps the URL and doesn’t send the complete one when clicked.
Or someone attempting to find a weakness in the reset password system and sending junk as the token.
I might be the one hitting that link just to see what happens.
At my job, we have an error code that is similar to this. On the frontend, it’s just like error 123.
But in our internal error logs, it’s because the user submitted their credit card, didnt fully confirm, press back, removed all the items out of their cart, removed their credit card, then found their way back to the submit button through the browser history and attempted to submit without a card or a cart. Nothing would submit and no error was shown, but it was UI error.
It’s super convoluted. And we absolutely wanted to shoot the tester who gave us this use case.
And we absolutely wanted to shoot the tester who gave us this use case.
Why? Because he tested well and broke the software? A user changing their mind during a guided activity absolutely is a valid use case.
I think they meant shoot in like a friendly way. You know, happiness bullets!
This makes want to become a tester. It scratches my evil itch just the way I like it.
there’s three qualifications to being a testor:
Finding stupid ways to break shit, Being able to accurately explain how you broke shit, and being likeable enough that breaking their shit doesn’t make the devs angry.
Being able to accurately explain how you broke shit
This is the most important part. Or look at systems like SpiffingBrit and Josh (Let’s Game it Out) look at games
How’d they know it was a he
Maybe there’s a specific person who keeps doing this and they wrote this error specifically for him.
You bitwise OR into the higher end bits the user id, in which you have already encoded the user’s gender. (For which you have a util method to extract. )
Now the dev doesn’t need to comment this part of the code, saves him time.
