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How it started vs. How it's going (lemmings.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think it was some XMPP related server I ran quite a few years ago which had 'i_have_read_the_manual = 0' or something similar buried into default configuration file. And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.

Maybe we need more things like that.

[–] ohshit604 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

And it would just silently exit if that variable was not set properly.

Would’ve used that debug log to scold the end-user. “If you’ve actually read the first 3 lines of the documentation you wouldn’t be seeing this.”