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"12 old crickets buzz happily"

Are they happy because they made the program crash?

Apparently there are at least two neg voters who think that showing an error message that something is "happy" when the app crashes to John Q. User is a good idea.

Asana breaks so frequently that their users will not be particularly frightened even if they changed their error messages to dirty limericks and communist propaganda.

It's pretty good about not losing data, so the several-times-a-day crashes are more of an annoyance than anything else, and their UI is the nicest I've used, but they still need to work on being more stable than Windows 95.

I wasn't so keen on the idea until you mentioned "dirty limericks and communist propaganda". I could be mollified after a crash if I read "This software refuses to comply with the oppression of the proletariat by the boss classes. Bug reports are bourgeois revisionism! Revolution is the only solution! There was a young fellow from Buckingham..."

I'd be waiting for a "10 green bottles hanging wall" error.

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