Tomdroid

the use of Maybe is really horrible

Bug #1068772 reported by David Nielsen on 2012-10-19

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Tomdroid	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned	Tomdroid 0.7.3 "Almost there!"
	Beta	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned	Tomdroid 0.7.3 "Almost there!"

Bug Description

Authorization with %1$s failed. Maybe try again?

Should be

Authorization with %1$s failed. Try again?

Using Maybe is not offering the user an actionable solution..

Didn't succeed, maybe stuff monkeys up your behind?

Stefan Hammer (j-4-deactivatedaccount) on 2012-10-19

Changed in tomdroid:
milestone:	none → 0.7.3
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low

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NoahY (noahy) wrote on 2012-10-21:

I don't know... "maybe" is nice and gives a touch of humanity to the app - reminds me of Eddie from HGTG:

Eddie the Computer: I am pleased to inform you that two nuclear missiles are now headed this way... if you don't mind, I am going to take action.
Zaphod: COMPUTER DO SOMETHING!
Eddie the Computer: Ok, switching to manual mode... good luck!

I'm not sure about the monkeys suggestion... seems ambiguous and is likely to result in questions as to whether they are for sexual pleasure or to prevent constipation. Maybe trying to sync again would be a more useful strategy?

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Stefan Hammer (j-4-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2013-03-10:

I now changed it to a invitation to sync again later:
Authorization with %1$s failed. Try again later!

between the lines there you can still here the word maybe... it's like: try again, maybe it will work then ;-)

do you like it?!

Stefan Hammer (j-4-deactivatedaccount) on 2013-10-24