On: Feynman’s Razor

[smitty1e]

A better phrasing might be "keep your local copy because your server-side copy is gone".

Communication is hard.

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[marcosdumay → smitty1e]

That's not a better phrasing. That doesn't explain what happened at all.

If you think that's a sensible recommendation, it's nice to add it after the error message. But it's not an error message.

[smitty1e → marcosdumay]

That is a fair cop.