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> The problem with notification only of failure is that one is left uncertain about success

But that's less a problem with getting notified or not, and more a problem with software not doing what you've told it to do.



That's the problem of whether the developer and the user have the same expectation of the max duration or timeout of an action. For example a developer might default all backend actions to have a timeout of 30 seconds. But as a user, if the action succeeds quickly (the usual case) I want to immediately see a confirmation of that. I don't want to wait 30 seconds just to see no notification about any failure.




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