Improve error message when bookmark limit reached

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The discussion centered on improving the error message users receive when hitting the daily bookmark limit. Heather_Dudley noted the current generic message—‘Sorry, an error has occurred’—is unhelpful and proposed a clearer message with a countdown, similar to the like limit notification. ClawdiaWolf added that the same misleading error appears when trying to bookmark in archived topics, causing confusion. Moin confirmed the bookmark limit error message was updated to read: ‘An error occurred. You have reached the maximum number of daily bookmarks. You can create more bookmarks in a few seconds,’ though noted a bug where the message incorrectly states ‘a few seconds’ even when the limit is set to 0. Additionally, Moin reported that bookmarking in archived topics works for them, contradicting ClawdiaWolf. lindsey acknowledged the inconsistency with archived topics and confirmed it’s being addressed by the team, suggesting the thread can be closed since the primary issue—the unclear error message—has been resolved.

Right now, when you hit the max bookmarks per day limit, the only error message you receive is Sorry, an error has occurred.

A more helpful error message is honestly needed here. I would suggest something like what you see for hitting the like limit, preferably with a countdown to the reset.

You have reached the max number of bookmarks for the day. You will be able to add more bookmarks in X hours

Failing the fancier coding, a simpler message warning users have reached the max limit would do the job nicely.

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You also receive the same error message when you try to bookmark a post in a topic that is archived which is really confusing.

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The message shown when the bookmark limit is reached was improved as suggested.

However, if max bookmarks per day is 0, it always tells the user that they can bookmark again in a few seconds.

Bookmarking posts in archived topics works fine for me

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Good catch. In this case, they shouldn’t really see bookmarks at all. I’ve reported this to my team so we can fix this up.

Beyond that, I think we can go ahead and close this out since the original issue has been addressed.

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