I got a 502 error here on Meta today. Apart from the pop up, I didn’t notice any unexpected behavior. I am not really sure what caused this, and I am not consistently able to reproduce it, but I was able to trigger it a few times.
Here is what I did:
- I used the + in the sidebar to open the DM chat with someone I talked to before but who is currently not in my sidebar.
- I used the full-screen chat button.
- I changed the size of the browser window so it was smaller.
- I made the browser window full screen again.
- I switched from full-screen chat back to the small chat window.
- About 7 seconds later, I saw
The browser console showed:
That’s all I have. I hope someone can make more of it than I can. If it helps, I have a video showing how I reproduced this.



