# Removing error message stickers in Pluto.jl

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338>\
**Category:** Pluto\
**Tags:** pluto, plutoui\
**Created:** [January 1, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338 "2025-01-01T13:58:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![hisacro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hisacro/32/202631_2.png) [@hisacro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hisacro)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338/1 "2025-01-01T13:58:08Z")

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Can some point out how to remove these stickers when pluto is throwing errors, I believe newer version started this “feature”

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/8/489888588f68cc09fedb2295da150923a3186d0e.png)

```julia
(@v1.10) pkg> status
Status `~/.julia/environments/v1.10/Project.toml`
 [7f904dfe] PlutoUI v0.7.60
..

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**Author:** ![abraemer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/abraemer/32/51403_2.png) [@abraemer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/abraemer)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338/2 "2025-01-01T14:36:47Z")

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The easiest way is to just a cell that modifies the CSS to hide them. See here:

> <https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/issues/3062#issuecomment-2413987939>
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> \#3040 mentions that motivational words wil be displayed at a low frequency, but …I'm seeing them for 100% of error messages.
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> Could you please add a toggle switch to disable all motivational words? My team prepares Pluto notebooks for users who are not programmers or Julia users, so if an error occurs, they could be confused by the humor or the link to the Julia Discourse

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**Author:** ![g-gundam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/g-gundam/32/47593_2.png) [@g-gundam](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/g-gundam)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338/3 "2025-01-01T19:09:16Z")

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(I liked them.)

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**Author:** ![hisacro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hisacro/32/202631_2.png) [@hisacro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hisacro)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338/4 "2025-01-01T20:37:57Z")

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I have to bear the embarrassment infront of my supervisors : /

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**Author:** ![disberd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@disberd](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/disberd)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338/5 "2025-01-01T22:02:11Z")

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You could probably also use PlutoStyles.jl to disable them more easily for all notebooks you execute on your machine

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**Author:** ![tecosaur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tecosaur/32/23206_2.png) [@tecosaur](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tecosaur)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338/6 "2025-01-01T23:52:12Z")

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Yea, I’m not a fan of these either. I know they’re trying to be supporting, but I can’t help but read them as patronising and getting anoyed by them.

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**Author:** ![cortner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cortner/32/204_2.png) [@cortner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cortner)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338/7 "2025-01-02T01:21:51Z")

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I had very much the same reaction. Also seems unprofessional. This should not be the default.

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**Author:** ![ForceBru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/forcebru/32/21389_2.png) [@ForceBru](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ForceBru)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/removing-error-message-stickers-in-pluto-jl/124338/8 "2025-01-02T12:22:13Z")

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Things I find annoying and unprofessional about Pluto:

- The “computers are hard!”, “this suckz” (?!), “uhmmmmmm??!”, “Maybe time for a break? ☕” and other stickers that randomly pop up alongside error messages are unnecessarily patronizing. You don’t need to tell me computers are hard, man!
- The terminal output with animated scanlines is ugly, distracting and intentionally hard to read. I want to focus on my output, not the (un)funny ha-has.
- The “you need a shiny new browser to run Pluto!” when trying to open a Pluto HTML export in an old browser. Discourse gets it right: it says the browser is unsupported, but still _shows the content_. Can’t Pluto at least show me the raw code in the notebook?
- The “Go to … in your browser to start writing ~ have fun!” I’m not always going to have fun with Pluto; most of the time I’m just trying to do my job and this constantly reminds me that I could be having fun instead. Which is kinda depressing.