I think there are four groups of errors, based on what the user can do
about it:

1. intermittent errors in the AJAX request (network errors, server being
busy)
2. bugs
3. session timeout - user needs to log in again
4. localstorage errors (strict security settings or quota exceeded, or even
no localstorage support at all)

1. and 2. could be covered by something like "there was an error, please
retry and report it if it persists". 3. is very rare and will cease to be
at the next page load so it's probably OK to ignore it.

I'm not sure about 4 - that's something that needs user intervention, and a
source of complaints (there have been reports that it is impossible for
anons to disable Media Viewer, which I suppose is caused by this).
Localstorage settings are a poweruser feature though, not sure how to
communicate about them.
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