Is there a good word or phrase that one could use in place of "the user"?

I'm writing a git commit, and the phrase "report the error back to the user" is making me a little uneasy for some reason.

It's probably the past 50+ years of snotty developers(*) and sysadmins looking down on the people that they're running the computing systems for. Or am I just being too sensitive?

(*) Includes me. Sorry.

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