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Re: Slack's 404 page

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For those not in the know, once upon a time a guy named Stewart Butterfield and some friends tried to make a game, called Game Neverending. Somehow they ended up making Flickr instead! Later, he tried again, this time to make a game called Glitch. Again, he failed, and somehow ended up with Slack. That's why Slack's 404 page is like this ("you found a Glitch!"). To further confuse things they sold the name Glitch off…

Lo siento mon frere

That which you seek is no longer there

Re: Slack's 404 page

#53
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$ curl -Is https://slack.com/404 | grep HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found It's still there.

Not in the page body

It's really not that bad. I've seen pages return 200 with a http equiv refresh redirect on all places where 4xx errors and 3xx redirects would be appropriate... that screwed with everything that wasn't a real(-ish) browser.
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