"Fool me once Shame on you. Fool me twice Shame on me." --Chinese Proverb.
"Fool me once, shame on ... {404 proverb not found} shame on you. Fool me, can't get fooled again"
The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
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Re: The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
#42Alternate link - http://dob.posterous.com/the-404-test-wildly-brilliant Apparently the blog.dougpetkanics.com DNS may not have propagated yet. Sorry!
your site is showing 404 error too, Maybe even you are testing to to see how many people will click on the link. ;)
Now that many people have clicked on it, he wrote the story?
Re: The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
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Re: The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
#44The author is making the assumption that clicking on the 404 link is correlated with interest in the feature... I'm not sure if that's always the case.
I agree it's not a perfect correlation, but there would be some, most of the time.
Re: The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
#45A solid idea, but why not spend 5 more minutes, make the link point to a page that says "Sorry, we're still working on [feature X]. Check back soon!" and avoid looking like an amateur? Better yet, include a form on that landing page asking how important the feature would be to the user, and get the best of both worlds.
> make the link point to a page that says "Sorry, we're still working on [feature X]. Check back soon!" and avoid looking like an amateur? You've officially missed the point of the article. The argument is not that you look like an amateur, but that the user thinks the problem is with their computer or ISP. Since most 404's are due to user error in URI entry, web filters or cross-site link rot, this is a reasonable a…
I think there is something stunningly wrong with assuming your users are idiots.
Re: The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
#46Re: The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
#47this seems like a really boneheaded idea considering that search engine ranking algorithms penalize broken links
Re: The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
#48Or you could put a simple tracker on the page...I'm surprised that someone there couldn't think of a better approach to web stats than Apache error logs...