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Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by im2w1l »

kodis wrote: post #5

Funny stuff. What I find surprising is that these error pages are on the web site of Bloomberg news, a fairly serious and straight laced operation.

Interestingly, it seems the 404 varies with the url: http://www.bloomberg.com/a http://www.bloomberg.com/news/a/ http://www.bloomberg.com/v

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by toddsiegel »

Maybe I am no fun, but I find this error page disorienting and a little disturbing.

Errors pages mean you've probably messed up somehow and are associated with user frustration. This page, and the other Bloomberg error pages posted in the comments, do not help to mitigate that.

Github does a nice job of walking the line of cutesy, but useful error pages. But then again, who doesn't love Octocat?

https://github.com/404 https://github.com/500

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Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by worldsayshi »

desuvader wrote: post #4
xmjee wrote: post #2

How very nice that the top item of HackerNews is a 404 page.

No fun allowed >;(

Rather no pointless content allowed. I'd say that the level of fun shouldn't decide wether it should be on hacker news at all. Unless it's the "meaningful" kind of fun.

If it's the meaningless kind of fun together with meaningful content, then it should be judged by the meaningfulness.

These are the rules that I just made up. Let it be so.

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