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Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

#31

I wasn't expecting to find this on the front page considering they've been floating around Twitter/etc for over a week. But I'll certainly make use of the opportunity to say the new site is entirely Node based and the team is interested in hiring more good Node devs in NYC. Contact me if interested, email in profile!

This is the framework the site is running on: https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

#33
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.

My guess is that it's a web developer who really wanted to do something amusing and was only allowed to do it on the error pages.

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

#34
post #11
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

The first and last of those are likely Apache returning errors. Its definitely not expected behavior.

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

#35
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.

My guess is that it's a web developer who really wanted to do something amusing and was only allowed to do it on the error pages.

It's @joshuatopolsky http://bit.ly/1vfVRV3

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

#36

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/40…

If I tilt my iPad the sign on that 500 page moves...

Mouse movement over the graphic does it on desktop too, fyi

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

#37
Since we're talking about 404s, are there best practices for orienting users? I have a site with 1-2 major resources.

Does it make sense to say something like:

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Maybe you were looking for:

Resource 1 Resource 2

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