The Financial Times’ 404 page • Hacker News Board

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by pepoluan » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 1:59 PM UTC

scaglio wrote: post #81

I too inserted a themed-joke in my personal website with short stories: https://crooked.ink/notfound I really do like funny 404 pages, they add something unique to the browsing experience.

Half expecting "It's dark here. You're about to be eaten by a grue."

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by davidjytang » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 3:49 PM UTC

thicknavyrain wrote: post #76

davidjytang wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First time seeing my name here. This is a strange personal motivation.

Was OP mistakenly implying you had passed away? Or do you just happen to share the same name as the FT author?

I just happen to share the name. Sorry for any confusion.

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by WGH_ » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 10:23 PM UTC

mdp2021 wrote: post #16

joecool1029 wrote: post #3

The old bloomberg 404 from some years ago was pretty good: https://web.archive.org/web/20160311202451/http://www.bloomb...

I do not understand what they meant - if they intended to mean anything - with the de-composing puppet. An in-joke?

I understand it as a part of "crappy CGI" aesthetic.

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by polycaster » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

arjunrc wrote: post #56

amvalo wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you remember what they were called?

I am interested in this as well. The regular media can be monotonous or driven by agendas. Would be great to find content created by folks paid to write unbiased, say it like it is.

Afaik that‘s what Stratfor does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratfor

They provide a free weekly newsletter as well.

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by jklinger410 » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 12:47 AM UTC

Their fonts are great!

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by i2shar » Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 6:06 AM UTC

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #35

Somewhere, some ops engineer is being pinged because the alerting system has noticed a huge increase in hits to the error page.

> Demand increased and a shortage occurred.

The engineer then sat back and smiled at how their server continues to serve this page just fine despite the HN demand :)