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404 page that lets visitors express themselves

leftlogic.com

28 pointsadmp12 comments

Ah I thought it was going to be a feedback form - which would be a good idea.

I've seen a lot of creative 404 pages. Some of them are intended to have some extra utility. This one, on the other hand, is intended to be merely novel and fun. And I'd say it succeeds. I especially like that it shares some other pictures that have been created.

If I am directly getting the 404 page, and I receive it, then shouldn't the status code be 200?

  curl -I http://leftlogic.com/info/articles/404
  HTTP/1.1 404 Page not found
  Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:45:07 GMT
  Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) DAV/1.0.3 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/5.4.0
  X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.0
  Connection: close
  Content-Type: text/html

But it was found.

There is no resource on that endpoint so nothing was really found. It is merely arbitrary that applications redirect you to a preconfigured URL to show that error.

Yes. Returning content for error pages is normal. The status code indicates this isn't what was expected, but doesn't say you can't produce some other content along with it.

Unless that URL is deceiving, and that's not actually the URL for the 404 page - just a URL that doesn't exist that looks like it could be the URL for the 404 page.

A page discussing creative 404s giving me a 502 (where I can not express myself, no less!) is just too delicious.

I love that. Worked for me though. Cool idea. I wonder if it increased engagement.

Ironically, now their servers are overloaded because too many people wanted to see their error 404 page.

I wonder, for every vote on a submission here, how many people actually visit the link?

How completely pointless. If I stop by my local hardware store looking for some paint and its closed, then find a little sketch pad where I can draw a picture to express myself if think this was the most stupid thing I've seen all year. What is is this, kindergarten?

Finally!

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