Sign of the times?

flhrci

flhrci

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Is it appropriate that a website I went to today had an error message of "whoops...our bad" for a page not found 404 error?

Call me old I guess since I was born in 1971 but I don't like it.

What say you all?

David
 
I set our 404s to show "We are currently performing scheduled, routine maintenance; please try your request again later." or something like that.
 
I think ours are default but in a bejillion languages. I'd have to go look.

Can't remember the last time we actually handed out a real 404.

I barely will tolerate a real page that says we're offline on our oldest platform that can't be easily renovated for continuous up-time. Cost/benefit isn't there to re-vamp it, but it's soooooo late-90s to do that.

A 404 is like announcing to the world that you can't design a release process right that can flip from one set of code to the next right in the middle of traffic.
 
I was born way before 1971 and had to read the post again in order to guess what you didn't like about the message. "Our bad?"
 
I've always wanted a "Woop, there it is!" message when I successfully found a web page.
 
404 errors, ATMs, regular status messages, they are all getting dumbed down to the most common denominator.

Get used to it, the world is not getting smarter.
 
I've seen variants of the following image on a 404 with text such as "Who moved my cheese?"
cheese.jpg
 
Swap out the guy and put in a woman....I think more people will try and break your site.
mint-funny-404-erro-page-and-copy.png
 
If they can't take a joke the hell with em'
 
I always thought the best use of a 404 page was to link to your least organically found content. "My bad" wouldn't bug me. A dead end would.
 
Funny, just today I got a call from a developer that our server got hacked or infected with a virus. He kept saying "ET phone home". I did not understand.
I went to the server webpage and sure enough, saw a simple line of text "App exited before phoning home".
Knowing well who actually wrote the SW, I did some digging and found out this was meant as an error message (quite pointless and retarded if you ask me). Found the problem, fixed it and all is well.
When will these hipster idiots learn to speak English and convey a problem description instead of trying to be cute, artsy and utterly useless?
Had the author of the message had any brains, I could have fixed the problem 30 seconds instead of wasting half an hour on digging. *sigh*
 
They are trying to make you feel like you are dealing with a human instead of a "system".
 
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