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Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page
Just got to this error page by refreshing my Gmail tab, seeing the Gmail error page, and then refreshing the error page and getting this. Never seen this posted on the Internet before, but I thought it was interesting.
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- SchwKatze 1y agoYou found the easter egg gem! The fact that google's engineers cared about doing that it's pretty funny
- henry700 1y agoProbably done over a decade ago. Today we wouldn't see this
- pi_22by7 1y agooh, for sureee
- hnlmorg 1y agoThat explains why we aren’t talking about it today then.
- fnordpiglet 1y agoSource code isn’t written afresh every day. The point was the code was written at a different era and the current era wouldn’t produce this sort of code, and presumably you wouldn’t see anything but a generic 500. This is likely because product managers can’t stand free thought and action amongst engineers as it doesn’t appease their bean counter overlords sufficiently.
- hnlmorg 1y agoYou don’t know when that was written.
- jabjq 1y agoIf you use Google to find this string you will find very old references. (“Very old” is relative)
- kartoffelsaft 1y agoIt had been written by (at the latest) September 2008: https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-message.html?m=1 https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-m...
- JadeNB 1y agoWow, seeing someone (presumably) unironically saying "This is why we love Google" was definitely a throwback to an earlier time. https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-message.html?showComment=1222411740000&m=1#c4141561695680799203 https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-m...
- furyofantares 1y agoI definitely still loved Google in 2008.
- fnordpiglet 1y agoThat’s pretty presumptuous, but especially so when there are comments parallel from googlers pinning the date and it’s easily determined by using this very powerful information retrieval tool called “Google.” Not to mention the possibility I work at Google, or that I wrote it myself!
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoRelated: Ask HN: GCP Outage? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605732
- crgk 1y agoI’m getting an imgur error page, but it seems this post is meant to be an image of a Google error page? I’ve reached the error page of the image of the error page for the error page. We’re too deep.
- Tiberium 1y agoImgur really hates VPNs, and will show that bogus error page if you're not using a "nice" connection.
- andrepd 1y agoLol, so meta. Also: very sad, but it would be great if it was just imgur doing this; it's the whole internet.
- bhaney 1y agoNow to refresh this comment until HN randomly goes down
- bryanrasmussen 1y agoYou have reached the error reply to your valued comment. Please send this comment in an email to all your relatives or a bunny will die.
- Tijdreiziger 1y agoFW: FW: FW: FW: FW: Very Important !!!
- layer8 1y ago“We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!”
- xigoi 1y agoThe internet on my phone stopped working when trying to view these HN comments.
- mister_mort 1y agoAlways leave a message in "impossible" code paths, you never know who might read it in the end.
- zaik 1y agoConfuse your coworkers by telling them you "won Gmail once".
- RandomBacon 1y agoThey'll just think you're going senile and politely agree, telling you to go back and surf the information superhighway.
- larrymcp 1y agoThe funny thing is, this error message is hardly less useful than the recent trend of error messages which say only, "Something went wrong".
- pphysch 1y agoWhat would you expect? IME these are mostly unforeseen 500 errors, logged internally, and not something a client can do anything about (or should know anything about, for security reasons).
- hinkley 1y agoHave you never dealt with customers reporting errors? Something went wrong is what they will tell you and expect an answer. Doesn’t matter how fancy and detailed the error, you will get back, “it’s broken fix it.”
- hnlmorg 1y agoBack in the early days of my career and supporting end users, I used to constantly get people say: “xxx doesn’t work. I just get an error” They would never tell me what the error message actually was. And when I asked, the reply often was “I don’t remember. I’ve closed it now”. It used to wind me up rotten. I can forget non-technical people not understanding the error message. But common sense should have kicked in that the error message is important to share with the person trying to fix said error.
- rkagerer 1y agoMaybe all errors should be presented with a simple, distinctive and memorable theme - e.g. show a pig photo in that one maybe they'll remember "I got the pig error"
- Xss3 1y agoCould make cute pictures and brighten support staffs day. 'I got a pig telling a chicken that the barn is closed??'
- rc_mob 1y agoYou have 7 different gmail accounts eh?
- Alex3917 1y agoYeah unfortunately they are tricky to get rid of once you have them. In theory I can forward the email from one account to another, but in practice it's hard to think through all the weird security issues that might arise from doing so.
- dpedu 1y agoI've got one I made as a teen, a more professional sounding mature address, one for school, two for two separate google apps domains, and one for work. They pile up over time.
- Jotalea 1y agoI have made a lot of accounts in a 5 year period: - main account, used for anything — made in 2018 - secondary account - personal account for 2021 - personal account for 2024 - account for parental controls - throwaway account with random numbers and letters - throwaway account with a purpose - account for using on VMs - account to share with my friend - account for my brother edit: fixed newlines
- yegle 1y agoThis was added in 2004. Before this change, the error message was: > If too many of these happen, someone will be paged. If you still see this after half an hour, send mail to xxxxxxxxxxx@google.com (For curious folks working for Hooli, the magic number is 472481)
- exiguus 1y agoError page of the error page made me smile. Somehow, this makes total sense to me. Consider a reverse proxy where the origin is down and displaying the 'real' error page is not possible because of that. Alternatively, imagine a CloudFront function or Lambda experiencing the same issue, or encountering so many redirects that it interrupts and simply shows the error page of the error page. Nonetheless, I agree that you shouldn't see this issue very often.
- shanemhansen 1y agoI had this for a reverse proxy I developed that did some transformations. At about two critical points if there was an error there was literally nothing we could do except 500 barf.