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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

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/404 https://github.com/404 https://github.com/500 https://github.com/500 Edited for clarity

chris_wot 12y ago
If I tilt my iPad the sign on that 500 page moves...
- peterjmag 12y ago
  Cool! Looks like it'll do that in any browser + device combo that supports the device orientation API[1], including Safari on iOS and Chrome on most Mac laptops. Here's little bit more information from a previous comment of mine, if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547345 [1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/device/orientation/
- azurelogic 12y ago
  Mouse movement over the graphic does it on desktop too, fyi
chrismcb 12y ago
They are supposed to be humorous. How is github's better than bloombergs?