[HN Gopher] The Financial Times' 404 page
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The Financial Times' 404 page
Author : ColinWright
Score : 260 points
Date : 2021-10-24 19:06 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.ft.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.ft.com)
| amirmc wrote:
| Interesting. That _specific_ page is blank but others redirect to
| a more useful 404
|
| https://www.ft.com/thispagedoesnotexist
| Thorrez wrote:
| There seems to be a bug that sometimes it responds with an
| empty page (0 content length) with a 404 code, and sometimes it
| responds with a full 404 page.
| amirmc wrote:
| I see. It seems that I was getting the empty page half an
| hour ago for _just_ that link. Now it's taking me to the full
| page.
| _trampeltier wrote:
| Siemens has a pong game on there 404 page.
|
| https://new.siemens.com/de/dhhji
| plantain wrote:
| The level of care and attention to detail isn't limited just to
| their 404's - I find the FT is the best paper out there for macro
| issues.
| ColinWright wrote:
| It appears to be suffering the HN "Hug of Death".
|
| Here's the version from the wayback machine:
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20211024193418/https://www.ft.co...
| krallja wrote:
| The Wayback Machine seems to be suffering, as well:
|
| Temporarily Offline
|
| Internet Archive services are temporarily offline.
|
| Please check our Twitter feed for the latest information.
|
| We apologize for the inconvenience.
| mattkevan wrote:
| Tragedy of the commons strikes again.
| wolverine876 wrote:
| To pick on a comment probably not meant as serious economics:
| It is most emphatically _not_ a tragedy of the commons. We
| don 't commonly own FT.com or share in its use. It is
| privately owned and thus a tragedy for FT's owners, if it
| significantly impacts their profits. Probably not.
| sva_ wrote:
| It's a good page, but also gets posted quite often here
|
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
| mhh__ wrote:
| Is a few times in the last 6 years really that often?
| 1cvmask wrote:
| While it has been posted many times this is the only one with a
| critical mass of comments.
| sushsjsuauahab wrote:
| "The best outcome was unachievable, so you arrived here instead"
| salawat wrote:
| Story of a surprising proportion of human existence.
| Bluestein wrote:
| This is the kind of page tha the early internet thrived on. So
| quaint. Quirky.
|
| (Now it is all just becoming a big, walled, advertising network
| ... sigh.)
| Thorrez wrote:
| Google's is a little quirky: https://google.com/foo
|
| "Error 404 (Not Found)!!1"
|
| Full disclosure I work at Google.
| hvenev wrote:
| Other google domains serve different 404 pages on different
| URLs sometimes, for example:
|
| - https://www.youtube.com/djhjwhfkffs
|
| - https://www.youtube.com/varz
|
| - https://www.youtube.com/abortabortabort
| geofft wrote:
| https://twitter.com/jeffdean/status/1282882643277656065
| seems to explain it - "varz" is one of the "z pages" (a
| convention that by now has leaked outside Google), so it's
| handled by the Google web server infrastructure, not by the
| YouTube app. And "abortabortabort" and a few others are
| commands that are restricted at the load-balancer level.
| [deleted]
| cbm-vic-20 wrote:
| Somewhere, some ops engineer is being pinged because the alerting
| system has noticed a huge increase in hits to the error page.
| qnsi wrote:
| at least it loads fast
| joecool1029 wrote:
| The old bloomberg 404 from some years ago was pretty good:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20160311202451/http://www.bloomb...
| andylynch wrote:
| They used to have a bunch- this was always the best one.
| mdp2021 wrote:
| I do not understand what they meant - if they intended to mean
| anything - with the de-composing puppet. An in-joke?
| pdpi wrote:
| The Rolling Stones' site had the best (and most obvious) 404 page
| ever -- an embedded YouTube video for You Can't Always Get What
| You Want. Sadly they've since removed it
| aasasd wrote:
| > _HTTP Error 4O4_
|
| > _404 Unfound_
|
| > _The Web Server cannot give you the answers you need. Please
| check your life to ensure the path is correct. Did you press the
| right keys in sequence, and click with a firm but gentle hand?
| Are you paying attention? This may be a message, but it 's not a
| mistake._
|
| > _Please contact the server 's administrator if chaos persists._
|
| > _http://www.joseph.ca_
| ColinWright wrote:
| _Edited ..._
|
| As the child of this comment points out, I got this wrong. I
| was multi-tasking, and didn't read carefully enough.
|
| If they delete their comment (which is now no longer relevant)
| then I'll delete this one and leave things tidy.
|
| (they probably won't notice ...)
| ByThyGrace wrote:
| You need to pay attention. GP is quoting a different 404 page
| than the one linked by OP. :)
| [deleted]
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I love it. So much.
|
| Does anyone else get a ~10vh white bar at the bottom when they
| begin scrolling?
| grn wrote:
| I love that kind of attention to detail. It's easy to treat the
| 404 page as something not needing any thought at all so it's
| refreshing to see some still care about such seemingly irrelevant
| details.
| kristopolous wrote:
| These are all good jokes. They've got some real comedic talent
| somewhere in those offices.
| codetrotter wrote:
| I like that 404 page.
|
| Also, the page you were actually looking for is probably
| https://on.ft.com/3lJQa6w
|
| Here's an archive version of that link too
| https://archive.ph/62boB
| ColinWright wrote:
| I appreciate that you might think that, and thank you, but I
| was only interested in the 404 page.
| oolonthegreat wrote:
| now that is only weirder what is the meaning of "3lJQa6w"
| then ? surely you didn't randomly type that ?
| ColinWright wrote:
| This one was sent to me, but in a similar situation when
| someone said a 404 page from a particular site was fun, I
| simply mutated an existing genuine page until I had a URL
| that 404'd.
| dylan604 wrote:
| ML fails again. They need better traning data
| dixie_land wrote:
| Surprised no one has mentioned dogs at Amazon yet
|
| https://www.amazon.com/dp/skdkjdh
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