How (!not) to make a 404 page

by wiresurfer on 2/16/2015, 12:57:54 PM with 23 comments

  • by jameskilton on 2/16/2015, 1:24:16 PM

    What? Bloomberg's 404 pages are awesome! Also see http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404

    Their 500 pages are just as wacky:

    http://www.bloomberg.com/500 http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500

  • by azurelogic on 2/16/2015, 2:22:43 PM

    This was posted here 9 days ago => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013890.

    Consensus is that Bloomberg's 404 and 500 pages are quite awesome.

  • by at_ on 2/16/2015, 2:32:23 PM

    As a vehicle for getting word of their site redesign out its clearly been pretty effective. I mean I literally learned Bloomberg redesigned their website from an art blog of all places, and this is the second time its been on the HN front page now. This is a 'how', not a 'how not'.

  • by tempodox on 2/16/2015, 2:20:44 PM

    I can already see Error-Page-As-A-Service as the next big business model.

  • by latch on 2/16/2015, 1:20:01 PM

    If it hadn't been like this for a while, I honestly would have thought that bloomberg.com had been hacked and defaced. Consider this recent article about Radio Shack: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-02/inside-rad...

  • by chrisstu on 2/16/2015, 1:28:23 PM

    It's probably down to Bloomberg hiring this guy: http://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-hires-bi-executive-...

    The new site is a visual abomination with articles having titles designed as link-bait, similar in style to Business Insider.

  • by SKULLZ1987 on 2/16/2015, 2:52:06 PM

    WTF...! It's Awesome! WTF happens to the avatar though? It looks like it's going to jump but then falls to pieces. I wouldn't say this is the best way to display a 404 page, however I agree it's nice to see a big corporation making light of an error.

  • by wiresurfer on 2/16/2015, 1:46:35 PM

    OP here Didn't know they had a panache for awesomely creepy Error pages. Seems to fit in with their personality, in which case, the title of the post is my bad.

    Anyways, I came across this while trying to resolve their archive page links, which seems to be broken, possibly after they changed everything to businessweek.com Although a small tweak to the url can get you to the article, a better tweak takes you to this gem of a 404! :)