What? Bloomberg's 404 pages are <i>awesome</i>! Also see <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404</a><p>Their 500 pages are just as wacky:<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/500" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/500</a>
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500</a>
This was posted here 9 days ago => <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013890" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013890</a>.<p>Consensus is that Bloomberg's 404 and 500 pages are quite awesome.
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'.
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:
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-02/inside-radioshack-s-slow-motion-collapse" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-02/inside-rad...</a>
It's probably down to Bloomberg hiring this guy:
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-hires-bi-executive-editor-joe-weisenthal-to-host-new-tv-show-2014-10?IR=T" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-hires-bi-executive-...</a><p>The new site is a visual abomination with articles having titles designed as link-bait, similar in style to Business Insider.
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.
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.<p>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! :)