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Spotify's “Sorry” 404 Page

yearinmusic.spotify.com

12 pointsgillis13 comments

-webkit-user-select:none on text is a thing I see done on a lot of web pages lately (past couple years), what is the point?

Well, sometimes it is a clean presentation to not be able to select text. You know when you just randomly click and hold the mouse then you end up highlighting half of the interface as well as the text? That is "immersion breaking" for web apps, or whatever the real word is.

In this specific case, it's still broken because the cursor still changes to the selection cursor. Oh well.

they should have done `cursor: default` for the html element selector in the CSS file as well.

Also useful in HTML/CSS/JS-driven desktop UI through Chromium or similar as a way of preventing selection on user interface chassis elements.

I guess the joke is that there is a Justin Bieber song called "Sorry". At least I think what's going on here. "404s and Heartbreak" with a pic of Kanye West would have been something else along this line.

Yeah I don't get it. I guess the only other thing that stood out for me was that the message is "Sorry something went wrong" except that 404 is a user error. "Sorry" is usually used for 500s.

A quora post linking to some: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-funniest-HTTP-404-Error-M...

The company I work at (SeatGeek) used to have a 404 bunny, but it's been removed, so here it is in case someone wants to see it: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/252764597806356312/

Bloomberg's is funny. http://www.bloomberg.com/404

kudos to the economist-themed http://www.ft.com/intl/404 page

this is actually spotify's 404 page https://www.spotify.com/us/asdifasdfsdf/

The one linked to was made specifically for the year in music campaign.

Even that makes a pleasant change from the usual blame-the-user verbiage on 404s.

Or Google's useless and annoying "Something went wrong, that's all we know."

I don't see what we are looking at, can anyone enlighten me?

I once had a 404 page that was a photo of Ronald Reagan with the caption "I don't recall the page you're looking for". I thought that was pretty good.

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