Well, I am a regular user of Digg and I can live with the few lack-lustre bumps with Digg. Today, I went to an article on digg, perhaps from one of my RSS Reader (NetNewsWire and/or NewsFire) but I got a 404 Error. It took me several minutes to get back to my RSS Feed Reader and search for a “READ” link and see what the topic was and thus can search on Digg for the working link.
My wish is - had Digg implemented the normal method of displaying 404 error page (any error for that matter) without redirecting me to a page totally alien - keep the url on to that wrong url and just informing me that it encountered a 404 page would be better. That way, I would have known then and there what was I looking for and could find it faster and easier on Digg.
I am still a regular reader of Digg news if not a heavy top digger these days. I seriously wish that Digg should not redirect to a totally new error page when it encounters a 404 but just leave me to that URL. Please Digg, don’t fight the browser and/or server behavior.
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The ironic thing is, it is much, much easier to simply create a 404.shtml page - They use LAMP so just hang the ’smart guy’ ideas, and simply use what is built in Apache.
Posted 15 Apr 2007 at 3:05 pm ¶Post a Comment