Here’s a new one (to me)- Twitter’s “Find People” function is not available, so we see the following message:
Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled.
How cute. Who doesn’t get stressed out when a hundred million friends are asking you questions all at the same time?
Yes, this is a nice way to show your users that the service is unavailable.
Great job, Aardvark. I’ve the additional screens as well.
While not technically a 404, I’m lumping it into my collection as a clever browser error message.
Well this is embarrassing.
Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page.
Gotta love a team that has a sense of humor. Thanks to Howie for the screen grab.
Just when I had 10 minutes to review my projects, the project management system is down for emergency maintenance. With the link going to a description of timezones, I found this error to be pretty weak.
The system is down for emergency maintenance
It’ll be back by 3:00PM Central time.
Got this fairly vague error today at ProProfs.com. It is nice that it says there is an error and provides a link to try again, but pro peeps need better pro errors.
IPS Driver Error
There appears to be an error with the database.
You can try to refresh the page by clicking here
It’s been a while since I’ve found a good shot for the collection. So fun to be back on track with Bit.ly’s hand-drawn “bit.ly couldn’t find a link for the bit.ly URL you clicked” screen.
Uh oh, bit.ly couldn’t find a link for the bit.ly URL you clicked.
Maybe one of the pufferfish ate it, or maybe there are some extra characters on the end of the URL.
Most bit.ly URLs are 4-6 characters, and only include letters and numbers.
A software update brought me to this nice 404 over at Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes. I like the “at the very least” portion, because it very much sounds like something Doug would say.
The area you are attempting to reach in the dougscripts.com domain cannot be found. It may have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Or, at the very least, the link that got you here is incorrect.
Perhaps you can find what you are looking for using the links in the column on the right or by using the menu and search forms at the top of this page.
Consistent errors should be brought to the attention of webmaster AT dougscripts DOT com.
The notoriously slow, but heavily used, bulk email service MyEmma took a rather bland nosedive this afternoon.
The service is temporarily unavailable. We're sorry, our service is temporarily inaccessible. We are working hard to remedy the situation and hope to have access restored soon.
37 Signals takes a low-key approach to their error screen when search files in Basecamp. My interpretation- “Eh, it’s down- try again later. Please don’t bug us.”
Search is temporarily unavailable. Please try again in 5 minutes. If this continues for an extended period of time please let us know. Thank you.
I got this great error page over at bit.ly today. Perhaps it is possible to shorten URLs too much?
Sorry to interrupt your show, but there seems to be a problem.