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Why does nobody talk about the 404 page that made me change my mind about cute error screens
I used to think funny 404 pages were harmless, even kind of charming. Then last week I hit 47 broken links in a row on a parts site while trying to find a hose clamp for a job in Mesa, and every single dead end gave me a cartoon dinosaur saying "Oops, looks like this page wandered off!" By the sixth one I was ready to throw my phone. The kicker was there was no search bar on any of those pages, just the dinosaur and a button back to the home page that reloaded the same broken menu. That is when it clicked for me. A joke page is only fine if it also helps you get somewhere, like a working search box or a link to the section you came from. If it is just cute and useless, it wastes the user's time and makes a bad moment worse. Has anyone here built an error page that people genuinely found useful, or is a plain old list of links still the best move?
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