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Creative Error Messages

I got this message at 11:30am today (Wednesday) trying to access a "space" on MSN spaces:

"The MSN Spaces network is being upgraded and is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."

Yeah, I can just picture that exchange at MSN world headquarters:

Deploy guy:
"Hey Boss, we'd like to go ahead and do that upgrade in the middle of the day on Wednesday. It'll take down all of the spaces for a while. Can we get your approval?"
Boss:
"Sure!"

If you're going to fake out a 500 error page, at least go with "The MSN Spaces server is getting a massage", which is the de facto standard 500 page for Web 2.0. "Upgraded" ... yeah right.

Posted by Eric on September 14, 2005 12:05 PM • • Microfeed

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