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The Premier Open Data Discovery Platform
http://plenar.io/
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Remove Error GIFs #430

Closed vforgione closed 6 years ago

vforgione commented 6 years ago

Right now we have some GIFs for our error pages. It was a fun little treat while we were developing the app, but now it's just unprofessional crap as we start planning a production release.

That, and they're massive in size.

brlodi commented 6 years ago

I can take on designing a nice-looking error page template. On a scale from NGINX error to "Meet the Dogs of Amazon" how serious do we want it to be? Some levity on error pages is a positive thing in my mind.

(For reference:)

vforgione commented 6 years ago

I think our 404 GIF is alright, but it so freaking heavy. Maybe something like that. I agree, a little levity on 404 is good; same with 500.

403/1 on the other hand should be a stark No Access kind of message.

brlodi commented 6 years ago

I'm pretty sure the 404 GIF is a screen capture of a CSS-animations-powered 404 page somewhere, so it would be pretty doable to have something equally nice with a much smaller footprint.