@Rahul @CharlesBoyung I have never seen the old FT.com, but I think it is important to point out that they are using Tufte's sparklines en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline on the upper right.

@Rahul - Overall I would say it's not bad. It's got the same feel to it as the NPR npr.org site. A decent way of cramming in a lot of info.

@Rahul - Not really digging the background color though

What should our 404 and error pages be?

That's awesome

@PatrickMcElhaney - How about cartoonish illustration of a guy with no arms staring at a computer, keyboard, and mouse with a confused look on his face and a question mark over his head?

@MattRockwell That's an idea. What that be for 404 or error?

404 I was thinking

HAHAHAHA

I just saw the bike error now too

Yeah, that's a good one. Can't go wrong with cats. :)

This is a funny one that might work for hardware - udumans.blogspot.com/2011/07/found-new-hardware.html. Although not directly an error, the dog being recognized as hardware is erroneous.

Not sure what the permissions are for using images thought, the cat one is credited at the bottom of the image

Maybe we can do something that makes fun of Clippy :)

That would be great as well

Saw this on Twitter the other day: nosh.me/404

Maybe for the error page, we could have a VCR flashing 12:00.

That's a great idea too

I couldnt see the video portion of your last link, streaming video is blocked here at my work

@PatrickMcElhaney @Rahul - whoever marked my flag as invalid, please explain how this is a valid answer: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3117/… It should be a comment because it isn't answering the question at all, it is asking a different question.

@CharlesBoyung I did, because it's not such a big deal and that user doesn't have enough rep to comment yet.

@PatrickMcElhaney That's what flags are for - you can convert it to a comment, which is exactly what should be done with it. My flag was NOT invalid

Answers are supposed to be actual answers. That's why we have community flagging - to clean these situations up.

And he could have asked that as his own question if he wanted to as well - he has enough rep to do that.

@CharlesBoyung It's actually a duplicate of another comment. It would probably make more sense just to delete the answer. The question's already been sufficiently answered and his non-answer isn't getting in the way. It's just ain't broke enough to matter, so I opted not to fix it.

@PatrickMcElhaney Still not a reason to mark my flag as invalid.

And the job of the moderators is to clean up non-answers - doesn't matter if it's at the bottom of the list or not.

@CharlesBoyung Why don't you post a nice comment suggesting that he ask another question?

@CharlesBoyung Although he isn't answering his own question, aren;t you allowed to answer with a question?

That's what it says in the fact

@PatrickMcElhaney If his answer were a comment, then I would comment on his comment.

@CharlesBoyung If I had marked it as valid, wouldn't you be here asking why I agreed with the flag but didn't act on it? ;-)

I mean his answer is perfectly valid if he were to preface it with a "Yes, or at least they should be dead."

@MattRockwell No, it doesn't answer the question at all.

Question: Save icon, is the floppy disk dead? His answer: (Yes) Why do we even need an icon? Why do we force users to save manually? Why don't we handle this for them?

his answer is saying it should be dead.

At least that;s how I read it

@PatrickMcElhaney You explained your reasoning for that before, no matter how invalid it is.

@MattRockwell No, if you read the actual question, he is looking for a replacement icon, not whether or not you should be auto-saving

@PatrickMcElhaney I really don't see why you didn't just convert it - you were already in the admin tools in order to respond to the flag.

@CharlesBoyung - Right. And since I did read it and understand it perfectly, he answers the "Should it be replaced with something more modern and if so what?" more modern = nothing at all

@MattRockwell No - that is a completely different saving paradigm, not an answer to the question asked.

@MattRockwell The fact that it is enough to warrant being its own question is reason enough that it is not a valid answer.

@CharlesBoyung - I agree, it would be great for its own question