<story><title>HTTP Status Dogs (2011)</title><url>https://httpstatusdogs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MattKimber</author><text>One surprisingly practical use I found for things like this; when internal tools throw up a 404 or a 503 with the usual default status page, people assume &amp;quot;oh it&amp;#x27;s not working, I&amp;#x27;ll try again later&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;When they get an unexpected cat (or dog, in this case) they tend to go and ask their tech team, &amp;quot;what&amp;#x27;s with the cat?&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s not a substitute for good logging and alerting in any way, and is totally unsuitable for environments where internal tools need to appear professional and sensible, but as a way to get people to pay attention when something goes wrong then a cute animal can work a lot better than a &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; notification.</text></comment>
<story><title>HTTP Status Dogs (2011)</title><url>https://httpstatusdogs.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kypro</author><text>Might be okay on a humour site, or perhaps in an internal tool, but some of these are a bit tasteless IMO. It could be far more useful if you were able to pick from a selection of individual images or image sets depending on the usecase. Although even then these kinds of http error images scream early-2000s web humour to me.</text></comment>