LOL, yes, this is exactly what I did. It felt like I wasn't supposed to be seeing what I was seeing, like the software was some kind of funny inside joke at Mozilla or something.
All I could think after that was - Is Random Cat funny? Is this something I should know as a developer? Am I out of some loop?
At any rate, it was so odd I just decided not to do anything else, and left. I think they goofed here, but once it's fixed, I'm sure people will go back.
That being said, it does go down as possibly the biggest tutorial fail I've seen to date - and I'm a little shocked given the source.
There is a GREAT lesson to be learned from this - and that's probably that leaving strange humor out of sign-up processes and tutorials is a good idea. I've seen other sign-ups that try to be "funny" and it just throws me off.
Agreed. Reminds me of a joke at the end of Django tutorial[1]:
Coming soon
The tutorial ends here for the time being. Future installments of the tutorial will cover:
* Advanced form processing
* Using the RSS framework
* Using the cache framework
* Using the comments framework
* Advanced admin features: Permissions
* Advanced admin features: Custom JavaScript
I get it now. It now seems kinda funny. But when I was new to Django, I thought it was serious. I used to visit the page once in a while to check if new tutorials have been added yet. Fortunately, 1.4 was the last version which included this "joke".
All I could think after that was - Is Random Cat funny? Is this something I should know as a developer? Am I out of some loop?
At any rate, it was so odd I just decided not to do anything else, and left. I think they goofed here, but once it's fixed, I'm sure people will go back.
That being said, it does go down as possibly the biggest tutorial fail I've seen to date - and I'm a little shocked given the source.
There is a GREAT lesson to be learned from this - and that's probably that leaving strange humor out of sign-up processes and tutorials is a good idea. I've seen other sign-ups that try to be "funny" and it just throws me off.