Keep the 404, Explain the Cause: A Small UX Fix for Merged URLs in WeChat
gefei55 · x · 2026-10-09
The author shares a product detail: two stacked URLs in an onboarding doc got merged on some WeChat clients, so users hit a 404 and assumed the link was wrong.
The fix: the server still returns a proper 404 (it really is a bad URL), but the page now detects the intended URL, explains the merging issue, and offers the correct link—preserving error semantics while improving the user experience.
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