Apparently this trick does not work anymore. The StumbleUpon error page just shows “Unknown Error”. Oh well…Thanks to Brian for pointing this out. 

A while back, on the old Patrick DeVivo dot com, I posted a neat little trick which seemed to get a lot of publicity. This is just a quick repost of how it works.

Have you ever hit your stumble button but then got stuck with an ugly error page? Most likely, you were redirected to this page: http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php and then displayed some sort of error message. StumbleUpon uses the PHP GET method to display the error, so you can easily modify the message by editing the url in your address bar.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php?error=YOUR%20MESSAGE%20HERE

Will appear as:

Basically, to create your own StumbleUpon error message, simply add some text right after http://www.stumbleupon.com/error.php?error=. You don’t need to put in the %20 for spaces, your browser should insert them automatically.

Be creative. Do something fun. Use TinyURL to send jokes to your friends. Leave a comment with a message you created.