Am I missing the April Fool's Day joke?

StreamerDarkly

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Dear Tech Staff,

Not to be an ass, but you seem to have neglected to add:

if(user.NumBlackScreensSeen >= 20)
user.DisableBlackScreenEffect();

If you've got so much sodding time on your hands, why not fix the irritating bug where quoting a post with footnotes in it reproduces those footnotes. A simple and productive task.
 

Thaluikhain

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Yeah, is this a joke? Cause it looks like a technical issue, and you're not supposed to do that on purpose.

OTOH, I guess next time something goes wrong, they can call it a prank instead of a mistake.
 

FPLOON

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Well, of course you're not missing the joke... I mean, who would joke about missing a joke in the first place?

Other than that, I forgot to do my daily dancing exercises...
http://38.media.tumblr.com/718daf109ca11c1b7d2c56a5f335c182/tumblr_nicyswnDXZ1tvfxs2o1_500.gif
 

Marovus

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I actually managed to get two at the same time:

http://i.gyazo.com/474a8e3da64f9c2f08c41320b43c739b.png
 

Starke

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FalloutJack said:
I'm gonna go watch Zero Punctuation in lopsided-vision.
Are the videos actually rendering in Dutch angles?

EDIT: Yes, they are.
 

Moeez

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Create new technical problems as a joke for a whole day and then having to fix those problems. Good job...
 

Darks63

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Since I use the Hacker vision add on with chrome I am not really noticing the site being black since that is what the add on does already.
 

Kross

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The black screen is the Basement code, and the rest is what happens when you ask the Tech Team to do April Fools things to the site. <3

 

Story

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sky14kemea said:
Has anyone else been visited by this little guy yet?


I managed to catch a screenshot before he disappeared.
He's actually a favorite out of all these "tricks".
The others like the black screen and sideways browser are obnoxious.
 

FPLOON

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sky14kemea said:
Has anyone else been visited by this little guy yet?


I managed to catch a screenshot before he disappeared.
Story said:
He's actually a favorite out of all these "tricks".
The others like the black screen and sideways browser are obnoxious.
Isn't that suppose to be a minion or something?

Anyway, besides that, I've been loving the Darude - Sandstorm "Easter eggs" all day as well as the "Comic Sans"... (Refreshed so many pages this day...)
 

theSovietConnection

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Story said:
The others like the black screen and sideways browser are obnoxious.
I just had to refresh my page 4 times in a row to get away from the black screen of useless website.

So this, so very much this.
 

ninja666

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God dammit! It's 2nd of April now, you can turn these "tricks" of yours off. They're annoying twice as much when you're trying to browse the site on a not-April-Fool's-Day.
 

Lightknight

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StreamerDarkly said:
Getting a special April Fools present now even though it's April 2nd.
Garish website backbround: http://cdn.escapistmagazine.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/85/85425.gif
All Belieber avatars: http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/56/56741.png

Add these URLs to AdBlock filter with Options->Customize->Manually edit your filters.

And since the Adblock Customization page just happens to be open, one might also consider removing exceptions for certain sites. You know, if one was so inclined.
Oh... did you click the red button badge under my Avatar or something? That's not April Fools my friend...
 

Elementary - Dear Watson

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sky14kemea said:
Has anyone else been visited by this little guy yet?


I managed to catch a screenshot before he disappeared.
If it's the dude that looks like a minion (I can't see hosted pics) then yes, yes I did see him peer over the top of the thread!

I thought this was all just my work computer again! :S
 

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ninja666 said:
God dammit! It's 2nd of April now, you can turn these "tricks" of yours off. They're annoying twice as much when you're trying to browse the site on a not-April-Fool's-Day.
You can actually turn most of this garbage off in the profile control panel. Set the background to something that's not animated dogs and hide avatars. I actually didn't notice the avatars until I clicked on my profile because I already disabled viewing avatars on this site due to the high percentage of obnoxious animated avatars among the population.
Kross said:
The black screen is the Basement code, and the rest is what happens when you ask the Tech Team to do April Fools things to the site. <3
So who would one talk to to get someone to not ask the Tech Team to do something like this again?
 

Aerosteam

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I don't really understand the negativity on the April Fool's stuff around here. This is the first time this has happened and it only lasts for a single day! And it doesn't take a whole of effort to click the refresh button as well.

This is coming from someone who's currently seeing everyone as Justin Bieber without pressing the Red Button and whose site background occasionally changes to the "Mayan Apocalypse" one.

Learn to have some fun at least once a year.
 

Sleepy Sol

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Aerosteam said:
I don't really understand the negativity on the April Fool's stuff around here. This is the first time this has happened and it only lasts for a single day! And it doesn't take a whole of effort to click the refresh button as well.
Ehh, it got obnoxious when you had to go through three or four refreshes before the page felt like properly displaying again. I don't mind it a whole lot, and it was amusing the first few times it happened, but at the end of the day I was so grateful this stuff was gone.
 

Aerosteam

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Solaire of Astora said:
Ehh, it got obnoxious when you had to go through three or four refreshes before the page felt like properly displaying again. I don't mind it a whole lot, and it was amusing the first few times it happened, but at the end of the day I was so grateful this stuff was gone.
I can understand that. Though it's just the people wanting for it to not happen again next year I'm viewing as party poopers.
 

Chaos James

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I know that my timezone isn't universal, but my clock says 12:36am on APRIL 3RD!

The site has been janky waaaaaay too long for *just* an April Fool's Day joke, and is a serious pain to even bother with.