Happy April Fools!
Happy April Fools!
Sorry for the delay getting things back to normal around here. Everything has been restored to its pre-April 1st state. So basically it is as though April Fools never happened...at least as far as the forums are concerned. Of course we all know better now, don't we?
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Watching posts change in real time was pretty funny. You'd see someone post and then it would change in about a minute because they 'edited' it. I was also amused when people started communicating through the subject lines. I hadn't anticipated that when we setup this gag. I think that's probably the most the subject line has been used on non-first posts...EVER! But I think the funniest part for me were all the distressed PMs I got from people. I purposely cleaned out my PM box ahead of time to make room for all the PMs I figured (correctly) I'd get.
But you're right, the day was really long and it wasn't particularly funny by the end...especially when I went to undo everything. Restoring the backup from Thursday took F-O-R-E-V-E-R! Blah.
But you're right, the day was really long and it wasn't particularly funny by the end...especially when I went to undo everything. Restoring the backup from Thursday took F-O-R-E-V-E-R! Blah.
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Ho wrote:Watching posts change in real time was pretty funny. You'd see someone post and then it would change in about a minute because they 'edited' it. I was also amused when people started communicating through the subject lines. I hadn't anticipated that when we setup this gag. I think that's probably the most the subject line has been used on non-first posts...EVER! But I think the funniest part for me were all the distressed PMs I got from people. I purposely cleaned out my PM box ahead of time to make room for all the PMs I figured (correctly) I'd get.
But you're right, the day was really long and it wasn't particularly funny by the end...especially when I went to undo everything. Restoring the backup from Thursday took F-O-R-E-V-E-R! Blah.
it was prty funny until i started getting accused of being hacked, and getting my rating brought down
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Well, remember, the ratings all got blown away with the restore (and give Ho some credit on that one, I know it took him a while since phpBB's restore function SUCKS!). The ratings that were made yesterday were all part of the fun and don't affect anyone in the end.Mei-Mei wrote:I thought is was pretty funny until people started getting mean and blaming people for hacking it. I think the rating should have been disabled, lol.
And actually, we were hacked. It seems that some intruder used a bug in phpBB's UTF-9 support to gain access to the codebase as well as give him/herself moderator access. We don't believe any personal data was compromised. I would have noticed it sooner, but I was off drinking my Google Gulp while trying to prove that Infinity+1 is somehow greater than Infinity.
Actually, I kinda anticipated people would figure that out, though I didn't expect it to happen so fast. The change I made to do the trick was incredibly simple (though a similar change could have been used to mung the subject lines as well, or even ratings comments), but we just wanted to have a little fun.sam wrote:you should always anticipate me figuring out a way around stuff
A normality test:
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If you are no longer connected to the internet, you need to apply more wax to your modem: it'll make it go faster.
If you find this funny, you're a nerd.
If neither of the above apply, you are normal. Congratulations.
+++ATH
If you are no longer connected to the internet, you need to apply more wax to your modem: it'll make it go faster.
If you find this funny, you're a nerd.
If neither of the above apply, you are normal. Congratulations.