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If you had a site, what would your April Fool's Day prank be?

Farted by Topcatyo, April 01, 2008, 07:30:41 PM

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Topcatyo

This is a thread just for fun, but if you owned a site, what would you have be your April Fool's Day prank on it?
I personally hope to start up a webcomic that doesn't suck sometime, and my April Fool's Day prank would be a news post stating that the website was shutting down because another site "we hadn't known about before" (really a fake site started up at the same time for fun) was suing us, and we'd have to be shut down.  The fake alternate site would basically be the same exact site except some colors switched around and the comics would be edited slightly.  Then, for the next week, I'd have the site closed down (this time would be used to get some nice r and r).  Then, at the end of the week, I'd get rid of the fake site and open the regular site back up again and act like nothing ever happened.
Of course, that might be too elaborate considering I'd probably be lost in the sea of other webcomics out there, but it'd still be fun to do.
Also lol webcomics.


AirPumpClock

Put a ridiculously large-mouthed face on the front page. The mouth would take up the whole space, and clicking the uvula would go to and April Fool's page, followed directly by the real main page.

joliet_jane

Seriously, if I would've thought of this yesterday, I would have done it:

I should have made a decent-looking fake news page saying that Rupert Murdoch bought EBSCO (a very major database aggregator used by libraries) and was going to raise the price and make it pay-per-article.  Then I would have emailed it to a popular library listserv in the state.

Since no one I work with did anything for April Fool's and librarians can take a joke, it would've gone over well.  Next year, I'm doing it for sure.

Slash

None, April fools day sucks because most of the jokes aren't even funny, and why are we even doing it? and can you even call it a holiday?

Topcatyo

Quote from: joliet_jane;1269777Seriously, if I would've thought of this yesterday, I would have done it:

I should have made a decent-looking fake news page saying that Rupert Murdoch bought EBSCO (a very major database aggregator used by libraries) and was going to raise the price and make it pay-per-article.  Then I would have emailed it to a popular library listserv in the state.

Since no one I work with did anything for April Fool's and librarians can take a joke, it would've gone over well.  Next year, I'm doing it for sure.
That would've been awesome, I bet.
Save that post to somewhere so you can remember to do it, next year.

VCRClock

Nothing, unless my website was wildly popular, in which case I'd do something that my visitors might actually think was real, ideally until they realize it's April 1st.
<Marlin Clock> This thread seems proof positive that divisiveness at any level is usually bad for the Clock Crew.
<PhantomCatClock> are we talking about the same clock crew

Slurpee

I'd jump off a building.

Everybody would be like "Good one, man."

and then I'm actually dead


d u m p y

i'd own a shock site and then for that one day,
make it into a blog.
ohoh how upset some would be.

Blue

Quote from: PepsiClock;1269910to send you a link to my http://www.meatspin.com

I think you did it wrong.
[FLASH=http://files.myfrogbag.com/mupff0/snowflake.swf]width=670 height=200 quality=medium wmode=transparent[/FLASH]

PepsiClock

Quote from: Deep Blue;1269919I think you did it wrong.

=(

joliet_jane

Quote from: SlashClock;1269784None, April fools day sucks because most of the jokes aren't even funny, and why are we even doing it? and can you even call it a holiday?
it's a safety valve, but not as big a valve as Halloween


Slurpee

Quote from: ZeitmiserZeitmesser;1269939Kill everyone.

good one

Maltese

well, I did my first annual celebration of Bizarro Day, I dressed in a silly manor and spoke using incorrect grammatical form.

Next year, I'm going to suddenly dress in victorian era clothing and speak entirely in haiku.

Loki Clock

Do something obvious and kill everyone who says "HAHA I SAW IT COMING A MILE AWAY."

DWARFINATORclock

I would put a virus on it that would destroy your computer.

AlbinoClock

Quote from: Δ;1270031make everything super upgraded and fully functional and looks good and people would be like "woah this new format rules" and then the next day revert back and piss everyone off

Fuck you Clam I almost wrote that. :(

TequilaClock

Well it depends on the content, popularity and comparison with other sites.

Today VGCats did something genius, Starmen.Net made a fake interview with Reggie from NoA...

I think I would put a flash file making it display as 404 error and then play a bit with it.

Sorry I don't feel very creative atm.