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April Fools 2013!

Nate · 2013-04-02T02:01:49Z

April Fools 2013 brought forth three pranks! - YWS: Askew - Mine? - YWS: Buran YWS: Askew rotated YWS by about 5 degrees, and could be undone by clicking the "I am a tab" tab. Overall, about 92 people did so. The effect looked best in Firefox, although it worked across all browsers; in Chrome, the text could be unreadable, and in IE, a weird dark shadow was surrounding the rotated area. As a result, YWS: Askew did not last long! Inspired by Finding Nemo, which my nephews watch constantly, "Mine?" changed everyone's username to "Mine?". It also changed avatars to a picture of the seagulls from Finding Nemo, and you could activate this prank by clicking the "Do not click me!" tab. 297 people ignored this warning! Both the "Do not click me!" and "I am a tab" tabs led you to the "Parrot Room." The Parrot Room subsequently became the fourth most popular page on the site; only the homepage, the forums, and notifications were more popular. The last prank was YWS: Buran, named after the failed Soviet space shuttle program. As a quick note, the sequel to YWS: Apollo would be called YWS: Cassini and would be a feature update only. That's about it! I threw this together at the last minute, so nothing too extensive, but there's always next year.

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Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:28 pm

elcuidador says... · Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:28 pm

I actually got a 9 year old laptop as a present from my mom on that day and was on YWS. I thought my laptop was just messed up and learned to live with it xD I was reading all blurry for the entire day

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Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:43 pm

LadySpark says... · Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:43 pm

I was really worried Buran was real, but then I googled it, saw it was a failed mission and started laughing.

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Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:54 pm

Auxiira says... · Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:54 pm

I almost posted the askew thingy on the site error forum... thank Chuck for not having it posted at least three times...

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Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:28 am

StoneHeart says... · Fri Apr 12, 2013 3:28 am

Hmmm. . . . I didn't click the 'askew' thing. But I got seagulled for sure. . . .
(Lucky Jordin showed me how to fix it, I'd have gone around all day without knowing who was who!).

Hmmm.

The Buran thing, man, that was sad :'( I took it so seriously.

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I spread my dreams under your feet . . .

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He began to wonder why he had felt uneasy at all. It was like a man wondering in broad daylight why a dream had appeared so terrible to him at night.
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