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There's an option in the HN settings to change the color of the topbar. When I first signed up I didn't know why it was there (I still don't) but I changed it to a fetching shade of green[1]. I've had it that way for so long that HN always looks odd to me when I log out and it goes back to orange. [1]: http://i.imgur.com/r6tbAt4.png
It was very silly, the top headline was "Linux Possibly Defamed Somewhere"
[1] http://www.suck.com/daily/99/12/13/daily.html (the layout has not aged well on this one, sorry. pre-CSS days)
Who remembers that time back in '99 when suck.com parodied Slashdot? [1] It was very silly, the top headline was "Linux Possibly Defamed Somewhere" [1] http://www.suck.com/daily/99/12/13/daily.html (the layout has not aged well on this one, sorry. pre-CSS days)
I liked sparklepony pink better.
Edit: over a decade ago, actually! https://www.cnet.com/news/good-one-slashdot/
The best April Fools event this year is reddits drawing canvas. I am already watching it the whole day and it's very interesting to see how the different "groups" interact, e.g. the current "war" between the German and French flag. You can see a timelapse here: http://spacescience.tech/place/
I hadn't even heard of this until now! https://www.reddit.com/r/place/ Someone should seriously do a PhD thesis on this thing. Such a wealth of human interaction.
Yes, all the subreddits/factions/projects created for this subs and their interaction between each other is highly fascinating. If I were in social/behavioral science I would be very tempted to do research and write about it.
I guess you could at least write one paper just about the blue corner in the bottom left. It started very strong but then somehow it lost steam and people left for other projects.