List of April Fools' Day Announcements

Post by 91bananas » Thu, Apr 02, 2015, 8:54 PM UTC

M8 wrote: post #386

91bananas wrote: post #361

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I completely disagree. They run a system that is arguably very complex. I would not want to restyle my entire app (for a day) (so people like you would approve of it). They took something that was low risk, made it happen across the board, reliably. Site still works. It drums up chatter around offices. Makes people visit. Enjoy your misery.

Wow, no need to overreact. I remember VK offered Soviet and Pre-revolutionary versions of their web-site as an easter egg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_%28social_networking_website... "Russian-speaking users can choose between the standard Russian version and two extras: a Soviet version and a Pre-Revolutionary version. Other than language tweaks (e.g. telegrams for messages and comrades for friends) these version…

Post by Johnny_Brahms » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 8:17 AM UTC

sukilot wrote: post #420

Johnny_Brahms wrote: post #241

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I am just now writing a static site generator that generates a directory based website from a folder hierarchy. It is heavily inspired by gopher. No bling, no js (well, unintrusive js to make the directory listing sortable) and a focus on getting shit online. The pages are either plain text or generated through some templates using markdown. I am in dire need to clean the code up, but I will put it on github sooner o…

That sounds like Apache's default directory index