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Boofo 03-10-2008 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by valdet (Post 1461252)
Some interesting ideas indeed. Keep 'em coming.

I was also thinking to make a joke around {username} hack, but I will see how...

The [you] hack would accomplish that.

valdet 03-10-2008 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boofo (Post 1461260)
The [you] hack would accomplish that.

Yes boofo, I am using it, I just used the {username} as others were referring to it in this thread.

Lynne 03-10-2008 05:15 PM

I was also thinking of going for a joke regarding the {username} idea. Someone posted a hack that allows you to put {username} in the forum title. So, you could use that and then also some bbcode to change "/you" to {username} and have a pretty silly forum thing going.

Rapscallion 03-10-2008 07:12 PM

For the last couple of years, I've used the word substitution feature to alter words in what I consider amusing ways.

"Beer" became "Milk of amnesia". "F**k" became "Love a duck" etc.

This year, I've been in discussion with the person who runs the christmas card list. We're going to announce a April Fool's card list and ask people interested to PM her with indications of interest.

Rapscallion

Lynne 03-10-2008 07:59 PM

One word of warning in using the word replacements...

Our site came to be because an old site suddenly disappeared that we all used to hang out on. So, for April Fools, I made a new skin to make our site look just like the old one and then I used the Word Replacement Variables to change the names of staff to the names of staff on the old site. Don't do that!!!! When someone goes to PM a person who has their username changed in that way, it goes to the changed username person (or tries to anyway). This screwed up a few PMs that were sent that day.

Boofo 03-10-2008 10:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lynne (Post 1461649)
I was also thinking of going for a joke regarding the {username} idea. Someone posted a hack that allows you to put {username} in the forum title. So, you could use that and then also some bbcode to change "/you" to {username} and have a pretty silly forum thing going.

You have to be careful with the word substitutes as they like to mess up links if the link has the word being substituted in it. ;)

SuperJETT 03-24-2008 04:39 PM

Last year I changed everyone's avatars to random blinkies, it was a good one. I left it that way all day.

This year I think I'm going to make a thread mentioning that our bandwidth usage is high or something and force the mobile theme on everyone---no graphics, no images, etc. I might come up with something better before then.

Here's the thread where everyone talked about the avatars last year:
http://www.x-h2o.com/showthread.php?t=15526
Here's where I found the idea:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=142188

Here are the avatars, be warned:
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_1.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_2.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_3.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_4.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_5.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_6.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_7.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_8.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_9.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_10.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_11.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_12.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_13.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_14.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_15.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_16.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_17.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_18.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_19.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_20.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_21.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_22.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_23.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_24.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_25.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_26.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_27.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_28.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_29.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_30.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_31.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_32.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_33.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_34.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_35.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_36.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_37.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_38.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_39.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_40.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_41.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_42.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_43.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_44.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_45.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_46.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_47.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_48.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_49.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_50.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_51.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_52.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_53.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_54.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_55.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_56.gif
http://www.x-h2o.com/prank/prank_57.gif

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My other idea is to rickroll the entire board by forcing them to read a thread with the song/video set to auto-play.

atlambros83 03-24-2008 06:01 PM

Is there a hack anywhere that will put a delay on loading the homepage by any chance to make the forums look like they've crashed and then maybe a page can refresh saying april fools then refresh to normal?

not sure if I explained that correctly but hopefully someone understands me. lol

Michael Biddle 03-24-2008 09:21 PM

Try paul m's miserable user hack.

SEOvB 03-24-2008 09:23 PM

rick roll them!!!!


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