Hmm, if we're really close to being ready for launch, maybe we'll have a one day teaser and then take it down to finish working on it.

A few years ago, I did the old reversal where everything at the site was printed backwards. (Got that little trick from here, btw.) Everyone loved it and kept joking about that for months afterward. My new site won't be open yet this year but I'll certainly watch this thread for wicked ideas I can use next year... or whenever the impulse strikes.. hehe. ;)

how about one of us make a bogas news web page talking about the april fools db hack that is suspected to atack flaws on vb sites and say we did an upgrade that should protected us but come april fools we could act like we were hacked lol

Change the text from Left To Right to Right To Left :p

AWSOME!!!!!!

Good old backwards forum. Plus some other little pranks which I am still thinking through!

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/5...ilfools2dk.jpg

Last year I pulled a pretty good prank with my co-admin at the time (previous project). We ran a pretty close-knit community where everybody knew everybody and the admins were good buddies with the members...Well...a couple months before April Fools, we had been creating fake admin threads. Everything from funny to serious to pointless...We were also creating fake "battles"...we would stage fights in a hidden admin forum where it would appear as if the admins were pissed at each other. Well, come april fools, my co-admin announced that I had been banned as an admin for confidential reasons. On top of that, this fake admin section had miraculously become public! He had supposedly left on a business trip and was not able to be contacted...meanwhile, the other admins were very non-tech savvy (which was true), so they "could not figure out" how to hide the admin section.

While all of this is going on...co-admin and I are logging into a secret admin account and watching and reading all of the mayhem...simultaneously discussing it with the rest of the admins. People TOTALLY fell for it, for the entire 24 hours...we were keeping a very close eye on everybody to make sure that nobody took it too seriously and left in a fit of rage (as I said, tight-knit community). In the end, it all worked out perfectly...it was a lot of work, but couldn't have worked any better.

Step 1: Backup

Step 2: Make sure your Backup works

Step 3: No really, be 100% positive your backup works

Step 4: Delete all of your posts and members and put a hacked message called "W3lc0m3 t0 th3 st0n3 @g3! H@x0r3d!!!!1111"

For those amung us who can't read the above phrase:

Welcome to the stone age! Hacked! :D

Always a crowd pleaser...

But if you put the hacked message up - nobody will be able to use the forum. I would rather have a useable forum that still has an april fools joke.

Our board has never had moderators. We've always hated the idea. But as the board grows we're considering it. The board members would freak if we added moderators. They freak if I change a button LOL. So, we're going to announce that we are taking applications for moderators, but we're announcing it on April 1st. So, nobody will beleve it, but if we do bring on moderators later we can say we gave full disclosure. :)