April Fools for Forums
- Thread starter intradox
- Start date
mistypants
Well-known member
One year we put up an all pink style, complete with flower icons. On a gaming site where the users are used to dark themes, this was a rather good trick... & some users ended up liking the style so much we made it selectable year round.
Personally though I'm not really into April Fool's jokes that cause major disruptions.
Personally though I'm not really into April Fool's jokes that cause major disruptions.
TheBigK
Well-known member
Thanks. I'd love to have a new one
this time.
Kevin
Well-known member
One of my moderators had a sig image that was this tiny little bug moving around the screen, it was even smaller than the small bug you posted. The first time I saw it on my laptop I have to admit I fell for it.Put some ants onto their screen.
They'll be trying to scratch them off.
Forsaken
Well-known member
We were going to turn my site into a MLP fan site as it is probably the most cruel and annoying thing I could possibly do to my members. Sadly the staff member who was going to plan out most of the prank was busy and couldn't get around to it so we're not doing it for April Fools .
.
Adam Howard
Well-known member
Last year we did this
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/april-fools.29411/#post-341915
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/april-fools.29411/page-2#post-342991
This year.... I'd like to top it, but without using so many resources to do it (mission impossible, eh?).
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/april-fools.29411/#post-341915
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/april-fools.29411/page-2#post-342991
This year.... I'd like to top it, but without using so many resources to do it (mission impossible, eh?).
I once made everyone a moderator - not literally, I changed their custom title so it looked like they were. Caused quite a stir and gave them all something to talk about for a while (and really spooked some of them, seeing their forum nemesis made-up to mod status).
We did something similar using the [You] tags,making an announcement that [You] was now a mod
Biker
Well-known member
We've done a few over the years.
One year, we changed the colors to the most ungodly combinations we could come up with. We're talking U G L Y here. Years later, there are STILL references made to that prank and to never, ever let a certain individual (the site owner at the time) near the controls again.
Another year the owner and I staged a "coup" where I banned his account. Could hear the jaws dropping around the world.
Another year I put everyone on moderated status and announced I was going to review every single post made from then on in order to ensure it met the "new" requirements for posting. Only I didn't tell them what the requirements were.
Not sure if we're going to do anything this year. It's been rather hectic the past month or so, and I really don't have the time to generate another "classic".
One year, we changed the colors to the most ungodly combinations we could come up with. We're talking U G L Y here. Years later, there are STILL references made to that prank and to never, ever let a certain individual (the site owner at the time) near the controls again.
Another year the owner and I staged a "coup" where I banned his account. Could hear the jaws dropping around the world.
Another year I put everyone on moderated status and announced I was going to review every single post made from then on in order to ensure it met the "new" requirements for posting. Only I didn't tell them what the requirements were.
Not sure if we're going to do anything this year. It's been rather hectic the past month or so, and I really don't have the time to generate another "classic".
Add to EXTRA.css:
Code:
/* April fools theme */
/* Rotate avatars, smilies and thread statistics 180 degrees */
.avatarScaler img,
.avatar .img,
.avatar img,
.mceSmilie,
.listBlock.stats dd {
transform: rotate(180deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(180deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(180deg);
-o-transform: rotate(180deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(180deg);
-khtml-transform: rotate(180deg);
}Biker
Well-known member
Lee
Well-known member
Lee
Well-known member
I stole it from here in 2011
2011 feels like so long ago.
Mind you, so does the launch of this place.
SilverCircle
Well-known member
Note: doesn't do anything evil, just makes some fun with images on the page. You can simply paste this into the address bar of your browser (make sure, the browser doesn't remove the javascript: thing at the start of the line) to test it locally on any page with images or embed it inside $(document).ready(), window.onLoad or similar.
A bit more work is required to make this a useful prank. By default, the animations don't stop until you reload the page and this is probably more annoying than funny
Better readable version:
Code:
R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200;
DI=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); DIL=DI.length;
function A() {
var i;
var DIS;
for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){
DIS=DI[i].style;
DIS.position='absolute';
DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+"px";
DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+"px"
}
R++
}
setInterval('A()',5);
void(0);
Similar threads
