Comments on: April Tool’s Day

By: Oyunlar

Oyunlar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:42:31 +0000

Didn’t Google announce Gmail on April 1st a few years back.
Free webmail with 10 times more storage than anywhere else? No wonder no one believed them

Course, they did announce a moon base at the same time…

By: oyun

oyun — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:45:38 +0000

There is absolutely no way to replace April Fools Day now. Why not declare April the 2nd to be Surprise Announcement Day? The delightful truths revealed on Surprise Announcement Day would make up for the lies of the day before.

It would be hard to abuse the occasion: everyone is alert and suspicious of good news on April the 2nd, so it’s a great day to make an announcement you want investigated, but the worst possible day to make an announcement that won’t stand up to the investigation.

And Surprise Announcement Day would cool April Fools Day down. Once people get used one following the other they’ll feel let down by a trickster who can’t follow up with a good announcement. Tricks would become limited to people who have announcements to make, and those people would take care not to let their tricks to overshadow their announcements.

By: zpinzane

zpinzane — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:08:49 +0000

Isn’t April Fool’s Day when we’re all supposed to wear green or get pinched?

By: mike

mike — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:12:30 +0000

I think this is a brilliant idea. Much better than waiting to hear your girlfriend tell you (for the tenth year in a row) she’s pregnant.

I think the people who are saying, “you can’t replace April Fool’s” are missing the point – it’s the perfect time to announce something sincere. Play a trick on the tricksters as it were.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:59:24 +0000

I’m fine with April Fools Day if it’s done subtly. Having a small joke is alright. Metafilter had my favorite joke of the most recent, slowly lightening the background of the page until it was white. I agree that most things that are done are overdone and I love the idea that the best prank announcement would be one that actually comes true.

By: fuzz

fuzz — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:00:43 +0000

Didn’t Google announce Gmail on April 1st a few years back.
Free webmail with 10 times more storage than anywhere else? No wonder no one believed them

Course, they did announce a moon base at the same time…

By: Glyn Webster

Glyn Webster — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:37:44 +0000

By: Andy Baio

Andy Baio — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:26:39 +0000

My favorite April 1 release wasn’t a joke at all, but the temporary relaunch of Game Neverending by the Flickr team. It was sublime, wonderful, and still whimsical enough that it falls under the April 1 umbrella.