01/04/2008, 03:06 PM
ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:For those who missed this event, all the forums were removed, and EP was transformed into a PSP-Hacks Forums parody. The event occurred roughly around 12:00AM - 12:00PM GMT time.
For archival purposes, this prank can be viewed here - note that the index page isn't there, so you'll have to improvise a little :P
Firstly, apologies to those who were inconvenienced by this act.
Now - well okay. I had a bit over 2 hours to decide on something to do for April fools (I'm lazy, and forgot that it was coming up). Well, typical forum jokes, such as changing the name, reversing or screwing up all the posts wouldn't exactly work here (since it's rather onrmal), pretending to be hacked or announcing some unlikely event seems to be too obvious, bland and cliche for my taste.
So, I had to go beyond what most sites do (a simple joke), and thus, turn this site into a parody of another site, known to a large number of members here.
I ended up spending most of the time designing the theme >_> But had enough time to make the forums and other minor changes (though, it's really messy, as you probably noticed). I had planned to write some announcement about EP and PSP-Hacks merging, but ran out of time to do so.
Anyways, that's how it started.
Although it's probably made some people annoyed, I'm glad to have gone to such extremes which other sites simply would never do.
I also found it very entertaining myself - some of the threads here seriously made me laugh (being at a public terminal, I think all the people around me started to think I was mental or something >_>).
[/stupid seriousness]
I liked it :P
Zinga You are the greatest!!
also really glad you archived it
squee666 Wrote:lol schmilk actually thought the site was hacked
that wasn't schmilk it was me!!
YoYoBallz Wrote:mime Wrote:I really enjoyed it! :P it was soo damn funny.... Messing around the whole time and making thread that just didnt make any sense :P
And about people not liking it.. Like does it matter if it was complete chaos for a few hours? that was the point.. Honestly theres no reason to complain or cry about something so small. it was fun.
indeed, it was sad to see some people freak out and get mad because of it.
i was the 1st one to notice it
beside zinga and most likely yoyoballz
I FREAKED
i thought some one actually deleted everything
and was killing the Void
as soon as i noticed i let the crybox know , then all hell broke loose!
my words exactly
1st shout : EP is being Hacked!!!!
2nd shout: i think «---(i knew zinga was online)
it really scared the poo poo outta me, until i notice it had little to no effect on yoyoballz
then incadude reminded me of april fools day.
i immediately went to see zinga's profile to see his local time, and yep it said it was alread 9:30 am (zinga time)
so then i relized it..
and spammed away
