01/04/2008, 04:44 AM
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
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
