April Fools 2022 - Reserve Your New Username NOW!

[Boppo]

I was actually watching to see what would be happening on April Fools Day. I had read the previous April Fools Day threads before, and was anxious to see what they would come up with for 2022.

I have the advantage of 1. being retired; 2. having no chicks or chickens right now. So I did not lose track of what day it was or get fooled. It was a hilarious and well-done April Fool.

I feel kind of bad, though, that I had no idea that I could help the admins by doing more than playing along and not giving the game away. I posted a very silly name that (I hoped) did not tip off anybody not already in the know, and quickly got a PM telling me about the game. But it just never occurred to me that I could "report" trouble posts. Doh!

 

[Boppo]

I knew, but had a great time playing along. This was great fun, thanks everybody for a fun day and all the work that went into it.

I LOVED your post where you wanted to know how to FIGHT for your name!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I was one person who almost spoiled the joke for the mods.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

April fool's jokes are infantile and pejorative. This one with it being a site alert drew the line. Not funny.

 

[SilkieChicken123]

Yes I knew silly.
I knew after one split second that I had been fooled.

Yep, that's me. Silly MVAP. Maybe that should be my nickname.

 

[Zeke13]

I asked yesterday for Zeke-n-Dana. Did it get approved?

 

[MysteryChicken]

April fool's jokes are infantile and pejorative. This one with it being a site alert drew the line. Not funny.

They do this every year. Most of the time it's in an alert.

 

[Boppo]

Happy April Fool's day everyone!

Thanks to all those that played along

Here are some of our past years' April Fool's threads:

2007 - April Fools - BYC Expanding - BackYardCows.com
2008 - April Fools - BYC Hacked!!
2009 - Thanks Everyone! Third Annual BYC April Fools Day Was LOTS of Fun!
2010 - April Fools - New BYC Store Product: The EggCell !!
2011 - NEW BYC Program & Partnership - Sell Your Extra Eggs! April Fools 2011
2012 - April Fools 2012 - New Forums / Sections - Exotic Backyard Animals
2013 - Big Announcement: BYC & Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Partnership - BeakBook - April fool's 2013
2014 - April Fools 2014 - BYC Sponsored Study: Increase Chicken Broodiness By Up To 48% With Aluminum Foil
2015 - April Fools 2015 - Announcement - BYC Staff / Moderator Term Limits & Retirement
2016 - April Fools 2016 - New Development: Chicken Feed That Changes Egg Shell Color!
2017 - Introducing: BackYard Robots - April Fools 2017
2018 - New BYC Cryptocurrency: ChicKoin
2019 - BYC Now Fully Self-Moderated
2020 - New Chicken Breed: Quickens
2021 - Local BYC Physical Store, Café, & Meet-up & Community Center

Bravo, admins, and anybody else who came up with this and made it run! It was brilliant and such loads of fun. Thank you!

 

[Zeke13]

Wait, was this an April fools prank?
I wondered why I didn't get an email for it. Pretty good one

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

They do this every year. Most of the time it's in an alert.

Not in my experience. It's also not usually something related to site security. I've lost some respect for the admins on this. The cafe thing was funny.