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April 01, 2004

Metafilter hacked? Or just a little April Fool's fun?

posted by pyrrthon1 at 09:37AM UTC [trackback] (26 comments total)

This is what I saw on one page:
NO?

Un, Oui!!

Miguel #1

You like that don't you?

i'm not a member of metafilter. thi is the closest i will ever come to posting :*( so, i must take this opportunity to let you in on the web's best kept secret: http://www.google.com/. it's really good. i'm serious. haha i feel like a real live mefite now! giddy! so giddy!dasdas

posted by pyrrthon1 at 09:38AM UTC on April 01, 2004

It said "Where are the Monkeys" when I looked. ODes anybody here now anything about that.

*Looks around the classroom for the culprit*

posted by dng at 09:41AM UTC on April 01, 2004

this may or may not explain it

posted by t r a c y at 09:45AM UTC on April 01, 2004

*sniffs*

All I get is a measly ColdFusion error.

posted by tracicle at 10:20AM UTC on April 01, 2004

HoLY @#$%!

posted by orbit at 10:42AM UTC on April 01, 2004

Um, I think I broke MetaFilter.

posted by armaghetto at 11:59AM UTC on April 01, 2004

That sure is fun. I like, I like, I like.

Its interfering badly with my attempts at getting anything done, though. Goddammit.

posted by dng at 12:15PM UTC on April 01, 2004

It doesn't seem to be working anymore. :( Looked like fun. What type of a program is that?

posted by livii at 01:52PM UTC on April 01, 2004

A Wiki program. The entire Wikipedia site is based on that.

posted by Gyan at 02:41PM UTC on April 01, 2004

"some lame ass wiki CF code" - cool.

We should do something like that here, where anyone can post whatever they want!

posted by Anonymous at 02:44PM UTC on April 01, 2004

drat. I got [flings poo] on the homepage, but it appears to have been removed. Poop.

posted by Anonymous at 03:01PM UTC on April 01, 2004

Cheers, petebest. I got this on the homepage, but now can't find it:
"Yea though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of the Monkey I will see, hear and speak no evil, nor fling no poo: for Bananas art with me; Bright Baboon Buns and Beady Eyes comfort me."
Psalm of shinything, from the book of Washoe, Kong and Grape Ape.

posted by shinything at 03:44PM UTC on April 01, 2004

I checked the Mefi status page and got something very odd. It looked like a Mefi page in very small font that you could edit yourself (although I haven't tried). Hope no one minds me posting it here:

April 1
I for one welcome our new wiki overlords.
posted by Pancake at 10:49 AM PST - 0 Comments

KICK">http://www.kickinthehead.org">KICK IN? THE HEAD.ORG?

Something here is very very broken. MeFi has no value to me in it's current state. Anyone know wtf is wrong with MeFi?



April 1
Wow. My first and last MeFi Post. Frikken non-new-member-allowing Metafilter.
posted by luetin at 10:37 AM EST - 0 Comments

Oddly enough, if you do a GIS? for Best Picture Ever (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22best+picture+ever%22&btnG=Search), you get some of the lamest pictures ever. You do, however, really get the best picture ever several times - it's just not first.
posted by NotAMemeberButWishesHeWas at 10:30 AM EST - 0 Comments


Whats wrong with MetaFilter?*

April 34
I HURT MY? FOOT.

April 1
YOU GOT? METABABY IN? MY? METAFILTER
posted by MARCHFORWEBSTANDARDS at 10:17 AM EST - 0 Comments

April 1
In a move destined to shake the Web, MetaFilter began accepting new users today. Rusty at Kuro5hin: "Cool, this should draw off the trolls from my site."
posted by ManOfNoAccount? at 10:10 AM EST - 0 Comments

MANDATE? MY? ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

posted by Mickey at 03:58PM UTC on April 01, 2004

boy oh boy this april's fool joke is wearing thin. i just want my regular mefi now. grrr.

posted by t r a c y at 04:08PM UTC on April 01, 2004

all i get is the same old Jrun error. stoopit mefi.

posted by quonset_the_hut at 04:22PM UTC on April 01, 2004

Thats the joke, quonset_the_hut.

posted by dng at 04:41PM UTC on April 01, 2004

So, is the sober monekyfilter getting any new members today?

posted by Zemat at 05:11PM UTC on April 01, 2004

monekyfilter sounds nice.

posted by Zemat at 05:12PM UTC on April 01, 2004

Parameter 2 of function Left which is now 0 must be a positive integer

That's hilarious, man.

I got your robust exception right here!

posted by dirigibleman at 05:26PM UTC on April 01, 2004


Madness stacked upon madness! Haughey, by the God who judges us all, I hope you know what you're doing!

April 1
Of course, should Matt never choose to open the Great Blue Doors ever again (as is his prerogative, unfortunately for us non-MeFites?), you can always cruise on over to MonkeyFilter at http://www.monkeyfilter.com/ . Besides, we have more bananas. --pmdboi

yeeassss . . yeeaassss . . witness the iron fisted grip of the Monkey . .

posted by Anonymous at 05:41PM UTC on April 01, 2004

I tried to "post" a comment to metafilter with the edit button, but it didn't work. Who do you think I should submit the bug report to?

posted by pikestrider at 05:59PM UTC on April 01, 2004

Looks like everything is back to "normal" on the Blue. And by "normal" I mean shrill, whiny, unending poo-flinging and general unpleasantness that has become Mefi lately .

posted by Sooooz at 06:55PM UTC on April 01, 2004

drat, it's back up.

(on preview, Sooooz gets the banana)

posted by Anonymous at 06:56PM UTC on April 01, 2004

status sez:
Damn, this assy wiki software is totally killing the box.

posted by boo_radley at 07:07PM UTC on April 01, 2004

Clogging up the server, BAH!

It's my fault Matt took it down early.

I threatened a total Monkey takeover.

Scared him.

posted by BlueHorse at 01:41AM UTC on April 02, 2004

The only danger is if they send us to that terrible Planet of the Apes. . . .

waitaminit . . Statue of Liberty . . *gasp* . . that was OUR planet!! You BLEW IT UP!! You . . MANIACS!!!

DAMN YOUUUU!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLL!

*sobs*

posted by Anonymous at 02:15PM UTC on April 02, 2004

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