I can assure you this is not an April Fools. Cloudflare does not do that. This is a real project.

I can assure you this is not an April Fools. Cloudflare does not do that.

It should. I miss the days when tech was interesting and fun.

Even Steve Jobs, for all his later-day revisionist hard-assed reputation, enjoyed the occasional Easter egg, inside joke, or April Fool's joke.

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HeWhoLurksLate 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I appreciate a good April Fools joke, I also appreciate CloudFlare's approach of "we're extra serious today, here's some useful stuff for ya"

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sophacles 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There were some years in the 90s and early 2ks that had good april fool's jokes, and that was what bubbled up. Not everyone did, so the novelty also made the "meh" ones seem better. By 2008ish everyone was doing one, and most of them weren't very good. By 2012ish marketing got involved and almost all of them were terrible and unfunny.

It was a nice tradition but, like many things, the scene got too big and corporate. It was a zombie tradition for a while then slowly faded away.

In fact when cloudflare started releasing serious things on 4/1, I found it to be a refreshing subversion of the trope.

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alsetmusic 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I hated that shit. I'd load Slashdot and there was no real content or it was difficult to find real news amongst all the crap. It's not funny. It's annoying.

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Dylan16807 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some of the april fools things can be annoying, but I have a big shrug for there being less real news for a day. Anything important will get through and most days don't have much interesting news anyway.

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reaperducer 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I feel bad for you. That's a lot of anger over virtually nothing.

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alsetmusic 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Would you be annoyed if HN went offline just for the hell of it for a day every year?

But you're right, I was an extremely angry person back then. Many years of therapy and deliberate ongoing work and I'm a radically different man. Thank goodness I got to the other side.

	▲	reaperducer 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Would you be annoyed if HN went offline just for the hell of it for a day every year? No. Not even a little. HN is not food. HN is not water. HN is not my family or my job or in any way vital to my life. It's an amusement. A diversion. I am not a FOMO victim.