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April Fools' Is Cancelled (2014)

by adamgordonbell on 4/1/25, 3:58 PM with 1 comments

  • by adamgordonbell on 4/1/25, 4:02 PM

    This is about how lame PR april fools pranks got banned on HN in 2014.

        The issue isn't clever jokes or pranks - like most people on HN, I know the history too of course it's all great.
    
        The problem is that companies started doing it by rote as a way to promote themselves with teh hackerz. That's lame and boring. It had gotten lame and boring years before I made that post in 2014. How much lamer and boringer is it now? exercise for the reader.