April Fools 2013 brought forth three pranks!
- YWS: Askew
- Mine?
- YWS: Buran
YWS: Askew rotated YWS by about 5 degrees, and could be undone by clicking the "I am a tab" tab. Overall, about 92 people did so. The effect looked best in Firefox, although it worked across all browsers; in Chrome, the text could be unreadable, and in IE, a weird dark shadow was surrounding the rotated area. As a result, YWS: Askew did not last long!
Inspired by Finding Nemo, which my nephews watch constantly, "Mine?" changed everyone's username to "Mine?". It also changed avatars to a picture of the seagulls from Finding Nemo, and you could activate this prank by clicking the "Do not click me!" tab. 297 people ignored this warning!
Both the "Do not click me!" and "I am a tab" tabs led you to the "Parrot Room." The Parrot Room subsequently became the fourth most popular page on the site; only the homepage, the forums, and notifications were more popular.
The last prank was YWS: Buran, named after the failed Soviet space shuttle program. As a quick note, the sequel to YWS: Apollo would be called YWS: Cassini and would be a feature update only.
That's about it! I threw this together at the last minute, so nothing too extensive, but there's always next year.
