Well, that was a crazy one indeed.
If you missed it, this year April's Fools Day prank involved giving everyone on the message board the administrator status. That's it. People, however, quickly noticed and almost litteraly turned the board into a full-scale war wasteland. Within an hour, the layout was changed; within two, all topics had been deleted; within a few more, the layout was corrupted almost beyond repairs. By the end of the day, the place was nearly unrecognizable.
Screenshots!
- The board's normal look before the day started. The screenshot is actually from my testing board, which has the exact same look.
- The board, an hour and a half after the beginning. The style was back to the defaut installation, while the posts were already deleted.
- The board, later during the day. All styles had been deleted, so someone created a new one without putting much effort into it.
- The board, late in the day. Hollow created a new pink theme which was close enough to the original to make the thing easy to browse once again. The board was closed at midnight in this state.
I also registered as "dudeguy" to fool around a bit with some members, who never suspected a thing. If only someone had a doubt, a simple IP check would have given me out...
And now, time for this year's stats!
- At least 8 people were panicked enough to send me PMs and e-mails about this, although I know that several others were confused at first!
- The news of the apparent "hacking" was carried over to at least 3 other websites.
- I probably banned Mega X.exe at least 8 times through the day!
- The Interordi.com entry page was loaded about 20 times as much as the usual!
- people suspected that I was behind dudeguy!
- The board was down for 33 days during the transition between XMB and IOBoard!
Of course, the minute before I started up the event, I backed up the complete board database so that we wouldn't lose anything. The content you see now is the result of that backup.
So, questions? Comments? Critics?
Edited by Dr. Cossack on September 29, 2013 at 1:08:57
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<- Other background I used:P