Happy April Fools' Day!

CyberGene

I've created a little fish catching game for you on the forum 😀 Until tomorrow you will be able to find and catch fishes on recent discussion, posts and user profiles. You may have to scroll to the top to see them. When caught, you have to hide the fish again on a chosen by you place (or it will get randomly hidden somewhere after some time). You can also rename the fishes 🤣 There's a ranking you can see all the time. Good luck!

Del Vento

CyberGene Until tomorrow

Of which timezone?

HZPiano

😄

QuasiUnaFantasia

This is clearly put-and-take fishing. I have caught the same fish twice now. I hope they feel no pain, when they are caught. It seems a bit brutish to spear them with an arrow head.

MacMacMac

You need not throw all the fish back into the pond! Only the undersize junior fish. 🙂

Drew-r

MacMacMac You need not throw all the fish back into the pond! Only the undersize junior fish.

Just a suggestion; fry the juniors and throw the whoppers back …. else wise this could shift or create a vacuum within the ‘Clack’s power structure 🌪⚡️

MacMacMac

Hey! I caught one!

Del Vento

So is in Bulgaria also common to use fish on April's Fool? In Italy it's April's Fish and people try to attach a fish on the cloths of unsuspecting friends or passerby (drawn these days, but I think it used to be real ones). Then they extended to other pranks, but the "fish" one was still the most popular when I left that country

CyberGene

Del Vento CyberGene Until tomorrow

Of which timezone?

2022-04-02T05:41:06 UTC

Del Vento So is in Bulgaria also common to use fish on April's Fool?

Actually not. The fish catching extension comes by default with the fishes, maybe it was made by someone from Italy 🙂 BTW, I can import any pictures I want and they will get animated moving back and forth like the fishes and I thought maybe I could import some pianos 😀 But I've been pretty busy these days and just installed the extension and enabled it with the default settings. If it proves interesting, I can keep it and we can organize "catch the pianos" rounds, etc. What is curious though is this extension initially started as an experiment by a Flarum developer to test various functionalities of the forum but he realized it approached a game, so he released it and it proved very popular with Flarum users.

In Bulgaria we call it "Lie's Day" (because you try to trick someone into believing some BS but it shouldn't be a very obvious BS, so he has to believe it somehow and if you succeed then you will say "Happy April the 1st!") or "Joke's Day".

HZPiano

CyberGene In Bulgaria we call it "Lie's Day" (because you try to trick someone into believing some BS but it shouldn't be a very obvious BS, so he has to believe it somehow and if you succeed then you will say "Happy April the 1st!") or "Joke's Day".

That is very similar to how it is over here in the Netherlands.

Cheers and Catch As Catch Can,

CyberGene

@Del Vento I think on the main page the banner that has a link to the rankings may show the deadline in local time. At least to me that's the case but maybe it's because I created the round.

Del Vento

CyberGene @Del Vento I think on the main page the banner that has a link to the rankings may show the deadline in local time. At least to me that's the case but maybe it's because I created the round.

👍️

Round "April Fools' Day", catch as many fishes as you can until Today at 11:41 PM

navindra

The zinger is that there's actually no fish at all and the ranking is generated to appear convincing to folks not in on the joke. 🐠

HZPiano

I've been fishing all day and am now returning to shore to sell my voluminous catch to some exquisite restaurants.

There must be an unfortunate bug in the 'Clack though, for with this record-breaking catch I don't even appear in the ranking. That's rather disappointing after a long hard day at sea!

Cheers and happy harvesting,

⚓

David B

What happened to the rankings? We need to see the final results. I need some evidence that I was productive today. 😀

God Bless,
David

CyberGene

Yeah, that's embarrassing, I don't see the ranking anymore, could be a bug or a feature... 🤦🏻‍♂️ I will check if it's in the DB. Last time I checked before going to bed it was a tie between @QuasiUnaFantasia and @Drew-r with @David B following closely but things may have changed while we Europeans were sleeping.

CyberGene

OK, the good news is it's in the DB, I will need to remember how to do a proper SQL join to make it meaningful (shame on me, I used to interview people about simple SQL like that 10 years ago but I haven't used SQL ever since...) Stay tuned 🙂

CyberGene

Del Vento

CyberGene

Happy to be the first among those who didn't get a medal ;-)

It was fun!

CyberGene

Congrats to @QuasiUnaFantasia, fisherman No.1 of PianoClack! 🎣 @Drew-r and @David B , don't lose courage until the next year (or earlier) 😀

David B

I'm happy to make the podium with bronze. 💪