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YouTube Announces That It Has Been An 8-Year Contest, Will Shut Down On April 1

22 points by derpenxyne 14y ago

jason_slack 14y ago
Oh, gosh, please No. Please dont post this influx of April 1st gags. It is a total waste of time and makes HackerNews unusable.
- cnlwsu 14y ago
  It may even overshadow the Rails or Java exploit of the week.
  - jason_slack 14y ago
    ha, ok, I can grant you that.
- joshka 14y ago
  Jason, I might be a hn n00b comparatively, but I reckon go for it. If you can't have some fun one day a year, what good is living?
  - jason_slack 14y ago
    I just feel like so many other sites cover these April 1 jokes to where we could keep HN on task for its purpose. And "some fun one day a year". I have fun everyday already. I dont need bogus news stories for me to let loose and enjoy life.
  - sp332 14y ago
    Sometimes there is one or just a couple of threads made which say "post aprils fools here", which keeps the rest of the homepage clean.
  - vidarh 14y ago
    It stopped being fun when the volume of them reached the kind of proportions that you can't avoid them anywhere. To me, this is the signal to not visit any "news" site for the following 24 hours.
zalew 14y ago
so now April fools comes on March 31st, just like Christmas season starts in October?
- joshka 14y ago
  It's currently April 1st for 1/12 of the earth's surface (approx).
  - zalew 14y ago
    Kiribati citizens must be damn excited google thought of them so soon. btw there's a google maps layer if anyone is still amused by this stuff.
- objclxt 14y ago
  ...it's April 1 for a decent chunk of the world right now, time zones and all...
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xelipe 14y ago
The money Google spends on bad April fools jokes could have been spent to keep Google Reader up another year.
- jason_slack 14y ago
  +1000. Well said.
- chii 14y ago
  but it wouldn't have gotten them the same publicity...
lnanek2 14y ago
goes to short Google's stock just in case anyone believes it
lutusp 14y ago
What's funny about this 4-1 gag is that YouTube has never been profitable and shutting it down would be a reasonable, if short-term, business decision.
nealabq 14y ago
"While your work's finished, ours is just beginning. It's gonna be an exciting decade." The vid ends with understatement.

22 points by derpenxyne 14y ago

Oh, gosh, please No. Please dont post this influx of April 1st gags. It is a total waste of time and makes HackerNews unusable.

cnlwsu 14y ago
It may even overshadow the Rails or Java exploit of the week.
- jason_slack 14y ago
  ha, ok, I can grant you that.
joshka 14y ago
Jason, I might be a hn n00b comparatively, but I reckon go for it. If you can't have some fun one day a year, what good is living?
- jason_slack 14y ago
  I just feel like so many other sites cover these April 1 jokes to where we could keep HN on task for its purpose. And "some fun one day a year". I have fun everyday already. I dont need bogus news stories for me to let loose and enjoy life.
- sp332 14y ago
  Sometimes there is one or just a couple of threads made which say "post aprils fools here", which keeps the rest of the homepage clean.
- vidarh 14y ago
  It stopped being fun when the volume of them reached the kind of proportions that you can't avoid them anywhere. To me, this is the signal to not visit any "news" site for the following 24 hours.

zalew 14y ago

so now April fools comes on March 31st, just like Christmas season starts in October?

joshka 14y ago
It's currently April 1st for 1/12 of the earth's surface (approx).
- zalew 14y ago
  Kiribati citizens must be damn excited google thought of them so soon. btw there's a google maps layer if anyone is still amused by this stuff.
objclxt 14y ago
...it's April 1 for a decent chunk of the world right now, time zones and all...
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]

xelipe 14y ago

The money Google spends on bad April fools jokes could have been spent to keep Google Reader up another year.

jason_slack 14y ago
+1000. Well said.
chii 14y ago
but it wouldn't have gotten them the same publicity...

lnanek2 14y ago

goes to short Google's stock just in case anyone believes it

lutusp 14y ago

What's funny about this 4-1 gag is that YouTube has never been profitable and shutting it down would be a reasonable, if short-term, business decision.

nealabq 14y ago

"While your work's finished, ours is just beginning. It's gonna be an exciting decade." The vid ends with understatement.