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Tagged with fun april-fools
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What are Stack Overflow unicoins? [closed]
Recently I saw a widget on the Stack Overflow website which says Stack Overflow now has its own currency called "unicoins". According to this widget, a user can earn reputation, customize Stack ...
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What is "chat with an expert"? [closed]
A box just comes out of nowhere which says "chat with an expert". It happened once on Stack Overflow and once on Meta. Is this an ad? Isn't Meta supposed to have no ads?
Here's the HTML for that ...
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We're all Rebecca Chernoff \o/ [closed]
On this frabjous day, our community manager Rebecca Chernoff has graciously allowed all of us *1 to be her for one day, and one day only. And so, ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you:
We're ...
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How to mine Unicoins faster? [closed]
I want to earn Unicoins for free but I can't seem to find the best way mine coins faster.
There are also sometimes when I get 20-30 Unicoins at one time, and I think that there is some clue so that we ...
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When something that was supposed to be fun became not fun [closed]
StackEgg! What a great invention. Probably the best thing to hit Stack Exchange since the invention of unicoins!
Very entertaining game, very fun to play. Many users have probably spent several hours ...
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The Fancy and Amazing April Fools question [closed]
I like simplicity. I like clear designs.
I like Stack Overflow.
But today, SO was offline and returned with this brand new, ugly... definitely new logo.
So what's this logo all about? That's no real ...
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Somebody to buy unicoins with bacon? [closed]
I don't understand who could even think about spending bacon in unicoins rather than eating it. But in the opposite way it looks perfect to me, i mean, spend my unicoins to get some bacon.
So, having ...
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Is my SO Coffee Mug defective?
I received a really nice SO mug as swag for the choose your own swag contest this year. Everything was working fine until this morning. Was there a patch or update or something?
Here's the relevant ...
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Stack Exchange has been taken over by a rubber duck!
I couldn't miss this now, on all SE sites:
What are the duck powers? Was anyone able to make it do or say anything other than "Quack"?
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Disabling the April Fools chat box doesn't work
There are two options in the April Fools "chat with an expert" window:
Not now
Never
I've clicked on Never many times, but it keeps popping up. How can I hide this box permanently?
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Why can't I change my name to Jon Skeet?
I had the best April Fools' joke idea. I've been brewing it for months. And it flopped.
It involved changing my name and picture to Jon Skeet. (No, that was not the prank itself.) I did that last ...
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Quack Overflow should also accept keyboard input [closed]
I love the new Quack Overflow. My coworkers noticed the yellow friend in the corner of their screen, explained their problems and got their solution. Or, well, at least found the source of their ...
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Someone's going to have to clean this up
Wow, that was one heck of an April Unicorn's Day party. But now that it's April 2nd in UTC land, look at this place. It's trashed. There is unicorn crap everywhere. I don't know how many people OD'd ...
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What to do with Unicoin scams? [closed]
I recently was approached by a trader saying they had Unicoins for sale at nearly 1/4 of the normal retail price.
How could I resist such a bargain?
I made the trade but upon delivery of said ...
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Could we get a version of The Key for our favorite site?
The Key looks really great and all, but I noticed that it is Stack Overflow-specific - it's logo is that of Stack Overflow rather than Stack Exchange or any of our other specific sites.
I'm working on ...
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Could there be an option to turn the duck into a pot plant? [closed]
In my culture, the preferred metaphor for something whose function is simply to be a passive recipient of your utterances is a 'pot plant'. I am uncomfortable talking to the duck.
Could there be an ...
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Will Stack Exchange be running something for April Fools in 2024?
Earlier this year, Philippe created a post on MSO stating that SE wouldn't be running an April Fools joke this year.
Admittedly, that post did end with
We hope to continue celebrating April Fools' ...
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