[slumos]

That seems like a ridiculous thing to say. That said, I actually came to the comments to wonder just how much total effort would have gone into this from proposal, through approval and sign-offs by multiple technical and non-technical teams, before finally getting through to production. Anyone have an educated guess? I’m really curious even though I don’t believe it should sway opinion on whether to do it or not. The value is spread across employee morale and however many millions of users have their day brightened a little.

[mikestew]

That said, I actually came to the comments to wonder just how much total effort would have gone into this from proposal, through approval and sign-offs by multiple technical and non-technical teams, before finally getting through to production.

Who's to say it's not an internal training exercise? Someone(s) is learning to heard the kittens on a low-stakes project, someone else is learning to get the right sign-offs from the right teams/people, and the new test manager can spin her team up on this little project while they try the new workflow. And the intern gets to see their CSS tricks go into production to amuse millions.