Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by troad 1181 days ago
I'm generally someone who loves a laugh, but I don't enjoy the Internet's take on April Fools.

April Fools isn't really about jokes, it's more about pranks, and pranks are hard to do well. You need a lot of shared in-group context to be able to pull off a prank that's bold enough to be funny, but innocent enough to not be harmful. You don't have that kind of context on the Internet. So instead you end up with some bland yearly variation on "Our software will substitute X for Y, where Y is something we do well and X is widely mocked and disliked. Here's a mock-up. April Fools!"

Which, y'know... eh. Far too predictable to be funny, and kind of disappointing when you're keen for a real update.