^

No objections to "activated by default" approaches whatsoever. I mean, how else are folks supposed to get pranked?
Nothing against those who enjoy and embrace these events, either. Fine and valid, more power to you.

But please, create an option SOMEWHERE in the user/account settings, for those who've had their fill of fun, and/or whose experience is genuinely, unironically, negatively impacted by things like this, to turn these things off and return to their normal e621 browsing experience early. I'm actually begging you.

Upsides:
- Per opt-out/"activated by default," Everyone still gets pranked
- Those who want to have their fun, can have their fun and continue rolling with it
- Anyone who doesn't (or for medical reasons/language-based reasons/etc, can't) enjoy it, isn't forced to be stuck with it
- The amount of potential "I hate this, turn it off!!" complaints will likely drop, significantly
- Anyone who WOULD complain, could just find the option and turn it off themselves, quietly and respectfully, without impacting the willing participants' enjoyment

Downsides (imaginary):
- "A lot of work's been put into this already, so putting more unnecessary work into making a desirable "turn off the obnoxious feature" feature would just ruin the point of this perfectly good obnoxious feature!"

Actual downsides:
- Literally none.

(Also, yes, I'm fully aware of e926 and its "no filter" state. Unfortunately, I'm not interested in limiting my browsing to a site that filters "Everything Else.")

Thanks in advance, potentially.

but April Fools events are supposed to annoy the userbase, that's the point. April 1st is the one day of the year when the staff gets to stand by and watch the users who regularly file pointless tickets, make dumb comments, post irrelevant images, and all the other stuff users do all the time, panic in the streets knowing that there is no one coming to save them from themselves.

sipothac said:
but April Fools events are supposed to annoy the userbase, that's the point. April 1st is the one day of the year when the staff gets to stand by and watch the users who regularly file pointless tickets, make dumb comments, post irrelevant images, and all the other stuff users do all the time, panic in the streets knowing that there is no one coming to save them from themselves.

I second this. Besides, with some good use of vocab, you can avoid the mischief and make a fun game at the same time :)

sipothac said:
but April Fools events are supposed to annoy the userbase, that's the point. April 1st is the one day of the year when the staff gets to stand by and watch the users who regularly file pointless tickets, make dumb comments, post irrelevant images, and all the other stuff users do all the time, panic in the streets knowing that there is no one coming to save them from themselves.

Yeah, but a toggle in settings you'd have to manually flip would preserve this and still let people opt out if need be for accessibility reasons. This prank is hell for my dyslexia.

This.
This is not funny if it isn't something everyone can enjoy.
Please either undo it or code in a way to stop it.

Yeah +1 honestly, just for accessibility's sake. Like nimphia said, this impacts dyslexic users severely - it's all in good fun and I think it's very funny and would not turn it off myself, but an on-by-default hidden switch deep in the settings wouldn't hurt the joke, it would just allow people who really need to turn it off to do so.

I hate and love this OWO crap as who would suspect an Apr. 1 prank on March 31st. While is does give me a big ass headache it is incredibly funny. :D

I wonder 

whyamihere9876543 said:
I hate and love this OWO crap as who would suspect an Apr. 1 prank on March 31st. While is does give me a big ass headache it is incredibly funny. :D

It's due to it being April 1st somewhere

cloudpie said:
Yeah +1 honestly, just for accessibility's sake. Like nimphia said, this impacts dyslexic users severely - it's all in good fun and I think it's very funny and would not turn it off myself, but an on-by-default hidden switch deep in the settings wouldn't hurt the joke, it would just allow people who really need to turn it off to do so.

honestly, if ?fool=false worked it'd probably be enough, I don't think it's not too difficult to make a user script that appends that to the URL.

lickario said:
^

No objections to "activated by default" approaches whatsoever. I mean, how else are folks supposed to get pranked?
Nothing against those who enjoy and embrace these events, either. Fine and valid, more power to you.

But please, create an option SOMEWHERE in the user/account settings, for those who've had their fill of fun, and/or whose experience is genuinely, unironically, negatively impacted by things like this, to turn these things off and return to their normal e621 browsing experience early. I'm actually begging you.

Upsides:
- Per opt-out/"activated by default," Everyone still gets pranked
- Those who want to have their fun, can have their fun and continue rolling with it
- Anyone who doesn't (or for medical reasons/language-based reasons/etc, can't) enjoy it, isn't forced to be stuck with it
- The amount of potential "I hate this, turn it off!!" complaints will likely drop, significantly
- Anyone who WOULD complain, could just find the option and turn it off themselves, quietly and respectfully, without impacting the willing participants' enjoyment

Downsides (imaginary):
- "A lot of work's been put into this already, so putting more unnecessary work into making a desirable "turn off the obnoxious feature" feature would just ruin the point of this perfectly good obnoxious feature!"

Actual downsides:
- Literally none.

(Also, yes, I'm fully aware of e926 and its "no filter" state. Unfortunately, I'm not interested in limiting my browsing to a site that filters "Everything Else.")

Thanks in advance, potentially.

On the flip side, I almost want a permanent option. This is the best.

How the hell do I disable the uwu speak I can barely read this shit

ohhh i thought i was going insane???

i dunno, this is fukin funny

It's SO hard to read through this, and it's infuriating hilarious. I love it.

+1

Its one day on furry archive site, we'll live

yetanothertemp said:
This.
This is not funny if it isn't something everyone can enjoy.

I disagree with this logic.

There's always going to be someone who can't enjoy a prank. Trying to make something that is inoffensive to all will simply result in a extremely sanitized and watered down outcome, thereby appealing to absolutely no one and defeating the point to begin with.

purelyforablacklist said:
Its one day on furry archive site, we'll live

agreed. Worst case scenario: people take a day's break from e621. Not the end of the world

aster1 said:
On the flip side, I almost want a permanent option. This is the best.

Agreed.

I agree

popoto said:
I disagree with this logic.

There's always going to be someone who can't enjoy a prank.

Then let those people opt out??? Problem solved? Not hard to understand.

k9not said:
Then let those people opt out??? Problem solved? Not hard to understand.

Problem is already solved by taking a break from this site at the very worst. A single day. Just because some people don't like the joke doesn't make it an issue.

Go to /static/theme (Themes/Gestuṙes at the bottom of each page) and study the text to go back ahead of time ^w^

earlopain said:
Go to /static/theme (Themes/Gestuṙes at the bottom of each page) and study the text to go back ahead of time ^w^

Thank you so much!!

popoto said:
I disagree with this logic.

There's always going to be someone who can't enjoy a prank. Trying to make something that is inoffensive to all will simply result in a extremely sanitized and watered down outcome, thereby appealing to absolutely no one and defeating the point to begin with.

Should have phrased that better.
I ment that if it it's not something everyone can enjoy from an ACCESSIBILITY perspective.

popoto said:
Problem is already solved by taking a break from this site at the very worst. A single day. Just because some people don't like the joke doesn't make it an issue.

Imagine being so full of yourself that your solution to people asking for an OPTION to make the site readable is "Just don't use the site".

calydor said:
Imagine being so full of yourself that your solution to people asking for an OPTION to make the site readable is "Just don't use the site".

honestly, the only person I felt bad for is Nimphia, most of the other users just:

Oh, god, it's so cwinge, get da cwinge away fwom me, I'm wittewawwy dying fwom how cwinge dis is.

when like, brother, you're on a furry website, a grand majority of content on this website is people shipping animals from pop fiction together, it's all cringe, suck it up.

earlopain said:
Go to /static/theme (Themes/Gestuṙes at the bottom of each page) and study the text to go back ahead of time ^w^

Thank you, appreciate it!