Derpibooru and the Future

@Luke1066  
People who get the joke would likely not click the link before posting a reply (mostly, at least).
 
You can check if they posted to this thread before receiving the badge and, if so, what the post said. (the dataset shouldn’t be too huge considering not everyone who views the thread will get the badge, and not all of them will have posted before clicking the link)
 
It still means byte[] will have a few sleepless nights, though.

@Sollace  
But what if I knew this was an April Fools joke as soon as I saw the change, but still clicked the link anyway out of curiosity?

@SuperSupermario24  
^this

@Sollace  
Isn’t it a little too coincidental that this was brought up on April Fools Day?
 
That will obviously raise some questions if it’s true or not

@Joey  
That’s really well-done and elaborate. Good job.

Tomorrow mods will look at this layout and realize maybe DA was onto something using this color scheme. It’s very easy on the eyes.

@SuperSupermario24  
That’s an edge case you can’t really avoid. Those people would have to earn their llamas another way.

Why a llama though? Can someling explain?

@Hguheyaughtnger  
DeviantArt has Llama badges, Derpibooru has sheep badge.

@Toyminator900  
T-thanks…

Next year: Sonic inflation r34 theme. No one would survive.

@Sollace  

 
Actually…
 
Since it takes a few minutes for them to refresh, badges don’t show up for a short time. I had already read the initial announcement (and clicked the link, thinking it would go to a “Ha ha, just kidding page” like normal, because this isn’t my first rodeo here) but instead I got the message to enjoy my badge.
 
And THEN I made a comment. No badge displayed there. In fact, if you go through the thread you’ll find several people wondering why their badge isn’t showing up.
 
I like the badge, and wish for it to stay. It’s not an idiot badge. And if someone wants it gone, like I said earlier they could just request for its removal in the badge thread. Would be the easiest solution.
 
The amount of people with it by the end of the day will be quite low, in comparison to the entire userbase.

@Vinyl Fluff  
I want to keep my llamb,  
but I also want my alpaca
 
What about an option to hide selected badges?

I have named my llama George. I want him to stay forever and ever

@Zeb
 
@Zeb  

 
Well that was hardly specific. I figured it out but ugh.  
Joke’s not funny when it messes up your ability to use the site.

@Vinyl Fluff  
I suspect that’s just due to their glitchy caching mechanism though, not actually a delay in the database getting updated.
 
Edit: Like how post counts and avatars don’t update immediately, even though they obviously do)

It’s annoying to locate posted links in comments in this theme.  
But the colours are growing onto me.

Bring back the desktop pones!

@Sollace  
I saw “badges” and the “/fool” URL and immediately clicked! I am badge-hungry.

@Ihhh  

 
That’s partially because some of us have worked for companies that behave(d) like this. The really frightening thing is how easily some of us can visualize and operationalize our world class competencies and core synergies, setting exceptional brand trajectories and management philosophies.
 
I feel like as a part of all of this work, the whole team has effectively distilled our identity through proactive client-centric synergies and achieved our core value-added experiences. Our operations team and use cases are on their way to best of breed seamless integration.

@Ciaran  

 

@Zeb  

Derpibooru partnering with Deviant Art….
 
(Checks date….)

@Sollace
 
Aw. I was hoping for something like Excellencia, Approvia, Disapprovia, and El Discuscador Azúl.

What’s with all the these non-llamas? I thought this was supposed to be a TENG fansite now!