Awesome spoof! Bogus "BGG down" login screen!
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THE MAVERICK
Apr 1, 2012, 9:38:38 AM4/1/12
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Seriously, you guys haven't found it yet? The "site down" screen is
bogus... hint: try mousing over the game icons in the circles around
the yoga geek (BTW I could only get this to work in Internet Explorer,
not Firefox, for some reason.)
Great April Fool's spoof guys - now on to find the April 1 Easter Eggs!
bogus... hint: try mousing over the game icons in the circles around
the yoga geek (BTW I could only get this to work in Internet Explorer,
not Firefox, for some reason.)
Great April Fool's spoof guys - now on to find the April 1 Easter Eggs!
JE in E dot COM
Apr 1, 2012, 9:43:17 AM4/1/12
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That's clever! Had me fooled for a bit, coz it looked the same as the earlier "site down" screen!
Kevin in Kansas
Apr 1, 2012, 9:43:46 AM4/1/12
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Hmmm, only works with Lazarus and Safari for me. Weird.
Monkeyhandz
Apr 1, 2012, 9:44:38 AM4/1/12
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Oh what - that is so nasty. Going to be lots of complaints about this
one.
PS: yup the general forum is full of complaints.
one.
PS: yup the general forum is full of complaints.
DancerInDC
Apr 1, 2012, 9:48:01 AM4/1/12
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Huh? I've tried it in Explorer, Chrome and Firefox - no dice.
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Gastel
Apr 1, 2012, 9:49:55 AM4/1/12
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At which point you were fooled.
ThatSteveGuy
Apr 1, 2012, 9:51:53 AM4/1/12
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I tried it, but all I could get too was Poisson d'avril.
DancerInDC
Apr 1, 2012, 9:54:01 AM4/1/12
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Well that's just annoying. Never tease an addict.
Verkisto
Apr 1, 2012, 9:54:29 AM4/1/12
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I don't see anything in the page code that suggests this thread is
anything but a prank.
anything but a prank.
lennys
Apr 1, 2012, 9:57:25 AM4/1/12
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Perhaps the grand BGG prank is an epic study in the psychological
repsonse to the apparent "downess" of that-which-should-never-be-down.
Tread carefully, Geeks.
repsonse to the apparent "downess" of that-which-should-never-be-down.
Tread carefully, Geeks.
Stasia Doster
Apr 1, 2012, 10:01:05 AM4/1/12
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Well, I have tried Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and nothing!
On Sunday, April 1, 2012 8:38:38 AM UTC-5, THE MAVERICK wrote:
On Sunday, April 1, 2012 8:38:38 AM UTC-5, THE MAVERICK wrote:
JohnnyDollar
Apr 1, 2012, 10:06:05 AM4/1/12
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Found it, cool! So far I've only been able to find it on the Opera
browser. I wonder if they have some kind of randomizer that
determines which browser works on each user's computer, guess you have
to try them all until you find one.
Once you get in though, BGG is back to normal, very fast!
browser. I wonder if they have some kind of randomizer that
determines which browser works on each user's computer, guess you have
to try them all until you find one.
Once you get in though, BGG is back to normal, very fast!
HuginnGreiling
Apr 1, 2012, 10:09:12 AM4/1/12
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Johnny, I'm assuming this is a ploy to get people to use Opera (which
I approve).
However, I've always used Opera, and it's no dice for me. No links in,
it's the usual dead page, with the following code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Geek</title>
</head>
<style>
body
{
font-family: arial;
background-color: lightsteelblue;
}
.titlebox
{
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
border: solid 2px black;
padding: 1em;
width: 800px;
text-align: center;
background-color: white;
}
.sf
{
font-size:15px;
}
ul
{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
ul li
{
padding:0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
text-align:left;
}
</style>
<body>
<center>
<div class='titlebox'>
<img src="http://files.boardgamegeek.com/images/geekdo/geekdo.jpg">
<div>The site is down for maintenance</div>
<div class='sf'>We apologize for the inconvenience</div>
<div style='margin-top:1em;'>
Addicts <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down">go here</a>
for support.
</div>
</div>
</center>
</body>
</html>
I approve).
However, I've always used Opera, and it's no dice for me. No links in,
it's the usual dead page, with the following code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Geek</title>
</head>
<style>
body
{
font-family: arial;
background-color: lightsteelblue;
}
.titlebox
{
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
border: solid 2px black;
padding: 1em;
width: 800px;
text-align: center;
background-color: white;
}
.sf
{
font-size:15px;
}
ul
{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
ul li
{
padding:0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
text-align:left;
}
</style>
<body>
<center>
<div class='titlebox'>
<img src="http://files.boardgamegeek.com/images/geekdo/geekdo.jpg">
<div>The site is down for maintenance</div>
<div class='sf'>We apologize for the inconvenience</div>
<div style='margin-top:1em;'>
Addicts <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down">go here</a>
for support.
</div>
</div>
</center>
</body>
</html>
HuginnGreiling
Apr 1, 2012, 10:11:27 AM4/1/12
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It *would* be bad if the site were available through the "Go here for
support" link ...
support" link ...
PzVIE
Apr 1, 2012, 10:11:32 AM4/1/12
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Have you activated the "Display hidden code" function in Opera?
eracer68
Apr 1, 2012, 10:13:26 AM4/1/12
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I would have to say that the OP and the others claiming this works for
them are just being trolls. I would guess that BGG derives most of its
earnings from advertising so it would make sense to prevent eyeballs
onto the site ... especially after being down for two days. Yeah,
right.
On Apr 1, 8:38 am, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
them are just being trolls. I would guess that BGG derives most of its
earnings from advertising so it would make sense to prevent eyeballs
onto the site ... especially after being down for two days. Yeah,
right.
On Apr 1, 8:38 am, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Aenea
Apr 1, 2012, 10:16:52 AM4/1/12
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Trolls? Seriously? Forgetting it is April Fools Day huh? :)
THE MAVERICK
Apr 1, 2012, 10:33:04 AM4/1/12
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There's no troll like an April Fool's troll! But it is too bad the
site went back down for real before some of the later posters could
get the secret login to work... back down again for me too. :-/
site went back down for real before some of the later posters could
get the secret login to work... back down again for me too. :-/
HuginnGreiling
Apr 1, 2012, 10:45:52 AM4/1/12
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There was no secret login for me ... it just worked, until about an
hour and a half ago. Same as usual. Then it was down again, like now.
On Apr 1, 9:33 am, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
hour and a half ago. Same as usual. Then it was down again, like now.
On Apr 1, 9:33 am, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
eracer68
Apr 1, 2012, 11:48:03 AM4/1/12
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Sorry, I was just being grumpy. Lack of vitamin BGG does that to a
guy. :-D
On Apr 1, 9:33 am, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
guy. :-D
On Apr 1, 9:33 am, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
eracer68
Apr 1, 2012, 11:49:33 AM4/1/12
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But its still so slooooooooow. <insert zombie smiley here>
eracer68
Apr 1, 2012, 11:52:21 AM4/1/12
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Well, it appears to be down again. I did capture this status update
from Aldie from this morning, Sunday April 1st, 2012 at 10:15 AM CDT.
Hi Y'all
Once again I apologize for the massive underestimate of downtime this
weekend. As you can see we're back up and running (albeit slowly).
Unfortunately I need to get some sleep before I can tackle the
problems that the new setup is causing.
Please have patience - we will get the kinks worked out.
Oh, and a bonus - no silly April Fool's prank this year (I think).
from Aldie from this morning, Sunday April 1st, 2012 at 10:15 AM CDT.
Hi Y'all
Once again I apologize for the massive underestimate of downtime this
weekend. As you can see we're back up and running (albeit slowly).
Unfortunately I need to get some sleep before I can tackle the
problems that the new setup is causing.
Please have patience - we will get the kinks worked out.
Oh, and a bonus - no silly April Fool's prank this year (I think).
Andy Beaton
Apr 1, 2012, 10:13:21 AM4/1/12
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On Apr 1, 9:38 am, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Dumon
Apr 1, 2012, 9:53:32 AM4/1/12
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Well, this is not really a funny one. First BGG is down for the better
part of two days, and then this...
...plus, I tried Firefox which (as pointed out) does not work, and
then tried IE which does not work for me, either...
For users like me, who are disinclined to install more browser stuff,
this is more of an annoyance than a joke. Laugh all you want about me,
but this is not funny.
Reading several entries here for the last few days, I was really
thinking about donating money net time I had any (which always is not
really much, if any). But if this is the joke, then I think BGG can
live without my donation...
On 1 Apr., 15:38, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
part of two days, and then this...
...plus, I tried Firefox which (as pointed out) does not work, and
then tried IE which does not work for me, either...
For users like me, who are disinclined to install more browser stuff,
this is more of an annoyance than a joke. Laugh all you want about me,
but this is not funny.
Reading several entries here for the last few days, I was really
thinking about donating money net time I had any (which always is not
really much, if any). But if this is the joke, then I think BGG can
live without my donation...
On 1 Apr., 15:38, THE MAVERICK <themaverick73newsg-li...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Dumon
Apr 1, 2012, 9:50:32 AM4/1/12
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Moe45673
Apr 1, 2012, 10:52:14 AM4/1/12
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There's no secret login. View the page source, there is only one <a>
tag and that is to come to this Google group
tag and that is to come to this Google group
JoffW
Apr 1, 2012, 11:01:38 AM4/1/12
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Very clever! Very small mouse-over though.
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