Have you ever heard of exponential growth?
You sold your souls for less than a million which divided among you guys is probably less than that. I get that you guys might be tired of running the site, but you probably could've gotten closer to 2 million if you waited 2 more years. Fools!
Oh wow, you guys really got me! :P I should've know this was a joke.
But seriously, this brings up my next suggestion...the ability for authors of forum posts to delete their topic.
Thanks for the tears and then the chuckles.
Wow! What an awesome reaction! They really got you good today! NOW it's offically a great joke. Hats off to whoever's idea that blog post was.
inkspot I have no words for this, you just made me smile (I cant laugh loudly because I am at work now :P ) ... Always read till the end of article before reacting hahaha :)
Fooled me - very good. :-)
thibault and I concocted it about an hour before April Fools' last night.
First we were planning to make fake banner ads everywhere on the site, but thought that would be too intrusive.
So we decided to write the article instead. Your reaction is what I was hoping for (even though I made it obviously satirical!)
Honestly I was so upset I didn't read the whole thing or notice the tease tag. I just started seeing red...then blue. While re-reading it I quickly realized the gag. But still, like a lot of others, it was a roller coaster of emotions. At least the ride stopped on laughter but I still feel that the kid who didn't get the joke until it was too late saying,"that's not funny! Hmph!"
It's embarrassing, but i also fell for it for few minutes...
inkspot, they got you really good. Great one Lichess!
Heh, I was thinking exactly what inkspot was thinking until the end of the article. This article did get me good!
Oh and nice captcha:
http://en.lichess.org/mlA3gYgH/black