Discord's April Fools' joke was that they added an integrated browser game into the app and I genuinely didn't realise it was meant to be a joke because I'm so used to them jamming in bullshit features I immediately ignore

April 02, 2026 - 22:43 UTC

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april fools' must be so hard when you're evil.
it's like, what do you do, promise something anyone wants?
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oh lmao is that what that was? I just assumed they were rolling out advertising like they've been threatening to for eons
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Stronach
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SAME😭
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Me, finding out from you, that the weird annoying pop-over panel that I got mad about was just supposed to be an April Fools joke for fun. I mean honestly, there's usually something about some game I don't care about popping up in there.
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Fuck @discord.com
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I didn't even hear about it until just now :P
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Oh I genuinely thought they'd sold ad space on the titlebar next to the minimize button
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oh my god i had no idea I DID THE SAME THING LMAO
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I thought they were just slamming the ads on the front page and I was honestly quite frustrated. I only realised it was a joke later but still... April fools have got to be very obvious, or so ridiculously subtle its funny when the reveal happens.
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100% assumed it was an ad, thought "ugh, more bullshit", and moved on
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It was fun for me to try. It's at least an idol game that you can play on and off.
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I was immediately pissed thinking it was a pop up ad and closed the app for the day. 😵
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I wish the picture frames were an April fools joke
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im literally finding out now that it was supposed to be an April fools day joke.
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Ah, that was a joke? Lol
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I think i still have it show Up.... So... It is? WTF?
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Oh, is *that* what it was? I feel a little bad for just ignoring it now, but not too bad
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Bro, its a comms app, why do we need all this bullshit. The reason it got so popular was that it's free
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Yep, it's like their stupid "quest" system. Like, dude, if I cared that much about something, I'd look it up myself, I don't need ads in my communications app.
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Oh thats what that garbage was.
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Was that the april fools joke???
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Wait, that was a JOKE????
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Lmao is that what that was? I hit the hide button without a second thought
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I did the same - honestly I thought it had contracted pop-up adds.
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I didn't even realize 😂 I got used to weird pop ups
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wait the meadows thing was april fools? LMAO i didnt even realise eitber
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oh my god that's what that was.... damn.
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Oh, was that what that was?
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is THAT what that is
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I got it 3 days later
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Oooh that's what that was...
lol, I guess.
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It triggered another round of considering alternative services to bail out to, and then the conversation about how we’ve all cancelled our nitro subscriptions in all the servers I actually talk in.

10/10 learning it was an April fools.
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Wait I vaguely remember seeing a quest pop up that was an april fools joke? It looked like every other "hey do this for some cosmetic" thing theyve sent before
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Today I learned...
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I was already looking at alternative apps because it didn't seem out-of-place.
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that was a joke?
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..dude I didn’t realize that was their April fools bit I just closed it like every other ad on their shitty platform
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I genuinely thought it was an ad because it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they started overlaying random ads all over the place.
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I thought it was a tech demo for in-app ads.
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I haven't used it in years, but from what I've heard, Discord sounds like a really sad place nowadays.
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I have so many orbs now
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Ding ding.
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I thought they were just shilling out some game that paid them too like when they have orb quests or whatever
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I didn't even see it until April 2nd so I really thought it was just some weird bullshit they crammed in there.
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Yeah, I’m still not sure how I managed to stumble into that last night.
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Oh! I thought that was some advert that got past my ad blocker.
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I thought it was just an ad 💀
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I'm realizing what it was right now. That's a good sign, I'm sure.
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was i the only one here who immediately recognized it as an april fools joke?
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Wait that fuckass leaf in the corner was the April fool’s joke? I thought they finally added ads
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Wait, that's what that was? It only appeared for me today after I updated, I was having none of it so just hid it straight away.
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That was a joke??
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i had no idea that was a joke until i read this because upon seeing that i just immediately clicked "didn't ask" to close it and moved on with my day
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True 👍
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yeah same. especially given that it was a day late I literally started bitching to my partner about them putting ads in the site before I realized
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lmfao

I just assumed it was a dumbass ad or something
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Is THAT what that was
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Wait that was supposed to be an April Fools joke?
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It was an April Fools?
I genuinely just thought they were selling out more and it was a sign of more garbage on the way.
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I thought it was an ad for something and sicc'd Ublock on it.
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when your "haha what if our app was THIS bad?" joke doesn't land, because your app IS that bad.
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wait i also had no idea it was a joke what lmao
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stoat is the way...
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Discord unlocked a new type of April Fool's Joke.
Not something everyone wishes was real...
Something everyone wishes wasn't already real.
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lol “our app is such dogshit and floods users with so much garbage they need to click thru every time they open it they didn’t even realize today’s garbage was a joke” is quite an achievement
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It's the 3rd now and I still have that!
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Holy crap I was mad about it because I thought it was an ad that perpetually covered UI elements and I didn't understand how to close it without opening it first. It instantly started up and I thought "So they just downloaded some mobile game crap onto my computer without permission!?"
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They also haven't removed it on mine so... it's been 3 days now, still not funny.
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Wait that was a joke? I thought it was an ad LMAO
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Relatable!
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wait it WAS A JOKE??? i clicked "didn't ask" so fast like yeah obviously i didn't. holy shit
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It’s was a doodle clicker rpg.
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Was that the one that let me click "Didn't ask" to hide it? Yeah, I didn't notice anything unusual either.
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oh that's what it is
I thought they just finally decided to put ads
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It was an April Fools' joke???
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[getting the ad] god dude if this is another low effort incremental game I'm gonna be pissed
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i didnt even get it until april 2nd so it genuinely was like a "oh ok they doing this now" moment
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Me on my way to immediately change the Halloween notif sfx every year when they force that shit on me.
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same. I saw it and went 'ugh what's this? get it out of my way' as if it was some collaboration / ad again :')
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Wait that thing I ignored was a prank amd not just an ad. Oops
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I legitimately thought it was an add
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Is that what that was? I thought it was just advertising again
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