LifeWiki:April Fools'

This page serves as an archive of past community April Fools' jokes.

2010

• The phi calculator was modified to pretend to produce the fine structure constant. The hexadecimal digits, instead of being ABCDEF, were APRILF, where O is 0 in APRILF00L.

2018

• A 16×16 soup was posted which produces a loafer; this is not an actual natural soup, but rather reverse-engineered from the loafer itself.
• A fake synthesis for Sir Robin was also posted.

2020

• Completely by coincidence (it was never intended to be April 1), an actual loafer soup was found.

2021

• On Discord, the server icon was rotated.

2022

• On Discord, the Caterer bot was renamed Glider and had its icon switched to a caterer. (Normally, it's called Caterer and looks like a glider.)
• The Speed Orthogonoid was legitimately constructed.
• hotdogPi posted four oscillators in the oscillator discussion thread, two of which were real and two of which were fake.
• Catagolue's logo changed from blue to green.
• The Discord Catagolue bot posted a fake p38 that linked to Never Gonna Give You Up.

2023

• On Discord, the server icon was changed to a fishhook.
• 72P119 was legitimately found.
• 51P384 was legitimately found. As a "fool", it was presented as a partial p64 asking for a completion rather than a complete p384.
• hotdogPi posted nine oscillators in the oscillator discussion thread, two of which were real and the rest of which were fake.
• The Discord Catagolue bot posted a fake ZZ_EXPLOSIVE that linked to Never Gonna Give You Up.

2024

• On Discord, the server icon was changed to a candelabra.
• Period1GliderGun posted seven oscillators in the oscillator discussion thread, four of which were real and three of which were fake.

2025

• On Discord, the server icon was changed to a bug from Bosco's Rule.
• A fictitious Lifeline Volume 12 was created.
• LifeViewer was modified so that a specific (3,1)c/8 partial would look complete. This was known as the "secret moderator camelship", as it was posted in the Moderator Discussion portion of the forum and released to everyone else on April 1 as a "leak".