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Important Update: WordPattrn has been acquired by Yahoo!

I’ve been perusing blogs talking about Wordpattern:

• Wordpress announcement
• Technorati search

Some…

• “got it” right away
• looked no further than the “official” logo, and likely only skimmed the contents of the site, showing Wordpattern for what it is/was:
  • “merge the two failed projects”
  • “Textpattern’s legendary documentation”
  • “May contain traces of nuts.”
  • “No animals were harmed in the making of this web site, except the bunny.”
  • “links so clean, they’re invisible”
  • “collect underpants”
  • “world domination”
• also looked no further, but then realized what day it was

…thought the joke was…

• lame/stupid/annoying/boring/proof that Textpattern sucks/proof that April Fool’s Day sucks (most of the Wordpress pings):
  • “…their joke was a little bit lame…”
  • “…the dead and gone textpattern tried to pull a prank on bloggers… it really made textpattern look even more eroded than they already are. Bye bye textpattern”
  • “It was cool for a year, now it just looks tacky.”
  • “April Fool’s Day has become a damn annoyance.”
  • “April Fools has no Place in Technology”
• the funniest thing they’d seen that day:
  • “If you’re not laughing, you’re not living.”
  • “Come ON people, LIGHTEN THE (censored) UP!”
  • “I plan to switch to it the minute I get back from Antartica.”
  • “It’s all great fun really…”

Typically, I don’t like pranks, since they can be mean-spirited (various while-sleeping jokes involving feathers and whipped/shaving cream or a bowl of water, etc). This joke, however, wasn’t intended to be mean, just a silly “what if?”

Personally, I thought the “crap text” the guys put together was fantastic, as was Alex’s download file, complete with the install instructions: “Install Wordpattern”.

And no, we hadn’t been planning this for weeks, try days. Another testament to the greatness of Textpattern, actually (and ironically): the site was up and running within a very short period of time. :)