# When did the forums change?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [April 1, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618 "2010-04-01T18:58:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/1 "2010-04-01T18:58:27Z")
GQ? Where’s that? I guess this is the new GQ, by default. GD? etc.? When did this all happen? I think I’ve been around here at least once every week, sometimes more. WTF\>?
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### Author:  [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/2 "2010-04-01T18:59:08Z")
Apri…
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/3 "2010-04-01T19:00:58Z")
All these threads are April Fool’s jokes right? Like, are people really that oblivious? Are these people really taking it seriously that the forum names are going to stay this way?
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### Author:  [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/4 "2010-04-01T19:05:48Z")
I’ll assume that it’s a joke, but given how often the Reader has been changing lately - does anyone here actually live in Chicago? - I wasn’t surprised to “discover” that this board was undergoing some changes, too. The descriptions didn’t do anything except put a truthful cynicism on what’s already present in those forums. Oh, boy Oh, boy, what a funny joke.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/5 "2010-04-01T19:08:50Z")
Got calender?
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/6 "2010-04-01T19:08:58Z")
> [@CC](#):
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> **When did the forums change?**
> GQ? Where’s that? I guess this is the new GQ, by default. GD? etc.? When did this all happen?
It happened months ago. Weren’t you paying attention?
[moovderating]
I’ll just go ahead and moov this thread over to “13 Conversations About One Thing” along with the other 12 conversations about April Fools Day forum title changes.
[/moovderating]
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/7 "2010-04-01T19:19:34Z")
> [@CC](#):
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> I’ll assume that it’s a joke, but given how often the Reader has been changing lately - does anyone here actually live in Chicago? - I wasn’t surprised to “discover” that this board was undergoing some changes, too.
If Atayala Capital’s idea of fixing the Reader’s finances consisted of making us change our forum titles, I think we’d all be in trouble.
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> The descriptions didn’t do anything except put a truthful cynicism on what’s already present in those forums. Oh, boy Oh, boy, what a funny joke.
That IS humor to some idiots, yes. Around her we call those idiots ‘the staff.’ 😉
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### Author:  [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/8 "2010-04-01T19:21:30Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> If Atayala Capital’s idea of fixing the Reader’s finances consisted of making us change our forum titles, I think we’d all be in trouble…
To look at what’s left of the Reader, I think you ARE in trouble.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/9 "2010-04-01T19:26:48Z")
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> Marley23
> One of Dex’s socks
Dammit, that’s supposed to be secret!
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### Author:  [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/10 "2010-04-01T19:27:19Z")
Lighten up, Fran **CC** is.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-forums-change/534618/11 "2010-04-01T19:28:20Z")
Wow. Even I’m not so cynical as to get upset about this. It may not make me laugh, but I’m all for adding a little fun to this place every now and again.