Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second.

http://dougaitken.tumblr.com/post/13849170869/hacker-news-ev-news

by dougaitken • 15 years ago

139 27 15 years ago

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Did I just see a Easter Egg / Glitch / A/B test?

Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second there!

Refreshed in a new tab & it was back to Hacker news.

(click source in the link for full scrnsht)

jwhitlark2• 15 years ago

I saw it too. It changed back on refresh.

dougaitken6• 15 years ago

So glad I'm not the only one. Been wracking my brain trying to think why it'd have a rename, even for a day.

jwhitlark2• 15 years ago

I've been checking HN off and on all day, and I only saw it once.

giulivo• 15 years ago

so this was not an hoax? (not just a modified screenshot I mean)

mcs• 15 years ago

I'm not crazy!

chrisbennet• 15 years ago

Well...the jury is still out on that. ;-)

keeran• 15 years ago

pg was playing drinking games with @ev and he lost a bet? :)

eslaught• 15 years ago

Was this a test, or vandalization? (If this wasn't intended, I'd review my security settings about now...)

raldi• 15 years ago

What does "(click source for full scrnsht)" mean?

jarek• 15 years ago

The source link is the little square icon with "dl.dropbox.com" text label, it links to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/560599/scrnshts/evnews.png which is the full-size image.

dougaitken6• 15 years ago

i linked the screenshot as the source on my tumblr post.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/560599/scrnshts/evnews.png

pg• 15 years ago

I was just demoing the convenience of the repl to Ev Kontsevoy of Mailgun.

dougaitken6• 15 years ago

How do you mean?

seanwoods• 15 years ago

Probably attached a repl to a running web server instance and interacted with it "live"?

noamsml• 15 years ago

I'm really amused by the fact that not only do you make visible modifications to a popular site you own as a talking point, but as other comments suggest, you seem to make a habit of it.

smokeyj• 15 years ago

is this his mother?

kylec• 15 years ago

9 months ago I caught a screenshot of it titled "Katelyn News" as well:

http://i.imgur.com/eDzEc.jpg

The green title bar is just my personal setting, that didn't change.

veb• 15 years ago

nice. gender specific. i'd be able to get rid of my gf. :)

dougaitken6• 15 years ago

Good catch. Wonder if pg was doing something similar

katelyndrchrono• 15 years ago

im katelyn :)

amjith• 15 years ago

Wow, this is news now?

haraball• 15 years ago

I'd call it interesting news if hackernews got hacked.

zyfo• 15 years ago

It's not news for hackers anyway.

Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second.

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