Ah, I see they even want to be Invisionfree

The stupidity must be contagious over there:

http://lobby.yuku.com/topic/1522/t/Yuku-absorbs-Invision-in-hostile-take-over-bid.html

The Myspace "wannabees" now have Invision envy too?

Yes yes, it's just having fun for April Fool's...but underneath it all, one can sense that they know their competition has grown exponentially while their user-base is on increasingly shaky ground.

It's a bit of a bizzare joke aswell, I mean, april fools jokes are supposed to be humorous pranks etc, I fail to see how that qualifies...

With the "humor" I've seen from some of them (namely one Brian James), believe me...it fits the usual Yuku pattern.

I think it's almost "Freudian" in a way though. Deep down, even their main supporters realize that Yuku is not exactly dominating the market (as they claimed ezboard was). In fact...they are having trouble moving their own user-base over from ezboard.

A better "April Fool's" joke (but one that would have been deleted if posted in the lobby) would be:

"Alert: Yuku development discontinued. Ezboard for sale due to declining revenues"

Who knows...that may be a future story and not an April Fool's joke.

No, no.

A better April Fool's joke would have been:

That joke is getting rather old Richard, beard and all. Perhaps at the West coast they were celebrating September Fool's instead in 2005?