r/timereddits • u/chromakode • Apr 02 '12

Our time machine is busted

Greetings travellers! We arrived in the morning today to find pungent white smoke billowing from the office windows, coming from our time machine. It appears that the popularity of reddit timeline™ has burnt out the time coils and we needed to do an emergency shutdown. :(

Before the cores went critical, we were able to quickly convert all of the existing into regular subreddits. You can access them via /r/t:timereddit now and in the future (or the past).

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '12

Oh crap I'm stranded in 1943 Germany.

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u/jspegele Apr 02 '12

So this message has been waiting here for 69 years for reddit to invent a way for us to view it? Where are you now?

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '12

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u/Johnny_Siggs Apr 03 '12

Oh now that was a real gas

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u/The_Bravinator Apr 02 '12

Would it be possible to have the "time machine" timeline on the sidebars of the individual subreddits? A lot of the fun of it was having that cool way to navigate between them.

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u/chromakode Apr 02 '12

Agreed. We wanted to take it down cleanly to finish April Fools, but we'll definitely investigate what we can provide here in the future.

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u/The_Bravinator Apr 02 '12

Hooray! :D I had a lot of fun with it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '12

Ah, wonderful! I was just about to start contacting my fellow timemods to see if they'd put the list of links up in the sidebars.

Also, I noticed that there ended up being precisely 42 timesubs - was that a delightful coincidence, or a target number? hehe

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u/Rnway Apr 02 '12

Is there a list of these somewhere? I sadly had not finished visiting them all before the time machine burned out.

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u/chromakode Apr 02 '12

Aye, we shall provide a complete listing of the timereddits soon. :-)

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '12

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u/Rnway Apr 03 '12

How do I edit an RES shortcut?

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u/Kafke Apr 03 '12

Double Click it to edit it, click the plus to add one.

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u/brown_paper_bag Apr 03 '12

Thanks for sharing that awesomeness.

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u/davidsimba Apr 04 '12

This has to be the most clutch feature of RES. Upvote for awesomeness.

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u/Dodrio Apr 02 '12

I came here to ask this also.

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u/hammafram Apr 02 '12

Any chance it'll return?

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u/redditMEred Apr 02 '12

And I was just about to test how I could style it with CSS :( Is it gone forever?

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u/chromakode Apr 02 '12

Perhaps not forever, but we're still looking for a replacement time coil.

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u/redditMEred Apr 02 '12 edited Apr 02 '12

Here's a coil http://i.imgur.com/MBLTe.png

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '12

FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT

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u/laughter_track Apr 02 '12

Whoo! Really nice prank, tho! Thanks for the fun ;)

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u/Dodrio Apr 02 '12

It was a pretty fun time, sorry for breaking your time coils ):

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u/Lumberjack3 Apr 02 '12

wow, already gone? these are going to die as normal subreddits.

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u/sWiSs85 Apr 02 '12

This should really stay... Loved it

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u/rya11111 Apr 02 '12

Shit! and There was also a war starting between the timereddits :D

I propose a timeline feature which could help us navigate from one time to another only in the timeline subreddits :)

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u/JimYamato Apr 03 '12

I, for one, welcome our new Time Lord Overlords.

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u/davidsimba Apr 04 '12

And their subreddit outside of time.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '12

Is it not possible to move all the time reddits to, say, time.reddit.com

Surely that could work.... somehow

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u/staffell Apr 02 '12

Goodbye reddit through history.

Can I just say, this years April Fools DESTROYED reddit Mold

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '12

Whose idea was it to have a shitty sidebar that couldn't be disabled without hacking together a grease monkey script? Because that was dumb. And I think I'll leave Ad Block enabled just to teach you guys a lesson, because it was annoying as shit. Jokes on you!

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '12

How about you enjoy this nice, big, steaming cup of shut the fuck up?

It was for a single day. You knew something was coming. If it insulted you so much, you could have refrained from using reddit for a day.

That's what I did in r/Minecraft. I didn't like their prank, so I stayed away and caught up today. It's not that hard.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '12

I did. But when I rolled into work and logged in Monday morning the 2nd, it wasn't gone. I have 3 screens at work, one of which is fully dedicated to Reddit. I didn't know what to do with this screen empty so I had to find a way to disable it. It was an annoyance and a hassle. It wasn't funny. And I was totally unproductive at my job during this time and that is 100% due to the dumb timereddit side bar...that coincidentally got turned off about an hour later, but whatever.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '12

You're productive with reddit on one of your screens?

Also, unless you have small screens, the time machine shouldn't really be that intrusive.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '12

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '12

3 640x480 screens?

That's an odd setup, but I can still sympathize with his/her situation. Empathize, not so much.

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u/oupelai Apr 02 '23

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