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SimplePie and Magpie are NOT merging. 2 Apr 2007

Just for the record, SimplePie and MagpieRSS are not actually merging. Geoffrey and I came up with the idea for the April Fool’s joke on Friday, and I got in touch with Kellan (from the MagpieRSS project). He said he was cool with the joke, but unfortunately wouldn’t have time to update the MagpieRSS site with a similar notice.

There were a few blog posts from around the web that we saw, as well as a new digg! No, NeoPie doesn’t actually exist, and no our teams are not merging. We just thought it’d be a funny prank.

Thanks to Kellan for being cool about the joke and playing along.

Posted by Ryan Parman at 11:23 am. Comments (3)

Comment by james 2 Apr 2007 at 12:54 pm

Well the joke totally would have been funny if I had been able to find the downloads or the documentation.

But perhaps I was the only one affected by this.

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Comment by Stephen Carr 3 Apr 2007 at 12:34 pm

Yeah, while some were monkeying around I was trying to get some work done, I really wanted access to the function docs. I struggled along without it though, but be warned SimplePie, you are this close to being put on notice.

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Comment by Anon 6 Apr 2007 at 8:05 am

Ok, so not the most hilarious joke in the world, but sheesh guys – it’s not like you’re paying for any of this… Why get irritated with someone who’s going out of their way to make your life easier?

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