A round of applause to all the mods and participants!

As a longtime reader of the sub - that was the smartest, funniest April Fools I've seen in a long time. Well done and thanks!

Someone gilded my joke account, /u/Marshal_GK_Zhukov. I don't know who though, since I forgot the password to it this morning... Thank you for the gesture though, kind anonymous benefactor!

Oh, aarrgh. I didn't see this post until after I'd spent all afternoon working on my Robespierre.

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I didn't quite love this year's April Fools.

Some of the later threads are brilliant, but some folks started very early and in just regular threads by what looked like regular folks, which felt very mean. I can handle AH.com going bananas and being inaccessible to everyone not in on the joke for a day, but when it's the 31st of March everywhere except Samoa and someone starts roleplaying in reply to someone else asking about D-Day it just looks mean, especially when others give a serious response. Unless every thread with an RP response is 'artificial', maybe?

Also, the special-account shtick made audience participation a bit more difficult. I know it's what's needed for best effect, but what I liked most about last years' was that everyone could participate.

Or maybe I just didn't get the joke in time. ;)

Barrier mods have been posted to rear of thread and violators will be SHOT!!

Hahahahaha. I hope I'm allowed to make a trivial top-level comment in this thread since it's already pretty silly. Today is the best answer to anyone who says this sub is humourless and boring. Thank you for letting us be silly for one day, while still keeping the sub awesome and free of general Reddit shittiness the rest of the time.

I'm sure I speak for many of us history nerds: we wish we lived in the era of our heroes and villains, our beloved subjects of study. And this April Fools was really a great opportunity to nerd out on characters that we have spent hours and days and years studying.

Cheers to all!

Please do this more than once a year. Being able to read the sourced characters conversations was astonishingly enlightening! Even if it was just a once a month AMA with a few supporting characters thrown in -- it's riveting. Please please please!

This is my favorite April fools joke ever. Smart, funny, informative, consistently creative and interesting. Great work.

But it's still April 1st

I'm mostly a bit disappointed that my highest rated comment ever was from a joke account. Thanks for the fun though!

Well done, everyone. This was without a doubt the coolest April Fools day event I've ever seen. At first I thought they were just funny-themed gimmicks, then I realized that they were actually posting correct information and answers, and just lost it. Well-played.

Will you be turning the April Fools threads purple again, like last year?

In a few of the past years there were follow ups if I'm remembering correctly. Will that be the case here? Where applicable of course.

Echoing what others have said, thanks to all for putting this on and participating!

Thanks for the new cruelty, Chiang Kai-Shek.