🔴 The Button Has Ended 🔴
Thank you to all that played :)
The Button may be back in the future!
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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Thank you for making this event and to the mods for helping! Having the live chat and seeing every team trying to come up with strategies (plus the friendly banter!) was fun :D
I will wear my "Slowest Reaction" and "Closest To Zero" accolades with pride 🏆
With 13 hours 20 minutes my estimate of 6 hours wasn't that bad. But the reason it failed was not night, but probably people being in the office.
I wonder if people got too greedy and waited too long to press, or if we ran out of people
still lots of people with a press left, but not sure if people just missed it ending!
Can we have the button back today? Maybe with a cool down time di people can press it again after 1h or so without creating multiple accounts?
I have a lot of work to do on it, but do people really want it back so quickly?
I can add a 1 hour cooldown though for a round 2 :)
Maybe in a week or two, TheButton Redox, once you've had time to make your tweaks and a bit of word to get round.
It would be nice to see it back on April 1St for the Americans to have a go at it. But I understand it you are busy or have a life to attend to.
I think one hour is way too early. In that setup four or five people can keep it going forever.
Imo, it’s kinda lame that this ended before April Fools even began in the US. What’s the point of having an April fools day joke if people can’t even experience it?
My worst fears realized: it ended when i was away, between work and home. :(
Hahaha I was wondering if you stayed till the end :D
I check on Artemis II for 5 goddamn seconds and you people let the Button die.
I quoted GLaDOS saying “Don't press that button. You don't know what you're doing.”
… and no one pressed the button. It ended.
Entirely passed me by, what were it?
I didn't press the reddit one, guess I'll press this one
Man, now I miss the good old days of reddit April fools experiments
I love shit like this. Thank you to whoever coded all this.
Why do I need to log in to do this?
It's not asking for your password, it just needs you to tell it your username and server so it can send you a magic link. It's technically logging in, but it needs to know who you are so you can press the button (and use the chat).
This is how this kind of event always works on the Fediverse. It's not putting your account at risk and I don't really see the problem.
Small typo in the TL;DR. It says the timer resets to 5 mins not 15.
I am immortalized as press #69.
Without a doubt the most important press
Team Red could really use some help. Let's make this comeback happen!
My bet: the buttons dies after less than six hours, because most people on Lemmy are living in European or American timezones.
Been longer than 6 at least
Eastern US timezones nightshifter reporting for duty!
As am i,
Places hand on hilt and adopts a 'ready' stance
But for which team? 🧐
Get the Aussies in here
i saw red last on the leaderboard and decided to help them out but got distracted, my brain went wrong and i signed up for the blue team. to atone for this error i have resolved never to push the button
Is there a Github for this and/or possibly a framework for the chat, leaderboard, and federated magic-link login?
I've thought about putting together some simple games with Fediverse login but never wanted to deal with the low level boilerplate stuff.
No, not yet, but I am actually pulling together something around the login as I've ended up using it in a couple of places with things I'm working on, so will let you know when thats up!
Shades of Lost, with The Button needing to be pressed every 108 minutes ...
I wish I didn't have the memory of a goldfish because I would touch that button so good
Nice idea
Who pressed it first? I wanna press it so bad
There is a leaderboard on there with a bunch of stats including that one :)
Go on, press it.. you know you want to!
It doesn't like my hachyderm.io account.
Try now - have tweaked some stuff to see if its a masto authorised fetch thing going on.
Confirming that it works for my hachyderm.io account.
How does the verification work? Says it can't verify my instance.
Failing on getting your user account, possibly because the connection gets rejected. ~~Going to set a user agent ("TheButton/1.0") and try again.~~
Have now set a user agent so you should be good to try again :)
20:09:12 [WARNING] Failed to get NodeInfo for dubvee.org: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
20:09:19 [WARNING] Could not resolve AP profile for ptz@dubvee.org, rejecting
Thanks for a deep check and fix, especially since this was probably due to my own filtering/bot blocking. Working now :)
Having to login for this is obnoxious. 👎