An experiment has begun.
There’s a button.
That’s it. Just a button… and a timer counting down.
Anyone can press it. Everyone sees what happens. And every press changes things forever.
- One shared button
- No undo, no reset
- A collective test of curiosity, restraint… or chaos
Some of you will hold the line. Some of you won’t last five seconds.
Either way, once it’s over… it’s over.
The Button
So the only question is:
Do you press it?
The Button is open to anyone on any federated platform, be that Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon… even Stegodon!
Any user from any instance can sign in and press the button, but you only get one chance.
To add another layer to this, users can choose which faction to join, and the “winner” is the faction that holds the button the longest amount of time before it eventually runs out.
Initially a press of the button resets the timer to 15 minutes - this may reduce if the game carries on for a while. At the time of this post, there is about 60 minutes until the button expires. The first button press will be available when there’s 15 minutes left, i.e. in 45 minutes, but you can sign up now to be ready!
There is also a permanent record of the first pusher :)
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🔴 The Button Has Ended 🔴
Thank you to all that played :)
The Button may be back in the future!
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!
A good number of people didn’t press… and the timer died out…
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 :)
Thank you demigodrick, this was a great experience! I do hope for another season of The Button! 😄
I am immortalized as press #69.
Without a doubt the most important press
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.
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!
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!
Small typo in the TL;DR. It says the timer resets to 5 mins not 15.
Shades of Lost, with The Button needing to be pressed every 108 minutes …
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
Having to login for this is obnoxious. 👎
They didn’t ask for your password. You tell your username so that they could send you the link to join.
I didn’t press the reddit one, guess I’ll press this one
We fought valourously, blue team! 26% of the total hold time! Congrats to the winning purple! And also to the 2nd place team green! Red, you fought great too!
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.
