🔴 The Button Has Ended 🔴
Thank you to all that played :)
The Button may be back in the future!
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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.
Thank you demigodrick, this was a great experience! I do hope for another season of The Button! 😄
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!
Hi, I missed this whole thing until after it ended :x
A good number of people didn't press... and the timer died out....
Happened at around 5:30am Eastern DST. so we missed out on most of Canada and the US helping 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 :)
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.
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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
Pictures for Sad Children!
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.
You were the one!
I didn't intend for this to happen! Especially when we were so close to overtaking purple... It was pretty funny though
It's ok! All good things come to an end, but many more will continue to come our way!
My worst fears realized: it ended when i was away, between work and home. :(
I had a funny feeling that I should blow my load before I went to bed, and I'm glad I did.
Definitely not a bad decision. It's weird because activity picked up as the morning came, so i wasn't worried about it at all.
Then, in the hour i was gone, it died. Bummer.
Hahaha I was wondering if you stayed till the end :D
I at least wanted to be there to keep it going if it was about to time-out! As the morning arrived, activity in chat and joins picked up so i wasn't worried about it, but then it died in the hour i was away. I was so bummed because i could have easily kept a closer eye, if necessary. I just didn't think it was.
My bet: the buttons dies after less than six hours, because most people on Lemmy are living in European or American timezones.
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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?
It's sad that it's dead already. But the world is much larger than the US, it only makes sense to start it at UTC April 1st, in my opinion
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!
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.
Purple for the win! Not even Godrick's extra clicks could save team green
Hey the second clicker! Congrats on the Purple win!
I was sad you lost your fastest reaction time!
I didn't press the reddit one, guess I'll press this one
Team Red could really use some help. Let's make this comeback happen!
Good luck!
I wish I didn't have the memory of a goldfish because I would touch that button so good
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!
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