🔴 The Button Has Ended 🔴
Thank you to all that played :)
The Button may be back in the future!
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Thank you demigodrick, this was a great experience! I do hope for another season of The Button! 😄
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 :)
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I will wear my "Slowest Reaction" and "Closest To Zero" accolades with pride 🏆
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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!
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I didn't press the reddit one, guess I'll press this one
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? 🧐
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 :)
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!
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.
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I am immortalized as press #69.
Without a doubt the most important press
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
The blue team expresses its regrets but respects the decision taken by our team member. Sincerely, Calmblue75
you're a fine ambassador for the blues, so i feel less bad that about two minutes after i wrote that i went back to have a look and pushed it by accident. chalk another one up for your guys
Thanks for the click, even if by accident!
He pressed it when it was blue
I didn't notice it 😖
me neither, what can i say i'm prone to fidgeting
Chat's paused! what happened?
Failsafe accidentally triggered, took me a sec to undo :)
Shades of Lost, with The Button needing to be pressed every 108 minutes ...
Team Red could really use some help. Let's make this comeback happen!
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Small typo in the TL;DR. It says the timer resets to 5 mins not 15.
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.
I love shit like this. Thank you to whoever coded all this.
Man, now I miss the good old days of reddit April fools experiments
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 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.
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