You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky

Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by brmgb on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:03PM (#36934751)

This reminds me of the Button [1] experiment Reddit held in 2015. The interplay between the effect of the countdown reaching zero, the badge associated with clicking and the single use mechanics were quite interesting to witness. It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by abra0 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:18PM (#36936086)

>It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time.

Hah, that's a blast from the past. One reason it lasted as long as it did was the Knights of the Button, users who collaborated to keep it alive. I implemented the Zombie-presser, 1k+ donated accounts automatically pressing the button when no one else would. We kept it alive for a more then a month before the most embarrassing bug of my career finally killed it :D Good summary here [1].

Fun times! Thank you for the reminder :D

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/reddits-m...

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by teaearlgraycold on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:47PM (#36936347)

What was the bug?

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by abra0 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:24PM (#36936622)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Knightsofthebutton/comments/38q9x5/...

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by Jarwain on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:50PM (#36936375)

> The final point of failure was even less spectacular: a co-ordinated attempt to keep the button alive by automatically pressing it with donated accounts when it got too low had been working on overtime, but a fatal flaw meant that no-one bothered to check whether the anointed account actually could press.

> The bot queued up the account, attempted to press the button – and found that the account had been registered after 1 April.

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by jackphilson on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:52AM (#36940481)

This seems like one of the first things they would check for though, right?

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by hattar on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:38AM (#36942280)

> the most embarrassing bug of my career

Though to be honest, if that’s the most embarrassing bug abra0 is doing great.

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by thatxliner on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:31PM (#36937118)

So that’s where the Hermitcraft button took inspiration from

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by dstainer on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:08AM (#36939011)

Was hoping someone would drop a HermitCraft reference!

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Re:You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky by robertlagrant on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:19AM (#36942077)

> dubbed "The Pressiah" by the community

Sometimes Reddit is excellent.

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