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Didn't Reddit do something like this with one of their April 1st experiments? What ever happened with that? Ah, here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_
by klenwell 6y ago
Didn't Reddit do something like this with one of their April 1st experiments? What ever happened with that?
Ah, here we go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
Looks like it lasted about 4 months. So I guess that gives us a baseline for the over-under on the lifetime of this site.
- harryh 6y agoThe major difference is that an individual reddit account could only press the button once and anonymous presses were not allowed. A single person can send an unlimited number of messages to this new website. Given that I would expect this to go longer. On the other hand, The Button was an april fools experiment on one of the internet's most popular websites and thus garnered a ton of attention. This could easily fade into obscurity much faster. So who knows!
- DC-3 6y agoAlso worth noting that accounts created after the start of the event were barred from participating.
- dna_polymerase 6y agoAlso no recaptcha on the form, so I guess at some point the spam bots of this world will keep this running.
- pjfin123 6y agoWikipedia says 2: "the countdown timer reached zero and ended 2 months and 4 days after it had begun" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
- whymauri 6y agoI miss when Reddit April Fools was fun :(
- yreg 6y agoThis year's was decent fun, although it was solved in a day or two.