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It's a joke, right? I'm guessing that the timer resets itself with a "fake press" if it reaches a certain threshold.
by switz 12y ago
It's a joke, right? I'm guessing that the timer resets itself with a "fake press" if it reaches a certain threshold.
- Buge 12y agoIt only resets when someone pushes it. It's been getting closer and closer to 0 as the days go by since it started. There are also bots waiting for it to get low so they can snag a low number.
- dbbolton 12y ago>It only resets when someone pushes it. Is there any code available to prove that?
- jeff18 12y agoLet's give reputable companies the benefit of the doubt.
- avalaunch 12y agoYes, but it's a reputable company playing an April Fools' joke.
- hueving 12y agoThere is no reputation on the line here. Nobody would suddenly refuse to use reddit if they automatically clicked.
- spectrum1234 12y ago^not getting it. some engineers love to think ux/design don't matter. on the aggregate it matters more than anything else.
- nitwit005 12y agoReputable + April Fools joke = ?
- Buge 12y agoThere's no way to really prove it without heavily examining the server in person. But I don't see any reason to doubt it.
- batiudrami 12y agoOnly that you can track the timer reaching record low values and then the rapid appearance of people with that flair. Multiple people can get the flair from one reset if they're all close enough together so the first yellow button press had about 30 people. It is possible that they're adding false clicks while still allowing it to reach lower values over time, but I guess, why, when watching people do this themselves is so interesting?
- tom-lord 12y agohttps://gist.github.com/tom-lord/6aee965d9c6a9ca63093 https://gist.github.com/tom-lord/6aee965d9c6a9ca63093
- raverbashing 12y agoWell, I've been trying to see how this works and I can't find anything Network monitoring on the browser shows nothing (maybe an anti-debugging technique) tcpdump shows an SSL connection to EC2 You really can't synchronise so many people (especially with connection latencies), I think there's some amount of faking in it.
- seszett 12y agoYou can debug the Websockets connection fine in Chromium. I think Firefox doesn't show websockets frames though.
- raverbashing 12y agoAh I see it now (at least one stalled connection, but I guess that's how it works)
- tom-lord 12y agoHere's the full (nicely formatted) source code, that I put together when the button was new and shiny: https://gist.github.com/tom-lord/6aee965d9c6a9ca63093 https://gist.github.com/tom-lord/6aee965d9c6a9ca63093
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