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The Button: Season 4 Full Recap (lemmy.zip)
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The Button: Season 4 Full Recap

Before we jump in, I just want to say thank you to every single person who came along and played a very silly button clicking game.

Special thanks to @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz for helping me with early testing too!

If there's any other stats you want to see, please let me know in the comments!

  • Theme: Fishing / The Harbour
  • Button went live: 24 July 2026, 19:00 UTC
  • Season ended: 27 July 2026, 07:42:09 UTC
  • Button-game length: 60 hours, 42 minutes
  • Registered players: 158 across 42 instances
  • Winner: ๐Ÿฆ€ Crab Crew (Red) with 49.7% of all timer control

How Season 4 actually ended

Not on a quiet timer. Season 4 was killed on purpose, in 81 seconds.

At 07:40:47 a Leviathan slipped back into the deep, the fourth escape in a row, and battered the button for another 100 health. That was the last of it. One second later the fifth Corrupted Heart of the season fired: two hours on the doom clock, a cleansing price of 600 health worth of fish, and the rule everyone had learned the hard way, that every press of the button steals 30 seconds off the clock and drags the port closer to the end.

Seven players took that as an invitation.

Between 07:40:48 and 07:42:10, they threw 242 presses into the dark. 241 of them were banked bonus presses, hoarded over days of faction press drops and monster kills and finally spent all at once. Two hours of doom clock burned away in a minute and twenty-one seconds.

Player Faction Presses in the last 81 seconds
@suborange@lemmy.world Crab Crew 133
@squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi Crab Crew 33
@deebster@infosec.pub Crab Crew 27
@terrance@lemmy.world Crab Crew 23
@micromot@piefed.social Puffer Pals 22
@dave@lemmy.nz Crab Crew 3
@bountygiver@lemmy.ml Squid Squad 1

suborange, mid-execution, in #main: "All of the sudden I decided to go vegan." And then: "No more fishing for me!"

The last press belonged to @micromot@piefed.social. The clock hit zero at 07:42:10.

Faction standings

Control is measured by how long each crew held the timer - Red pressed the most and held the most.

Rank Crew Control Time held Presses Members
๐Ÿฅ‡ ๐Ÿฆ€ Crab Crew (Red) 49.7% 30h 10m 4,409 34
๐Ÿฅˆ ๐Ÿฆ‘ Squid Squad (Blue) 17.4% 10h 34m 1,556 39
๐Ÿฅ‰ ๐ŸŸ Guppy Gang (Green) 17.2% 10h 26m 2,062 30
4th ๐Ÿก Puffer Pals (Purple) 15.7% 9h 32m 722 35

Presses per active presser: Red 147.0, Green 85.9, Blue 48.6, Purple 24.9.

Blue had the biggest roster and the second-most control with the third-fewest presses per head, which is the most efficient conversion of the season. Red simply out-pressed everyone by a factor of three.

Unspent presses at the buzzer, by crew: Red 4,957, Green 2,632, Blue 1,695, Purple 1,461. Across the whole port, 12,589 banked bonus presses were still sitting unused when the season ended, spread across 157 players. Red's stockpile alone could have held the timer for another ten hours.

Crew contributions elsewhere

Crew Catches Weight Legendaries Harpoon strikes Damage dealt Tide healed
Crab Crew 25,937 135.9 t 3,595 27,915 2,006,874 5,526
Guppy Gang 17,819 106.0 t 2,611 17,893 1,335,043 4,114
Puffer Pals 16,987 97.4 t 2,369 15,650 916,540 2,767
Squid Squad 12,411 63.0 t 976 13,624 757,700 2,849

Red won the Tide as well: the most button health restored of any crew.

The Button

Top 15 pressers

# Player Crew Presses
1 @dave@lemmy.nz Crab Crew 419
2 @m_f@discuss.online Guppy Gang 379
3 @alfredolin@sopuli.xyz Guppy Gang 354
4 @deebster@infosec.pub Crab Crew 317
5 @macallan@lemmy.world Crab Crew 316
6 @demigodrick@lemmy.zip Guppy Gang 310
7 @tikiporch@lemmy.world Crab Crew 286
8 @suborange@lemmy.world Crab Crew 277
9 @patrickyaa@feddit.org Crab Crew 253
10 @gerudo@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 249
11 @cooperredarmydog@lemmy.ml Crab Crew 235
12 @w3dd1e@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 218
13 @firnin@feddit.org Crab Crew 210
14 @drworm@piefed.blahaj.zone Crab Crew 194
15 @owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca Guppy Gang 187

Button records

  • First press of the season: @sebas@lemmy.zip, at 19:00:06 on 24 July. Six seconds after the button went live.
  • Fastest reaction: @dmmacniel@feddit.org, 5 milliseconds after a reset.
  • Closest save: @simpliston@programming.dev at 06:49:43 on 27 July, with 1.095 seconds left on the clock. Runner-up: @fleece@feddit.uk with 1.692 seconds, and again with 3.381 seconds. @w3dd1e@lemmy.zip pulled two saves under 2.4 seconds inside 41 minutes on the 26th.
  • Last press: @micromot@piefed.social, timer at zero.
  • Median press: with 886.9 seconds still on the clock, meaning the typical press was a comfortable one and the drama lived in the tails.

When the port pressed

Busiest hours (UTC): 21:00 (946 presses), 20:00 (844), 19:00 (780). Quietest: 09:00 (74). European evening was prime time, and the 04:00 and 06:00 spikes are the overnight rescue crew keeping the lights on.

Fishing

73,154 catches. 402.3 tonnes of fish. 115 anglers.

Rarity Catches Share Total weight
Rare 23,259 31.8% 96.4 t
Uncommon 21,454 29.3% 22.1 t
Junk 14,580 19.9% 21.9 t
Legendary 9,551 13.1% 260.8 t
Common 4,310 5.9% 1.1 t

70,905 fish were sold. 2,249 were still in someone's bucket at the end.

Top 15 anglers

# Player Crew Catches Weight Legendaries
1 @yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de Puffer Pals 3,900 29.5 t 778
2 @sebas@lemmy.zip Puffer Pals 3,346 18.2 t 639
3 @alfredolin@sopuli.xyz Guppy Gang 3,194 23.0 t 681
4 @macallan@lemmy.world Crab Crew 3,065 17.4 t 530
5 @deebster@infosec.pub Crab Crew 2,766 14.3 t 560
6 @w3dd1e@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 2,178 12.0 t 328
7 @rajtinka@lemmy.world Guppy Gang 2,149 10.7 t 328
8 @tarball@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 2,096 12.0 t 478
9 @treasure@feddit.org Puffer Pals 2,088 14.6 t 232
10 @m_f@discuss.online Guppy Gang 2,051 14.0 t 322
11 @almost1337@lemmy.zip Guppy Gang 1,960 15.3 t 396
12 @dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org Guppy Gang 1,944 8.4 t 224
13 @bobtimus_prime@feddit.org Puffer Pals 1,806 8.6 t 308
14 @lnxtx@sopuli.xyz Squid Squad 1,756 8.8 t 79
15 @fleece@feddit.uk Guppy Gang 1,635 10.4 t 299

The big one

๐Ÿฆฃ The Behemoth, 272.398 kg, landed by @firnin@feddit.org at 06:55 on the final morning. It stood as the season record for 47 minutes before the world ended.

The top ten heaviest catches of the season were all Behemoths, running from 272.4 kg down to 249.3 kg. alfredolin and terrance both appear twice.

Species records

Every species record holder, by weight:

Species Rarity Record weight Holder
๐Ÿฆฃ The Behemoth Legendary 272.40 kg @firnin@feddit.org
๐Ÿณ The Whale Legendary 169.47 kg @yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de
๐Ÿงœ Wasteland Mermaid Legendary 66.24 kg @suborange@lemmy.world
๐ŸŠ Vault Croc Legendary 60.30 kg @macallan@lemmy.world
๐Ÿšข Ghost Galleon Legendary 32.01 kg @deebster@infosec.pub
๐Ÿฌ Phantom Dolphin Rare 23.82 kg @yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de
๐Ÿฆˆ Rad-Shark Rare 19.28 kg @sebas@lemmy.zip
๐Ÿฆญ Rust Seal Rare 16.84 kg @garth@sh.itjust.works
๐Ÿ™ Kraken Hatchling Legendary 14.89 kg @alfredolin@sopuli.xyz
๐Ÿข Wasteland Turtle Rare 12.14 kg @squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi
๐ŸŸ Trench Anglerfish Legendary 10.95 kg @w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
๐Ÿฆฆ Atomic Otter Rare 10.21 kg @svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
๐ŸŸ Irradiated Ray Rare 9.48 kg @spicehoarder@lemmy.zip
๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ› The Corvid Legendary 9.00 kg @brgo@lemmy.nz
๐Ÿ™ Sewer Octopus Rare 8.40 kg @tikiporch@lemmy.world
๐Ÿฆ‘ Glowing Squid Rare 6.20 kg @rajtinka@lemmy.world
๐ŸŸ Beacon Tuna Rare 5.99 kg @deebster@infosec.pub
๐Ÿฆž Junk Lobster Uncommon 3.86 kg @patrickyaa@feddit.org
๐Ÿชธ Moonshade Manta Rare 3.46 kg @m_f@discuss.online
๐Ÿ  Bog Carp Uncommon 3.08 kg @dave@lemmy.nz
๐ŸŸ Sewer Salmon Uncommon 2.74 kg @rajtinka@lemmy.world
๐Ÿฆ€ Storm Crab Rare 2.74 kg @livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net
๐Ÿ  Sunfin Uncommon 2.32 kg @rajtinka@lemmy.world
๐Ÿ Mutant Eel Uncommon 2.01 kg @bevsdad@lemmy.ca
๐Ÿ Lighthouse Eel Uncommon 1.99 kg @scuddthestud@lemmy.world
๐Ÿก Reef Pirate Rare 1.97 kg @pokeman@piefed.zip
๐Ÿ  Driftwood Pike Uncommon 1.74 kg @skankhunt42@lemmy.ca

The Dex

@snoopy@piefed.social was the first player in the harbour's history to complete the Fishing Dex, at 04:09 on 25 July, roughly nine hours into the button game. 34 players eventually filled all 40 species. Another 9 finished on 39, one species short.

The rarest thing in the game was not a fish. It was patience.

Gold and the shop

476,701 gold passed through the shop. 79,591 gold was still in pockets at the end.

Item Purchases Gold spent Buyers
Harpoon upgrade 697 281,154 85
Council tithe 1,285 71,945 52
Faction press drop 548 61,565 53
Spinach 439 17,648 61
Quick reel 278 15,306 48
Bountiful tide 162 10,942 41
Summon sea monster 40 11,740 17
Banner message 143 4,567 23
Reveal next monster 41 1,134 24
Celebration 141 700 36

The single most expensive purchase of the season was a harpoon upgrade at 3,200 gold.

Faction press drops by crew: Red 269, Green 141, Blue 77, Purple 61. This is the direct explanation for Red's press dominance and for the 12,589 presses left unspent: Red bought so many drops that its quiet members ended the season sitting on 245 presses each without ever clicking anything.

Richest at the buzzer

# Player Crew Gold
1 @terrance@lemmy.world Crab Crew 12,063
2 @tarball@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 10,029
3 @deebster@infosec.pub Crab Crew 6,344
4 @svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz Guppy Gang 4,422
5 @fleece@feddit.uk Guppy Gang 4,274
6 @almost1337@lemmy.zip Guppy Gang 2,845
7 @gerudo@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 2,299
8 @pokeman@piefed.zip Crab Crew 2,268
9 @bobtimus_prime@feddit.org Puffer Pals 1,613
10 @freeman@feddit.org Squid Squad 1,594

Biggest spenders

macallan (26,347), yetanotheruser (25,320), almost1337 (23,339), alfredolin (22,857), sebas (22,313), deebster (19,499), tikiporch (19,027), w3dd1e (18,892).

Highest harpoon level reached: 20, by @macallan@lemmy.world and @almost1337@lemmy.zip. 65 players never upgraded past level 1.

Sea monsters

63 encounters. 29 slain. 33 escaped. 1 bought off. 75,082 harpoon strikes. 5,016,157 total damage.

Most damage dealt

# Player Crew Strikes Damage
1 @macallan@lemmy.world Crab Crew 5,758 637,448
2 @yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de Puffer Pals 4,087 437,260
3 @fleece@feddit.uk Guppy Gang 3,395 304,841
4 @rajtinka@lemmy.world Guppy Gang 2,992 268,625
5 @w3dd1e@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 2,551 260,473
6 @tikiporch@lemmy.world Crab Crew 2,585 242,821
7 @almost1337@lemmy.zip Guppy Gang 2,137 239,377
8 @lnxtx@sopuli.xyz Squid Squad 3,025 225,807
9 @tarball@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 3,684 207,621
10 @felixmortane@lemmy.ca Squid Squad 2,529 171,519

Killing blows

Four players tied on 3 kills each: @livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net, @chunes@lemmy.world, @macallan@lemmy.world and @snoopy@piefed.social. alfredolin and pokeman took 2 apiece. Thirteen more players landed one.

Hardest kill: the Avenging Armada, 3,000,000 HP, finished by @treasure@feddit.org. Biggest single strike: 165 damage by @fleece@feddit.uk. Critical strikes: only 32 in the entire season, for 1,958 damage. Crits unlocked with the Grand Bazaar's second milestone, and every last one of them landed between 07:30:52 and 07:40:24 on the final morning, on a Leviathan that escaped anyway, four minutes before the world ended.

Monster HP scaled with the kill streak, and the port's success ate it alive. The first megalodon of the game had 700 HP. The last had 96,159. By the 26th the harbour was losing more monsters than it landed, and each escape smashed the button's health, which is exactly how the Corrupted Heart kept coming back.

The Blockade trilogy

Part 1: The Pirate Flagship (25 July, 19:51 UTC)

1,000,000 HP, and a ransom option at 20,000 gold. The port took one look at the hull and reached for its wallet.

The Town Council emptied its coffers eight times over, 2,500 gold a motion, and the bay reopened at 20:25, thirty-four minutes after the sails appeared. Total paid: 20,870 gold, of which 20,000 came from the council war chest and 870 from individual pockets. @m_f@discuss.online gave the most and drove the whole operation.

Part 2: The Flagship Returns (26 July, 11:35 UTC)

"The captain counted your last ransom and liked the weight of it." Same 1,000,000 HP, ransom raised to 50,000 gold. Not one coin was paid.

The council went to war instead: powder kegs for 5,000 instant damage, boarding parties dropping harpoon cooldown to one second, grapeshot for +50% damage, privateer's bounty paying 2 gold a strike. 40 minutes and 43 seconds later the flagship was on the seabed. @simpliston@programming.dev struck the killing blow. 27 hunters split the pot.

Part 3: The Avenging Armada (26 July, 21:43 UTC)

"You killed their captain, and the whole fleet has come to collect."

3,000,000 HP. A four-hour clock. A ransom priced at 200,000 gold, which was never a real offer. And a new mechanic: every minute the armada lived, it stole presses from the port's biggest hoarders. Failure meant losing every bonus press, every coin of gold and every scrap in the harbour.

The port paid 570 gold in gestures at a 200,000 gold ransom, laughed, and then killed it in 1 hour 43 minutes, well inside the clock. @treasure@feddit.org landed the final harpoon. The armada dragged 515 presses to the bottom with it on the way down.

The Corrupted Heart

Five times the button's health hit zero. Five times the heart turned black and started a two-hour countdown, with every press stealing another 30 seconds and only fish able to break the curse. The price went up each time.

# Corrupted at (UTC) Cleanse price Cleansed at Time taken
1 26 July 10:38:58 200 health 10:41:12 2m 14s
2 26 July 16:40:33 300 health 16:41:34 1m 01s
3 26 July 18:40:42 400 health 18:42:09 1m 27s
4 26 July 20:05:35 500 health 20:08:51 3m 16s
5 27 July 07:40:48 600 health

The second cleanse is the single most impressive thing the port did all season: 300 health worth of fish poured into the dark in sixty-one seconds. Across the season the harbour healed 211 hearts' worth of corruption.

The button's health chart tells the story of the last two days: comfortable in the 180s and 190s on the 24th, sagging through the 25th, and from the 26th onward a sawtooth between 0 and 80 as the monsters escaped faster than the fish could come in.

Peak concurrent players: 45, hit twice: on the afternoon of 25 July and again on the evening of the 26th.

Mega-projects

Three harbour-wide builds, all three completed, each one faster than the last.

Project Goal Donors Started Completed Build time
๐Ÿ—ผ The Grand Lighthouse 150,000 43 26 Jul 07:22 26 Jul 16:06 8h 44m
โš“ The Deepwater Drydock 200,000 38 26 Jul 17:34 27 Jul 02:41 9h 07m
๐Ÿบ The Grand Bazaar 400,000 8 27 Jul 05:54 27 Jul 06:44 49 minutes

The Lighthouse and Drydock were community efforts: 43 and 38 donors, 89,123 gold and 26,092 scrap between them.

The Grand Bazaar was something else entirely. Eight donors. Two of them, @simpliston@programming.dev (198 presses) and @patrickyaa@feddit.org (150 presses), dumped 348 banked presses into it for 348,000 of the 400,000 points needed. A project designed to take a day was finished before breakfast.

Top donors

Lighthouse: yetanotheruser (13,940), tarball (13,437), alfredolin (12,736), sebas (12,535), bobtimus_prime (7,600), deebster (7,600), lnxtx (7,170), dunstabzugshaubitze (5,948).

Drydock: yetanotheruser (30,000), svc (20,470), macallan (19,649), sebas (16,540), rajtinka (16,477), cooperredarmydog (15,121), alfredolin (9,705), m_f (9,123).

Bazaar: simpliston (198,399), patrickyaa (152,362), fleece (16,477), bobtimus_prime (12,854), freeman (9,525), svc (6,650), demigodrick (2,813), deebster (1,000).

@yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de topped both of the projects that were open to everyone. The season's most consistent public servant.

The Town Council

21 terms. 94 seats filled. 461 motions. 407 passed. An 88% pass rate, which is either admirable consensus or a rubber stamp, depending on which crew you asked.

Most seats served

Player Crew Terms
@sebas@lemmy.zip Puffer Pals 10
@deebster@infosec.pub Crab Crew 4
@alfredolin@sopuli.xyz Guppy Gang 4
@felixmortane@lemmy.ca Squid Squad 4
@lnxtx@sopuli.xyz Squid Squad 4
@almost1337@lemmy.zip Guppy Gang 4

sebas held a seat for ten of the season's twenty-one councils, and nobody else broke five.

Most motions proposed

Player Motions Passed
@yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de 105 96
@sebas@lemmy.zip 60 59
@treasure@feddit.org 53 49
@alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 44 39
@almost1337@lemmy.zip 24 24
@deebster@infosec.pub 24 23

almost1337 went 24 for 24. Not a single failed motion all season.

Most-used powers

High Tide passed 167 times (and failed 15). Brown Envelope 87. Fishmonger's Sale 48. Lucky Tides 34. Scrap Rain 17. The war powers only came out when pirates were in the bay: Boarding Party 14, Grapeshot 14, War Chest 8, Privateer's Bounty 6, Powder Kegs 2.

14,515 faction points were spent on passed motions. 1,285 council tithes were paid, at a cost of 71,945 gold.

Voyages and the Galleon

1,537 voyages launched. 34,743 fish landed at sea. 131,026 gold hauled home. 33 ships were still out on the water when the season ended, and they are still out there.

Tier Voyages Gold
Coastal 624 30,784
Open Sea 484 44,828
Deep Trench 429 55,414

Voyage-only species dominated the catch log. The Beacon Tuna (4,491), Pearl Diver (4,462) and Lighthouse Eel (3,686) were the three most-caught fish of the entire season, and none of them can be caught from the dock.

1,551 voyage events fired at sea. 1,374 were answered by a captain; 177 were left to resolve themselves while nobody was looking. The port's instinct, when the sea offered a choice, was overwhelmingly to take the cautious option. The two exceptions were Kraken Shallows (83 chose to sneak past versus 46 who fought) and Rogue Wave (68 chose to ride it out versus 35 who turned into it).

Shipwrights

68 players built a full boat in the workshop. 25 went further and assembled all five Masterwork Parts found at sea to earn the โš“ Master Ship Builder badge.

First five to launch a Masterwork Galleon:

  1. @snoopy@piefed.social, 25 July 06:54
  2. @alfredolin@sopuli.xyz, 25 July 14:54
  3. @deebster@infosec.pub, 25 July 17:18
  4. @drworm@piefed.blahaj.zone, 25 July 17:34
  5. @dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org, 25 July 18:25

Only 179 Masterwork Parts were ever pulled out of the sea, across 1,537 voyages.

Most voyages: deebster (79), sebas (77), yetanotheruser (71), alfredolin (64), macallan (51).

The Bounty Board

238 bounties taken, 197 completed, 54,980 gold paid out. An 83% completion rate.

Player Taken Completed Gold
@sebas@lemmy.zip 15 14 3,960
@yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de 12 12 3,690
@drworm@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 12 3,780
@almost1337@lemmy.zip 11 11 3,600
@tikiporch@lemmy.world 13 10 2,750
@bobtimus_prime@feddit.org 13 10 2,540
@tarball@lemmy.zip 10 10 3,180

The board's most-taken contract was Sell Gold (68 picks). The best-paying was Monster Damage: 35 picks, 14,080 gold. Every single Rares, Legendaries and RPS Wins bounty taken was completed.

The Atlas Chain

The season's twelve-step puzzle, running from a morse-code message to a moral choice at a lighthouse.

20 players finished it. 54 more started and stopped at step 1.

@alfredolin@sopuli.xyz won the Lantern's Hour, relighting the Forgotten Tide beacon at 22:17:02 on 24 July, three hours and seventeen minutes after the season began.

First three finishers, all within six minutes of each other:

  1. @dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org, 22:19:16
  2. @almost1337@lemmy.zip, 22:21:00
  3. @alfredolin@sopuli.xyz, 22:25:37

The final choice

At the end, each solver chose whether to keep the lantern or relight the beacon for whoever came next.

Keep it: 12. alfredolin, almost1337, egrets, gerudo, lnxtx, m_f, owenfromcanada, rumba, simpliston, terrance, treasure, yetanotheruser.

Relight it: 8. bevsdad, deebster, dunstabzugshaubitze, freeman, patrickyaa, pokeman, snoopy, w3dd1e.

The first player to finish the chain gave the light away. Make of that what you will.

Chat and the social side

8,613 messages from players, across 12 channels. The harbour feed carried another 17,000 system shouts on top.

Most talkative

Player Crew Messages
@yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de Puffer Pals 845
@comradepupivy@lemmygrad.ml Crab Crew 634
@w3dd1e@lemmy.zip Crab Crew 551
@deebster@infosec.pub Crab Crew 455
@alfredolin@sopuli.xyz Guppy Gang 435
@tikiporch@lemmy.world Crab Crew 394
@cooperredarmydog@lemmy.ml Crab Crew 377
@pika@hikki.team Crab Crew 375

Most-used reaction

๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ› with 844 uses, beating ๐ŸŽ‰ (816) and ๐Ÿ‘ (452). The Corvid got more love than actual celebration did.

Season 4: Rock Paper Scissors

221 games. 636 rounds. 38 players with at least one win. First game 24 July 13:28 UTC, last 27 July 06:42 UTC.

Only the deciding round of each game is recorded, so the 442 throws below come from the 221 decisive rounds. The other 415 rounds were draws, and drawn hands leave no trace.

Which hand actually won

Hand Thrown Won Lost Win rate
โœ‹ Paper 151 (34.2%) 80 71 53.0%
โœŒ๏ธ Scissors 141 (31.9%) 71 70 50.4%
โœŠ Rock 150 (33.9%) 70 80 46.7%

The three hands were thrown almost exactly equally, and it still was not a fair fight. Rock lost more games than it won. Paper picked up the difference. The oldest advice in the game turns out to be correct: people reach for rock, so throw paper.

Player records

Everyone with five or more games.

Player W L Win % Favourite hand
dunstabzugshaubitze 23 15 61% rock (21 of 38)
yetanotheruser 21 9 70% paper (13 of 30)
demigodrick 17 16 52% paper (14 of 33)
deebster 16 8 67% scissors (14 of 24)
its_prolly_fine 11 13 46% scissors (16 of 24)
sebas 10 6 62% paper (14 of 16)
patrickyaa 9 2 82% paper (6 of 11)
tikiporch 9 4 69% scissors (11 of 13)
skankhunt42 9 9 50% rock (17 of 18)
m_f 9 17 35% scissors (10 of 26)
dmmacniel 7 8 47% rock (7 of 15)
zedstrian 6 3 67% rock (4 of 9)
freeman 6 5 55% rock (6 of 11)
pika 5 2 71% paper (4 of 7)
almost1337 5 3 62% paper (6 of 8)
cooperredarmydog 5 5 50% paper (8 of 10)
livligkinkajou 5 9 36% rock (7 of 14)
simpliston 4 1 80% rock (2 of 5)
baschi29 4 8 33% rock (12 of 12)
egrets 3 4 43% rock (3 of 7)
bevsdad 3 4 43% scissors (7 of 7)
comradepupivy 3 5 38% rock (4 of 8)
bobtimus_prime 3 5 38% rock (5 of 8)
rajtinka 3 5 38% paper (4 of 8)
w3dd1e 3 10 23% rock (6 of 13)
mschae 2 3 40% scissors (3 of 5)
alfredolin 2 5 29% scissors (3 of 7)
lnxtx 2 5 29% paper (6 of 7)
treasure 2 6 25% rock (4 of 8)
snoopy 0 9 0% paper (5 of 9)

snoopy went nine games without a single win, the only completely blank record of the season. They favoured paper, the best hand in the game, and it never once landed.

Best record with real volume: yetanotheruser, 21-9 at 70%. Best record overall: patrickyaa, 9-2 at 82%.

The Standoff

yetanotheruser vs its_prolly_fine, 26 July at 02:49 UTC: 255 consecutive draws.

Two hundred and fifty six rounds. Two players throwing the same hand, over and over, neither willing to be the one who changed. It ended when scissors finally cut paper.

The next longest standoff of the entire season was 29 draws.

Draws Games
0 152
1 44
2 15
3 3
4 1
6 2
15 1
17 1
29 1
255 1

The predictable

Two players never varied. Not once.

Player Every single throw Record
baschi29 โœŠ rock, 12 of 12 4-8
bevsdad โœŒ๏ธ scissors, 7 of 7 3-4

And the nearly as readable:

Player Tell Record
skankhunt42 rock 17 of 18 (94%) 9-9
sebas paper 14 of 16 (88%) 10-6
tikiporch scissors 11 of 13 (85%) 9-4
cooperredarmydog paper 8 of 10 (80%) 5-5

sebas is the exception that proves the rule. Being 88% predictable did not matter, because the hand he kept throwing was the one that beats all the rock-throwers. He finished 10-6.

Rivalries

Matchup Games Score
treasure vs yetanotheruser 8 2-6
demigodrick vs dunstabzugshaubitze 6 3-3
dmmacniel vs dunstabzugshaubitze 6 2-4
demigodrick vs m_f 5 3-2
its_prolly_fine vs skankhunt42 5 3-2
deebster vs snoopy 4 4-0

Busiest players

Player Games
dunstabzugshaubitze 38
demigodrick 33
yetanotheruser 30
m_f 26
its_prolly_fine 24
deebster 24
skankhunt42 18
sebas 16

Banner buyers

143 harbour banners were bought. @tikiporch@lemmy.world alone paid for 35 of them, a quarter of everything that scrolled across the top of the screen all season.

Recruiters

@nusm@peachpie.theatl.social brought 6 new players to the port, the most of anyone. dunstabzugshaubitze, snoopy and freeman brought 3 each. 23 players joined through a referral link.

Achievements - The full list

Symbol Name How you earn it
๐Ÿฅ‡ First Presser Make press number 1 of the season
๐Ÿ Latest Presser Hold the most recent press
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Last-Second Save Press with under 10 seconds left
โšก Fastest Reaction Beat the season's fastest reaction
๐Ÿฎ Lantern's Hour Win the Atlas Chain lantern race
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ Lantern Keeper Finish the Atlas Chain and keep the lantern
๐ŸŽฃ Dex Complete Be first to catch all 40 species
โš“ Master Ship Builder Assemble all 5 Masterwork Parts
๐Ÿ›๏ธ Council Member Take a seat on the Town Council

Only ๐Ÿ and โšก move between players. Everything else, once earned, is yours.

Who holds what after Season 4

Solo honours

Badge Holder For
๐Ÿฅ‡ First Presser sebas@lemmy.zip Pressed 6 seconds after the button went live
๐Ÿ Latest Presser micromot@piefed.social Made the press that ended the season
๐ŸŽฃ Dex Complete snoopy@piefed.social First to complete the Dex, 25 July 04:09
๐Ÿฎ Lantern's Hour alfredolin@sopuli.xyz Relit the Forgotten Tide beacon, 24 July 22:17

๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Last-Second Save (7)

Player
fleece@feddit.uk
micromot@piefed.social
simpliston@programming.dev
suborange@lemmy.world
svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
terrance@lemmy.world
w3dd1e@lemmy.zip

๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ Lantern Keeper (12)

Player
alfredolin@sopuli.xyz
almost1337@lemmy.zip
egrets@lemmy.world
gerudo@lemmy.zip
lnxtx@sopuli.xyz
m_f@discuss.online
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
rumba@lemmy.zip
simpliston@programming.dev
terrance@lemmy.world
treasure@feddit.org
yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de

โš“ Master Ship Builder (25)

Player Player
alfredolin@sopuli.xyz patrickyaa@feddit.org
almost1337@lemmy.zip rajtinka@lemmy.world
baschi29@feddit.org scuddthestud@lemmy.world
bevsdad@lemmy.ca sebas@lemmy.zip
bobtimus_prime@feddit.org snoopy@piefed.social
deebster@infosec.pub tarball@lemmy.zip
drworm@piefed.blahaj.zone terrance@lemmy.world
dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org tikiporch@lemmy.world
fleece@feddit.uk w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
freeman@feddit.org yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de
gerudo@lemmy.zip zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works
m_f@discuss.online
macallan@lemmy.world

Most decorated

Player Badges Count
alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ๐Ÿฎ ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ โš“ 3
terrance@lemmy.world ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ โš“ ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ 3
almost1337@lemmy.zip ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ โš“ 2
fleece@feddit.uk โš“ ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ 2
gerudo@lemmy.zip ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ โš“ 2
m_f@discuss.online ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ โš“ 2
micromot@piefed.social ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ ๐Ÿ 2
sebas@lemmy.zip ๐Ÿฅ‡ โš“ 2
simpliston@programming.dev ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ 2
snoopy@piefed.social ๐ŸŽฃ โš“ 2
w3dd1e@lemmy.zip ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ โš“ 2
yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ โš“ 2

alfredolin and terrance finished the season with three each. alfredolin is the only player to hold ๐Ÿฎ, which cannot be shared.

Odds, ends and honourable mentions

  • @snoopy@piefed.social finished the Dex first, built the first Masterwork Galleon, and tied for the most monster kills. A quietly outrageous season.
  • @yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de finished top of catches, top of legendaries, top of chat, top of council motions, top donor on two of three mega-projects, second in RPS and second in total damage, and finished fourth in the faction standings for their trouble.
  • @terrance@lemmy.world ended the season richest at 12,063 gold. Then spent his last minute on Earth throwing 23 presses into the doom clock.
  • 73,154 fish, and the largest was a 154 kg Behemoth caught by terrance at 07:38 on the last morning, during the two-minute window where nothing could save anyone.
  • 12,589 banked presses went to the grave unspent. Half of them were Red's.

See you in Season 5. ๐ŸŽฃ

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Thanks for Everything! (media.piefed.social)
submitted 9 hours ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
13 comments fedilink
 
 

This was the first season I properly participated in and it was a lot of fun!

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Button to donate to the lighthouse is missing. (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 day ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
4 comments fedilink
 
 

@Demigodrick@lemmy.zip

Attached is the screenshot with the missing button.

Mobile
Firefox

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The Button Season 4: General Chat thread (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 week ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
35 comments fedilink
 
 

In case anyone wants to talk about The Button or Season 4 outside of the game. Plus, will take any new ideas here too please :)

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The Button Season 4: Bugs thread (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 week ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
21 comments fedilink
 
 

Please keep a record of any bugs in this post, especially if I'm asleep when they're found!

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The Button Season 4 - Pre-Register now! (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
4 comments fedilink
 
 

Season 4 of The Button starts on 24th July (19:00 UTC). Chat opens a few hours earlier.

This has been a massive change and upgrade to previous versions, including a host of new features and architectural changes.

It took a little longer than planned as I hit a bit of general burnout but I've finished most of the changes and it's all ready to go!

You can sign up now at thebutton.social if you want to get notifications :)

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The Button WILL RETURN for Season 4 (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
4 comments fedilink
 
 

Hi All,

The Button will return for Season 4, likely a week or so after Canvas ends.

I will post a bit more info in the near future, but just wanted to assure people that it isn't dead :)

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Thoughts on Bluesky (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
6 comments fedilink
 
 

Hi all, ive been messing around today and have bluesky users now able to sign in and play.

Is this something we want? I know its not strictly "fediverse" but it could open it up to more players?

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Suggestions (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
4 comments fedilink
 
 

While a dedicated Matrix chat might be a bit much for The Button at this stage, I think maintaining interest in the game via this community at the very least will not only help this game do better and better with each season to the next, but also serve as a tool for user retention across The Fediverse as a whole (requiring a Fediverse account is valuable to that end).

While tools like Lemmy-Federate, Fediverse Observer, and Fediseer are useful as support infrastructure for the Fediverse, I think The Button has the potential to serve that role in a more social way, more creative than something like r/place was for Reddit, in a manner that wouldn't be possible on a platform with the scale of Reddit.

In a way, The Button being a flagship project of .zip illustrates how collaboration between instances enhances the Threadiverse project as a whole: Fediseer is associated with dbzer0, Lemmy-Federate with .world, Lemmy itself with .ml, and Piefed itself with piefed.social.

In terms of maximizing the potential for The Button in serving this role, I have a few suggestions (hopefully some useful), and encourage others to iterate upon my ideas or make suggestions of their own as to how participation may be encouraged and fostered beyond joining, tapping the button, and leaving for the rest of the season.

  • Some form of leadership is necessary to onboard new users as to the gameplay and new features associated with each season as it unfolds. As @demigodrick@lemmy.zip is naturally only available at certain times, active users have successfully been performing this task to various degrees, hopefully to the benefit of new user retention. With the Senator and Chancellor system in Season 3, not only were active users encouraged to seek leadership positions, but everyone benefitted by having guidance in roleplaying via gameplay mechanics reserved for a subset of elected users. Should this system return in future iterations, I think that more options for gameplay variation should be entrusted on the elected roles, including different options specifically for Senators, or whatever the equivalent for that role would be; this could include an option to vote to recall the Chancellor (or role-equivalent) if needed. In Season 3, use of the Chancellor role ranged from survival-maximization (i.e. only handing out extra button presses) to roleplay-oriented (announcement messages), so perhaps in the future a mix of both types of actions could be encouraged to sustain roleplay while allowing the Chancellor (and potentially Senators) to intelligently wield their powers to help the button last longer. In terms of specific powers, adding 30 minutes to the button and locking it in the absence of other gameplay mechanics might leave some players with nothing to do, though it had the benefit of decreasing the risk of the button dying; perhaps the downsides could be diminished with the addition of a mechanic other than just pressing the button?

  • Several interesting new features were added to the website that aid in gamifying it; here's a few potential format adjustments: making usernames tappable to view their profile statistics page, retaining season-specific group names on the Leaderboards screen (the Season 3 team names now just list the colors, rather than their Star Wars equivalents), fixing the theming button to the left of the volume button at the top-right (the dropdown theme window seems to get stuck behind the main window on iOS Safari) [seemingly fixed since I made the post], fixing the background on the "How to play" screen (transparent on iOS Safari below "No passwords, no emails."), and fixing the chat consistently listing 60 messages.

  • In terms of gameplay adjustments, many things could theoretically be added to increase complexity, though I think a key part of the experience was the social component; features that promote interaction should be encouraged. Still, puzzle interaction in Season 3 demonstrated that some players look for other gameplay components to interact for the challenge of it (with the potential for additional team rewards being a bonus), so I certainly think additional puzzles would aid in adding complexity in a manner that players can cooperate on solving together (without directly passing around answers). As others have noted, solution entry should be adjusted to not accidentally reveal near-correct answers to others. In terms of gameplay mechanics that anyone could do without puzzle-solving, I think some elements from unique incremental games could be a source of inspiration without this game in itself becoming one (something that would take away from its social focus). Such potential inspirations include the leaderboard of dripstat, the crank and battery charging features of Crank, and the variety in the mechanics of Universal Paperclips. Most importantly, anything added should encourage interaction.

  • As the button's survival is the primary gameplay mechanic, additional indicators of its at-risk status and limited means of giving other players extra chances to use their presses (i.e. dedicated players getting time-freezes, quizzes to add time to the button, etc.) could aid in this. Wasteful presses should ideally also be discouraged, as they negate the point of handing out such presses in the first place. Ultimately, there should still always be the risk of the button running out of time as an incentive to participate. The Button also benefits from being a time-limited event to maintain a high level of participant interest throughout.

Most importantly of all, the game should be an enjoyable experience for everyone involved; whichever changes are made, I look forward to Season 4! ๐Ÿ‘

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A couple of button updates... (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
14 comments fedilink
 
 

I keep adding stuff to The Button, here's one thing you might be interested in:

You can check yours out by going to thebutton.lemmy.zip/u/yourusername@yourinstance

Yes, I am also changing the domain to be a bit friendlier, but the old subdomain will redirect when I do swap it over.

You can also unsubscribe from getting DMs from the bot with updates - you can do this by going into the settings tab and toggling off the DM option, or by going to thebutton.lemmy.zip/unsubscribe and entering your username and instance, then clicking the link you get sent.

:)

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The Button: Season 3 Wrap-Up: The Stranded Jedi (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago* by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
39 comments fedilink
 
 

Theme: Star Wars ยท Duration: 25h 39m ยท Started: 2026-05-04 20:00 UTC ยท Ended: 2026-05-05 21:39 UTC

๐Ÿ† Winner: Purple

A genuine four-way scrap. Every faction crossed 21% of total hold time, and the gap between 1st and 4th was less than 8 percentage points.

Rank Faction Hold % Hold time
๐Ÿฅ‡ 1 Purple 29.41% 7h 32m
๐Ÿฅˆ 2 Green 25.75% 6h 36m
๐Ÿฅ‰ 3 Blue 23.12% 5h 55m
4 Red 21.70% 5h 34m

๐Ÿ”˜ The Button

  • 473 presses from 172 unique players
  • 213 active recruits (faction members) across the season
  • 30 referrals signed up via referral links
  • Median timer at press: 14m 18s (858s)
  • Game duration: 25h 39m 38s

Press distribution

Faction Presses Members Unused presses
Purple 161 59 213
Green 148 56 85
Red 85 45 126
Blue 79 53 157

Purple's win was carried by sheer participation. The most members and the most presses.

๐ŸŽฌ First & last press

  • First click: stegodon (stegodon.social, ๐ŸŸช purple) - 14m 53s left on the clock at 2026-05-04 20:00:07. Less than a second after the gates opened.
  • Last click: livligkinkajou (slrpnk.net, ๐ŸŸฉ green) - 14m 49s left at 2026-05-05 21:24:45, with 15 minutes to spare before the timer ran out for good.

The opening flurry (first 8 presses)

# Player Faction Timer left
1 stegodon ๐ŸŸช 14:53
2 volore ๐ŸŸฅ 14:39
3 wagnast ๐ŸŸฉ 14:36
4 elettrona ๐ŸŸช 14:47
5 winged_hussar ๐ŸŸฅ 12:57
6 roydbt ๐ŸŸฉ 14:48
7 zloubida ๐ŸŸช 10:30
8 nusm ๐ŸŸฉ 14:54

๐Ÿ”ฅ Closest calls

Five players took the timer all the way to a single-digit second count:

Player Faction Hold When
livligkinkajou ๐ŸŸฉ 0:01 2026-05-04 23:57
comradepupivy ๐ŸŸฅ 0:01 2026-05-05 00:51
tigeruppercut ๐ŸŸฉ 0:02 2026-05-05 03:59
demigodrick ๐ŸŸช 0:05 2026-05-05 03:37
squirrel ๐ŸŸช 0:08 2026-05-05 20:15

livligkinkajou got the badge for closest-to-zero overall.

๐Ÿฅ‡ Most active pressers

Player Faction Presses Total time held Longest single hold
zedstrian ๐ŸŸฉ 15 3h 15m 15:00
squirrel ๐ŸŸช 15 2h 15m 14:59
dunstabzugshaubitze ๐ŸŸฉ 12 2h 45m 14:57
netweirdo ๐ŸŸช 10 2h 23m 14:58
livligkinkajou ๐ŸŸฉ 10 2h 03m 15:00
stegodon ๐ŸŸช 10 1h 55m 15:00
sebas ๐ŸŸฉ 10 1h 53m 14:58
  • The longest holds were by Chancellors!

๐Ÿ›๏ธ The Galactic Senate

Six elections were held over the course of the game. Five chancellors used their term; the final election ran out the clock with no nominations:

Term Chancellor Faction
1 stegodon ๐ŸŸช Purple
2 zedstrian ๐ŸŸฉ Green
3 havatra ๐ŸŸฅ Red
4 corvuscornix ๐ŸŸฆ Blue
5 rajtinka ๐ŸŸช Purple
6 (unfilled) โ€”

Notable chancellor moves:

  • stegodon opened with a flurry - three royal decrees, two custom badges (โญ and ๐Ÿฆพ), two bonus presses, and a timer bonus
  • zedstrian and havatra both leaned hard on Galactic Largesse, twice each
  • corvuscornix burned three royal decrees in 20 minutes, a Blue blitz mid-game
  • rajtinka wrapped up with two faction bonus presses for Purple, very likely the deciding shove

Senate Voter Turnout

Election Faction-vote ballots Chancellor-vote ballots
1 (start of game) 30 20
2 (overnight) 9 8 โ† lowest turnout, the dead-of-night election
3 (early morning) 20 18
4 (lunchtime) 20 14
5 (final) 19 22 โ† highest turnout, peak engagement

Engagement climbed steadily into the final hours.

๐Ÿงฉ The Stranded Jedi puzzle

Master Kellin Vos was waiting in the holocron channel for anyone who could hear him.

  • 2 players completed all 9 steps:
    • ๐ŸŸฆ m_f finished 2026-05-05 12:34 (light/dark final reached first)
    • ๐Ÿฅˆ w3dd1e finished 2026-05-05 15:33
  • 2 more reached step 8 havatra and marauderiic (decoded the Vigenรจre but didn't speak the mantra)
  • 3 reached step 7 zedstrian, shimozu, corvuscornix
  • 5 broke past step 1 beyond that
  • 246 messages in the hidden #holocron channel

๐Ÿ’ฌ Chat

4,272 messages across all channels:

Channel Messages
#main 2,743
#purple 375
#holocron ๐Ÿ”’ 246
#senate 223
#green 211
#red 204
#corvid-chat (pop-up) 144
#blue 126

Top 10 chatters

# Player Faction Messages
1 w3dd1e ๐Ÿ”ด Red 473
2 corvuscornix ๐Ÿ”ต Blue 424
3 squirrel ๐ŸŸฃ Purple 228
4 rajtinka ๐ŸŸฃ Purple 218
5 havatra ๐Ÿ”ด Red 192
6 zedstrian ๐ŸŸข Green 153
7 stegodon ๐ŸŸฃ Purple 126
8 demigodrick ๐ŸŸข Green 119
9 dmmacniel ๐ŸŸข Green 112
10 comradepupivy ๐Ÿ”ด Red 79

Top 5 reaction emojis

Emoji Count
โค๏ธ 200
๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ› 182
๐Ÿ˜‚ 133
๐Ÿ‘ 131
๐Ÿ’ฏ 117

The crow emoji, added to the picker only hours before the game ended, landed in second place behind the heart. A late-game phenomenon.

๐ŸŽ–๏ธ Final badges

  • ๐Ÿฅ‡ stegodon - first to press the button
  • ๐Ÿฅˆ w3dd1e - runner-up Jedi
  • ๐ŸŸฆ m_f - light-side Jedi master
  • ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Sentinels - demigodrick, comradepupivy, squirrel, zedstrian, tigeruppercut, havatra
  • ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ๐Ÿ livligkinkajou - sentinel + closest-to-zero
  • โšก siv9939 - chancellor's electric custom badge

๐Ÿ” Top referrers

Recruitment chain MVPs:

Player Faction Sign-ups brought in
zedstrian ๐ŸŸฉ 8
dunstabzugshaubitze ๐ŸŸฉ 7
squirrel ๐ŸŸช 5
livligkinkajou ๐ŸŸฉ 3
snoopy ๐ŸŸฉ 2

Green ran the strongest referral game (20 sign-ups), but Purple's existing roster was already big enough to translate into wins on the board.

๐Ÿ“Š By the numbers

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  • Most presses by one player: 15 (zedstrian and squirrel, tied)
  • Average press timer remaining: 14:18
  • Unused presses across all factions: 581 (more than were actually used!)

โฐ Hourly Heatmap

Press volume climbed steadily into the final evening (UTC):

Shading legend: 0 ยท โ–‘ 1โ€“2 ยท โ–’ 3โ€“5 ยท โ–“ 6โ€“9 ยท โ–ˆ 10+

Hour (UTC) ๐ŸŸฆ Blue ๐ŸŸฉ Green ๐ŸŸช Purple ๐ŸŸฅ Red Total Bar
May 04 20:00 โ–’ 4 โ–ˆ 10 โ–“ 9 โ–“ 6 29 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 04 21:00 โ–‘ 1 โ–’ 4 โ–’ 4 โ–’ 3 12 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 04 22:00 โ–’ 5 โ–’ 5 โ–’ 3 โ–’ 5 18 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 04 23:00 โ–’ 3 โ–’ 5 โ–‘ 2 โ–‘ 2 12 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 00:00 โ–‘ 2 โ–‘ 1 โ–‘ 2 โ–‘ 2 7 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 01:00 โ–“ 6 โ–’ 3 โ–‘ 2 โ–’ 3 14 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 02:00 โ–‘ 2 โ–’ 3 โ–‘ 2 โ–’ 4 11 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 03:00 0 โ–’ 4 โ–‘ 2 โ–’ 3 9 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 04:00 โ–’ 3 โ–‘ 1 โ–‘ 2 โ–’ 3 9 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 05:00 0 โ–‘ 1 โ–‘ 1 โ–‘ 1 3 โ–ˆ
May 05 06:00 โ–’ 3 โ–“ 8 โ–’ 3 โ–’ 5 19 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 07:00 โ–‘ 2 โ–‘ 2 โ–“ 6 โ–’ 3 13 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 08:00 0 0 โ–“ 7 โ–‘ 2 9 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 09:00 โ–’ 5 โ–’ 3 โ–‘ 2 โ–‘ 2 12 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 10:00 โ–‘ 1 โ–’ 4 โ–“ 6 โ–‘ 2 13 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 11:00 โ–’ 3 โ–’ 3 โ–“ 6 โ–’ 3 15 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 12:00 โ–“ 8 โ–ˆ 14 โ–ˆ 20 โ–‘ 2 44 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ† peak
May 05 13:00 โ–“ 8 โ–ˆ 15 โ–ˆ 15 โ–’ 4 42 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 14:00 โ–’ 3 โ–“ 6 โ–’ 5 โ–’ 3 17 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 15:00 โ–’ 3 โ–’ 3 โ–’ 3 โ–“ 6 15 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 16:00 โ–‘ 1 โ–“ 7 โ–“ 8 โ–’ 4 20 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 17:00 โ–‘ 1 โ–‘ 1 โ–’ 5 โ–’ 3 10 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 18:00 โ–‘ 2 โ–“ 8 โ–“ 9 โ–ˆ 10 29 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 19:00 โ–’ 5 โ–ˆ 20 โ–ˆ 21 โ–’ 3 49 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ† peak
May 05 20:00 โ–“ 7 โ–“ 9 โ–ˆ 10 โ–‘ 1 27 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
May 05 21:00 โ–‘ 1 โ–“ 8 โ–“ 6 0 15 โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ
Total 79 148 161 85 473
Chat volume followed a similar curve, peaking at 323 messages in the 20:00 hour as the season raced toward the finish.

๐ŸŒ The Fediverse Showed Up

Players came from 49 different Fediverse instances. Top contributors:

Instance Players
lemmy.zip 65
lemmy.world 32
feddit.org 22
sh.itjust.works 13
piefed.social 7
lemmy.ml 7
discuss.tchncs.de 5
sopuli.xyz 4
startrek.website 3
piefed.zip 3

โ€ฆplus 39 more instances with 1โ€“2 players each. A genuinely cross-platform crowd.

๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ› Honourable Mentions

  • Corvid Chat - the first admin pop-up channel ever spawned. 144 messages in roughly an hour. The crow emoji that arrived in the same patch promptly took silver in the reactions chart.
  • The 8-vote election - election 2 fired at 02:30 UTC and got 8 chancellor votes. The dead-of-night turnout floor.
  • The Light Side Choice - m_f could have hoarded ten bonus presses for themselves. They didn't. Whoever you are: that's a Jedi move. ๐ŸŸฆ

Bugs!

There were a couple of bugs in this Season, for which I apologise profusely for. One ended up wiping the database mid game. I managed to recover most things, but fastest press is not correct sadly, just an approximation based on chat timestamps :(

Until next season. ๐ŸŸช

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Congrats Bounty Hunters! (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
7 comments fedilink
 
 

Good game everyone! That was so much fun!

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If you aren't playing this season, you're missing out. (thebutton.lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
10 comments fedilink
 
 

We have started a new religion inside the game. FOLLOW THE CROW. CA-CAW!

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The Button Season 3 is now LIVE! (thebutton.lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
12 comments fedilink
 
 

Season 3 of The Button has begun!

Join in now, team up, and you might even get to become Galactic Chancellor for a bit :)

Hope to see you there!

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Just a reminder - Season 3 starts in less than 24 hours! (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 months ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
4 comments fedilink
 
 

Don't miss out :D

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I just found out about The Button (social.wake.st)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
1 comment fedilink
 
 

I just found out about The Button

It's cool to see more experimental fediverse gamification taking place.
"Season 3" of @thebutton starts May 4th. I hope I remember to press it.

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Will There Be a Season 3? (peachpie.theatl.social)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
6 comments fedilink
 
 

If so, when?

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Announcing: The Button Season 3 - Starts May 4th (be with you...) (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
4 comments fedilink
 
 

The Button returns for a third season, no bonus points for guessing the theme!

The game will start Monday 4th May at 20:00 UTC (that's 16:00 EST, 13:00 PDT, 22:00 CEST)

You only get one press, but without giving away too much, you decide who the ultimate power is. Will they give you your press back? Let's hope you've put your faith in the right person!

Preregistration will open 24 hours before the game does, on Sunday 3rd at 20:00 UTC. You'll be able to get your unique referral link and whoever can refer more people, may get rewarded...

Chat opens 3 hours before the game begins at 17:00 UTC.

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User-Initiated game start? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
1 comment fedilink
 
 

I mean I think there should be a button (yes of course it'd be a button) that, if within 1 hour, gets pressed by at least 50 different users, it automatically begins a new season, without an admin needing to manually start it.

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Season 2 - Stats & Info (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
10 comments fedilink
 
 

The Button - Season 2 Stats

Winner: Green Faction

Green held the button the longest, narrowly beating Purple by just 2 minutes and 50 seconds.

Game Overview

Stat Value
Game Duration 16h 23m 35s
Total Players 244
Players Who Pressed 205
Total Button Presses 242
Chat Messages 1,549
Unique Chatters 99
Referred Players 14

Faction Standings

Rank Faction Time Held Share Players Presses
1st Green 4h 31m 34s 27.6% 67 64
2nd Purple 4h 28m 44s 27.3% 79 76
3rd Blue 4h 14m 10s 25.8% 54 53
4th Red 3h 9m 6s 19.2% 44 49

Achievement Badge Holders

Badge Player Achievement
๐Ÿฅ‡ First Presser @weddingcrasher@lemmy.zip First to press the button
๐Ÿ Latest Presser @skipwappallypap@lemmy.world Last player to press
โšก Fastest Reaction @nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 129ms reaction time
๐Ÿ›ก Last-Second Save @tamlyn@lemmy.zip Pressed at 1.16s remaining
๐Ÿ” Mystery Solver @solace@lemmy.blahaj.zone Found the easter egg

Top 5 Closest Saves

Player Faction Timer Remaining
@tamlyn@lemmy.zip Purple 1.16s
@tamlyn@lemmy.zip Purple 2.25s
@hellhound1@lemmy.world Purple 4.22s
@birne@feddit.org Blue 5.25s
@lvxferre@mander.xyz Red 6.84s

Top 5 Fastest Reactions

Player Faction Reaction Time
@nusm@peachpie.theatl.social Green 129ms
@merdaverse@lemmy.zip Red 372ms
@sebas@lemmy.zip Purple 688ms
@allero@lemmy.today Blue 856ms
@susaga@sh.itjust.works Green 987ms

Most Active Chatters

Player Faction Messages
@calmblue75@lemmy.ml Blue 201
@allero@lemmy.today Blue 96
@mschae@discuss.mschae23.de Green 77
@solace@lemmy.blahaj.zone Purple 59
@demigodrick@lemmy.zip Green 59

Top Referrer

@deathbybigsad@sh.itjust.works (Purple) referred 7 players

Press Activity by Hour (UTC)

Time Block Presses
Apr 5, 12:00 25
Apr 5, 13:00 20
Apr 5, 14:00 19
Apr 5, 15:00 16
Apr 5, 16:00 24
Apr 5, 17:00 15
Apr 5, 18:00 10
Apr 5, 19:00 11
Apr 5, 20:00 6
Apr 5, 21:00 16
Apr 5, 22:00 17
Apr 5, 23:00 14
Apr 6, 00:00 9
Apr 6, 01:00 11
Apr 6, 02:00 13
Apr 6, 03:00 11
Apr 6, 04:00 5

The opening hour saw 25 presses as players rushed to claim the button. Activity stayed strong through the afternoon (15โ€“25 presses/hour) before tapering off overnight. The timer finally ran out at 04:23 UTC on April 6 after a quiet stretch with just 5 presses in the final hour.

Fun Facts

  • The average timer value at press was 10m 59s - most players pressed well before the 15-minute deadline
  • 13 presses were made with less than 60 seconds on the clock
  • 39 players registered but never pressed the button
  • The margin between 1st and 2nd place was just 2 minutes 50 seconds out of 16+ hours
  • Purple had the most players (79) and most presses (76) but still came 2nd
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Suggestion Box (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
4 comments fedilink
 
 

I'll start: A button to ping the admin chat for when the chat is accidentally paused

Secondary suggestion: move the pause chat button somewhere less pressable

My girlfriend's suggestion: add an easter egg that can pause chat once every 24 hours

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I want to notify that all player got another button click thanks to solace solving the mystery (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
4 comments fedilink
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Bugs Thread for season 2 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
12 comments fedilink
 
 

This is a thread for reporting bugs encountered in season 2 of the Button.

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Announcing The Button: Season 2 - Easter Boogaloo (Sunday 5th April 12:00 UTC) (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
22 comments fedilink
 
 

Yes, The Button is returning for a second season!

This time around, your press resets after 24 hours and you get to press again (if the game makes it that far!)

The chat will open from 10:00 UTC on Sunday, 2 hours before the game begins.

A new feature this time around, in addition to the reset press, is achievements in chat for things like first presser and fastest presser. There may even be an Easter egg to find...

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Game Variations Brainstorm (mander.xyz)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip
15 comments fedilink
 
 

Hey all,

I just wanted to open a brainstorming post for possible future variations on the game.
Note that this is just for fun and that i hold no weight toward game decisions.

Here's a couple ideas floating around in my own head, what's in yours?

  • Speed click: First team to press 100* times wins
    *Obviously this should be calibrated based on expected participation
  • Short timer, for length: No teams, only community effort to make it last as long as possible but the timer is shorter
    Perhaps instead of short timer, the press value degrades over time. Basically a sub-a-thon, tbh
  • Lowest score after 24hrs* wins, but still have to keep the game alive until then or else nobody wins
    *Needs calibrated for feasibility

Share your thoughts!

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