Reddit is a strange and often beautiful place. Part content-sharing board, part meme factory, part social community, the site has an outsize effect on mainstream Internet news and culture. Subscribe ...

[Chris] has recently become a self-declared Reddit addict and wanted to build something that would streamline the process of voting on posts. Inspired by the Awesome Button hack featured on Make a ...

It was created on April 1 for April Fools' Day. There is a timer that counts down from 60 seconds, and pressing the button resets the timer. The button can only be pressed only one time by a Reddit ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link In the past two weeks, over half a million people have pushed a button on Reddit that does one thing: Reset a timer. The timer counts down from 60 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Rather than do something big and elaborate for April Fools' Day, Reddit did something altogether more insidious for its annual prank: The Button, ...

On April Fools’ Day this year, many tech companies came out with their own pranks and easter eggs, from Google Pac-Maps to Imgur’s GIF collaboration experiment. Reddit didn’t show off anything ...

What started as an April Fools’ Day prank, before gaining unexpected momentum in recent weeks, went out with a whimper After two months, and more than a million clicks, the weirdest social experiment ...

On April Fools' Day this year, a mysterious button popped up on Reddit, inviting members of the social media sharing site to press it. The Button is little more than a grey box with a timer next to it ...

Social news website Reddit appears to be conducting a social experiment. Reddit administrators unleashed The Button on the hugely-successful online community on April Fool's Day. Article continues ...

On April 1, a mysterious button appeared that sent users of the popular online community into a spin. A simple timer appeared and counted down from 60 seconds with a button. Users could press it to ...

What began as a some what harmless social experiment three months ago to test our restraint has now been humbled to a Reddit archive with a simple message thanking the one million plus participants ...