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. So large ...

On April 1st, Reddit launched a new page: The Button. It was paired with a countdown timer. 60 seconds. If anyone anywhere on Earth pressed it, the timer would reset. For two months, the timer never ...

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. "But what happens when it reaches zero?!" you ask.

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 ...

Rather than do something big and elaborate for April Fools' Day, Reddit did something altogether more insidious for its annual prank: The Button, a social experiment that calls for every one of the ...

One of the things that made LOST so enthralling was that you, the viewer, could ask yourself what you might do if you found yourself in the show’s fantastic-yet-simple scenarios. Would you hoard ...

Perhaps it is easier to explain The Button by explaining what it is not. The Button is not a thing that makes sense, nor is it a thing with any particular objective or rule set. It is not a game, and ...

I’ve never been so torn about whether or not to push a button. Like many websites, Reddit loves a good April Fools’ Day prank, but this year it’s taken a turn for the surreal. On Wednesday morning, ...

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 ...

[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 ...