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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you were placed in a room with a button and told not to press it, could you fight the temptation? A current Reddit thread is testing its users resolve to do just this by placing a clickable button ...

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 ...