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 ...

For the last two weeks, readers of the social news site Reddit have been obsessed with "The Button." It's an April Fools' Day prank and social experiment, and it's ...

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, ...

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 ...