[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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being “the front page of the Internet” comes with power, and Redditors have often, if not a bit spontaneously, channeled that power for fundraising. Among their good deeds: giving a bullied senior ...

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, ...

Reddit is launching a new throwback chat tool to connect complete strangers in small groups. In a move that feels like a modern take on AOL chat rooms from the 1990s, Reddit launched the Start ...

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 ...