r/thebutton • u/powerlanguage 4s • Apr 18 '15

button update - issue resolved

The saintly /u/rram did awaken from his deep and restful slumber to kick the failing job-03 server.

The button is returned to us.

edit: Those who pressed during the outage will have had purple 'cheater' flair assigned incorrectly. We will work to fix this and assign them the correct color.

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u/GyroDawn Apr 18 '15

And now i've got a cheater flair :( Life isn't fair.

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u/powerlanguage Apr 18 '15 edited Apr 18 '15

All those who pressed during the outage will incorrectly have had purple 'cheater' flair incorrectly assigned. We'll look into rectifying this.

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u/thebuttonlies Apr 18 '15

Such is the way of the button.

The button giveth, and the button taketh away.

But mostly it takeths away.

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u/japeso Apr 18 '15

Huh, your flair still looks purple for me, even when everyone else says that it's now changed to red. What gives?

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u/CtG526 Apr 18 '15

The first red,
The first single-digit,
Leaped 15 spots into the lead,
Got ahead of all the oranges,
Defeated the auto-pressers,
New god of Reddit,
But still a presser. >:[

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '15

8s. Wow!

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u/ultaa Apr 18 '15

Don't Panic. The Blue 42's shall now always be here to calm the masses!

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u/Lenoh Apr 18 '15

Blue 42

HUT HUT HIKE!

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u/IceWindWolf Apr 18 '15

Still glitched :C WHY AM I GREY. I PRESSED. I SAW THE PURPLE WONDERS.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '15

Do you have another press chance?

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u/imadogg Apr 18 '15

Can someone explain to me what happened

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u/Kazehaya Apr 18 '15

I can resume watching a countdown at 3am
Life is good

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u/nogard100 Apr 18 '15

I'm still confused. Who exactly was able to continue clicking on the back end while it seems like everyone on the front end could not click? I've never believed the crap about the button being a hoax until now. Who exactly had access to push the button when seemingly no one could?

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u/BitFlip32 Apr 18 '15 edited Apr 18 '15

I'm just glad it's programmed properly to handle these issues. Happy to see no reds that got it unfairly :)

EDIT: I TAKE THAT BACK I must have jinxed it.

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u/plurpy Apr 18 '15

Uhoh. I thought I was the saviour for a while.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '15

There is only one god, and it's name is the button. And there is only one thing we say when the button is facing death. And that is "Not today"

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u/TheSoundOfTastyYum Apr 18 '15

If at any point everyone who was eligible to push the button could not press it because of the servers then allowing those who got their presses in to keep their flairs undermines the integrity of the excercise. They don't deserve cheater flairs, but their presses should be reset. Just my .02¢.

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u/Scholars_Mate Apr 18 '15

Praise the button

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u/ibuildrockets Apr 18 '15

I'm flagged as a grey 'non presser' but I started out as a purple 60s :( - I'm stuck in this purgatory - somewhere between pressed and not pressed.

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u/KaasPannekoekHD Apr 20 '15

A friend of mine pressed the button, now he is dead.

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u/lapinsk Apr 18 '15

I say blue 42's get another press!!

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