Hello everyone - I hope you enjoyed the first season of The Button! I certainly did 😀

Below are some stats based on Season 1, which I hope you find interesting!

The Button — Season 1 Final Stats

Overview

Stat Value
Duration 12.6 hours
Total Players 378
Total Presses 292
Chat Messages 2,906
Fediverse Instances 58
Median Timer at Press 13:32

Faction Standings

Faction Control % Members Presses
Purple 29.8% 124 99
Green 29.6% 107 79
Blue 26.0% 94 76
Red 14.6% 53 38

Purple wins by just 0.2% over Green.

Records

Record Player Faction Value
First Press @weddingcrasher@lemmy.zip Purple 14:59 remaining
Last Press @mschae@discuss.mschae23.de Green 13:29 remaining
Fastest Reaction @simpliston@programming.dev Green 63ms after reset
Closest to Zero @melvisntnormal@feddit.uk Purple 1.4s remaining

Milestones

Press # Player Faction
1st @weddingcrasher@lemmy.zip Purple
10th @ptz@dubvee.org Blue
25th @protoknuckles@lemmy.world Red
50th @potter297@lemmy.zip Purple
100th @stellarextract@lemmy.zip Purple
150th @caesium@lemmy.world Blue
200th @hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works Blue
250th @chunes@lemmy.world Red
292nd (final) @mschae@discuss.mschae23.de Green

Top Instances

Instance Players
lemmy.zip 118
lemmy.world 64
sh.itjust.works 34
piefed.zip 14
piefed.social 11
feddit.org 11
lemmy.dbzer0.com 8
lemmy.ca 8
sopuli.xyz 7
lemmy.blahaj.zone 7

Hourly Activity

Hour (UTC) Presses
2026-03-31 20:00 25
2026-03-31 21:00 19
2026-03-31 22:00 21
2026-03-31 23:00 36
2026-04-01 00:00 33
2026-04-01 01:00 29
2026-04-01 02:00 24
2026-04-01 03:00 13
2026-04-01 04:00 22
2026-04-01 05:00 17
2026-04-01 06:00 20
2026-04-01 07:00 13
2026-04-01 08:00 11
2026-04-01 09:00 9

I am working on updating the platform to support multiple seasons with modifiers :) more info soon!