The button ended this week.



After 1,008,316 presses, the experiment is over. It started as a simple April Fool’s prank, but it turned into something far bigger than any of us could have imagined. We interviewed two of the members of team reddit who were behind this massive phenomenon, and you’ll hear them in an upcoming episode of the Upvoted podcast.



There was a lot more going on this week (as you’ll see below), but one of my favorites was a photo of this “canopy formation” from the r/skydiving community. If you’re counting, that’s 81 people making art while falling down to earth.

We even learned about a new community called r/AmItheAsshole, for all those times when you needed to be sure that you weren’t being an asshole, or to get the perspective of the other person. Great pick, r/subredditoftheday (also a great place to discover new reddit communities).

Basically, humans can be pretty awesome. (Unless you’re one of those non-pressers. 59s for life!)



In fact, one redditor, I_Lase_You, created a modified hair straightener so that another redditor, who’s a quadriplegic, could straighten her hair again. Yet another kind gesture from one stranger to another, made possible by the internet.

These are the things that make us proud to work at reddit. And as we approach our 10-year anniversary, one of the ways we’d like to look back is by hearing from you, dear redditor, about what your favorite thing is about reddit.

