Haha great implementation! I also have a similar one on my blog called: Useless Button[1]. This one is implemented with CF Workers as the backend.
This button has been clicked 2475 times for no reason.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah hahah, I suspect a lot of the clicks have already been automated, when I went to sleep it was at around ~4k clicks and in the morning it had gone up to 140k clicks Curious to see how much load/clicks the hacky Go code will handle
I was thinking about your logging/storage. If for every click you log action/IP/date/time/etc, 100-200 bytes of text and I gave you about 1000 clicks with my auto-clicker in a couple of minutes, and if 10-20 people like me do this and leave it running while we watch LotR-extended, could we hurt your storage? At 100ms per click, 1sec = 10 clicks, 600 per min, 36000 per hour, x4 h for LotR-Ext = 144k x 200 bytes x 20 p…
Haha nice point of reference (LotR) - I ended up not storing user-agent/ip etc, only 8 bytes for the timestamp. I was initially going to dump the clicks on sqlite but it felt a bit OTT, so I just keep appending the 8 bytes to the end of a file.
I regret not keeping more details, would make for an interesting an analysis and as you said unlikely to hurt storage unless more people were clicking.
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#13I'll be honest... I used my OP Auto Clicker and gave it 'a few clicks'...
Thank you for clicking!
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#14Haha great implementation! I also have a similar one on my blog called: Useless Button[1]. This one is implemented with CF Workers as the backend. This button has been clicked 2475 times for no reason. [1] https://rishikeshs.com/button/
This is really cool, now I'm tempted to add some kind of interactive element like this to my website. reminds me of the 2000s internet online user/views counters
Re: Show HN: Don't click this button – testing the internet's patience
#15Haha great implementation! I also have a similar one on my blog called: Useless Button[1]. This one is implemented with CF Workers as the backend. This button has been clicked 2475 times for no reason. [1] https://rishikeshs.com/button/
This is really cool, now I'm tempted to add some kind of interactive element like this to my website. reminds me of the 2000s internet online user/views counters
Check out this mosaic as well: https://rishikeshs.com/mosaic/
I'm mesmerised by how many people take time to click all these! :D
It has been updated by people from: AE, IT, FR, US, IN, BE, GB, AU, PL, MX, DK, BR, JP, DE, CH, IL, SK, ES, SE, CA, NL, AR, NZ, PF, IS, CO, CL, GE, PT, RO, FI, PH, CZ