cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/63795808

The Button: Season 3 Wrap-Up: The Stranded Jedi

Theme: Star Wars · Duration: 25h 39m · Started: 2026-05-04 20:00 UTC · Ended: 2026-05-05 21:39 UTC

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🏆 Winner: Purple

A genuine four-way scrap. Every faction crossed 21% of total hold time, and the gap between 1st and 4th was less than 8 percentage points.

Rank	Faction	Hold %	Hold time
🥇 1	Purple	29.41%	7h 32m
🥈 2	Green	25.75%	6h 36m
🥉 3	Blue	23.12%	5h 55m
4	Red	21.70%	5h 34m

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🔘 The Button

• 473 presses from 172 unique players
• 213 active recruits (faction members) across the season
• 30 referrals signed up via referral links
• Median timer at press: 14m 18s (858s)
• Game duration: 25h 39m 38s

Press distribution

Faction	Presses	Members	Unused presses
Purple	161	59	213
Green	148	56	85
Red	85	45	126
Blue	79	53	157

Purple’s win was carried by sheer participation. The most members and the most presses.

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🎬 First & last press

• First click: stegodon (stegodon.social, 🟪 purple) - 14m 53s left on the clock at 2026-05-04 20:00:07. Less than a second after the gates opened.
• Last click: livligkinkajou (slrpnk.net, 🟩 green) - 14m 49s left at 2026-05-05 21:24:45, with 15 minutes to spare before the timer ran out for good.

The opening flurry (first 8 presses)

#	Player	Faction	Timer left
1	stegodon	🟪	14:53
2	volore	🟥	14:39
3	wagnast	🟩	14:36
4	elettrona	🟪	14:47
5	winged_hussar	🟥	12:57
6	roydbt	🟩	14:48
7	zloubida	🟪	10:30
8	nusm	🟩	14:54

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🔥 Closest calls

Five players took the timer all the way to a single-digit second count:

Player	Faction	Hold	When
livligkinkajou	🟩	0:01	2026-05-04 23:57
comradepupivy	🟥	0:01	2026-05-05 00:51
tigeruppercut	🟩	0:02	2026-05-05 03:59
demigodrick	🟪	0:05	2026-05-05 03:37
squirrel	🟪	0:08	2026-05-05 20:15

livligkinkajou got the badge for closest-to-zero overall.

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🥇 Most active pressers

Player	Faction	Presses	Total time held	Longest single hold
zedstrian	🟩	15	3h 15m	15:00
squirrel	🟪	15	2h 15m	14:59
dunstabzugshaubitze	🟩	12	2h 45m	14:57
netweirdo	🟪	10	2h 23m	14:58
livligkinkajou	🟩	10	2h 03m	15:00
stegodon	🟪	10	1h 55m	15:00
sebas	🟩	10	1h 53m	14:58

• The longest holds were by Chancellors!

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🏛️ The Galactic Senate

Six elections were held over the course of the game. Five chancellors used their term; the final election ran out the clock with no nominations:

Term	Chancellor	Faction
1	stegodon	🟪 Purple
2	zedstrian	🟩 Green
3	havatra	🟥 Red
4	corvuscornix	🟦 Blue
5	rajtinka	🟪 Purple
6	(unfilled)	—

Notable chancellor moves:

• stegodon opened with a flurry - three royal decrees, two custom badges (⭐ and 🦾), two bonus presses, and a timer bonus
• zedstrian and havatra both leaned hard on Galactic Largesse, twice each
• corvuscornix burned three royal decrees in 20 minutes, a Blue blitz mid-game
• rajtinka wrapped up with two faction bonus presses for Purple, very likely the deciding shove

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Senate Voter Turnout

Election	Faction-vote ballots	Chancellor-vote ballots
1 (start of game)	30	20
2 (overnight)	9	8 ← lowest turnout, the dead-of-night election
3 (early morning)	20	18
4 (lunchtime)	20	14
5 (final)	19	22 ← highest turnout, peak engagement

Engagement climbed steadily into the final hours.

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🧩 The Stranded Jedi puzzle

Master Kellin Vos was waiting in the holocron channel for anyone who could hear him.

• 2 players completed all 9 steps:
  • 🟦 m_f finished 2026-05-05 12:34 (light/dark final reached first)
  • 🥈 w3dd1e finished 2026-05-05 15:33
• 2 more reached step 8 havatra and marauderiic (decoded the Vigenère but didn’t speak the mantra)
• 3 reached step 7 zedstrian, shimozu, corvuscornix
• 5 broke past step 1 beyond that
• 246 messages in the hidden #holocron channel

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💬 Chat

4,272 messages across all channels:

Channel	Messages
#main	2,743
#purple	375
#holocron 🔒	246
#senate	223
#green	211
#red	204
#corvid-chat (pop-up)	144
#blue	126

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Top 10 chatters

#	Player	Faction	Messages
1	w3dd1e	🔴 Red	473
2	corvuscornix	🔵 Blue	424
3	squirrel	🟣 Purple	228
4	rajtinka	🟣 Purple	218
5	havatra	🔴 Red	192
6	zedstrian	🟢 Green	153
7	stegodon	🟣 Purple	126
8	demigodrick	🟢 Green	119
9	dmmacniel	🟢 Green	112
10	comradepupivy	🔴 Red	79

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Top 5 reaction emojis

Emoji	Count
❤️	200
🐦‍⬛	182
😂	133
👍	131
💯	117

The crow emoji, added to the picker only hours before the game ended, landed in second place behind the heart. A late-game phenomenon.

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🎖️ Final badges

• 🥇 stegodon - first to press the button
• 🥈 w3dd1e - runner-up Jedi
• 🟦 m_f - light-side Jedi master
• 🛡️ Sentinels - demigodrick, comradepupivy, squirrel, zedstrian, tigeruppercut, havatra
• 🛡️🏁 livligkinkajou - sentinel + closest-to-zero
• ⚡ siv9939 - chancellor’s electric custom badge

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🔝 Top referrers

Recruitment chain MVPs:

Player	Faction	Sign-ups brought in
zedstrian	🟩	8
dunstabzugshaubitze	🟩	7
squirrel	🟪	5
livligkinkajou	🟩	3
snoopy	🟩	2

Green ran the strongest referral game (20 sign-ups), but Purple’s existing roster was already big enough to translate into wins on the board.

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📊 By the numbers

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• Most presses by one player: 15 (zedstrian and squirrel, tied)
• Average press timer remaining: 14:18
• Unused presses across all factions: 581 (more than were actually used!)

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⏰ Hourly Heatmap

Press volume climbed steadily into the final evening (UTC):

Shading legend: 0 · ░ 1–2 · ▒ 3–5 · ▓ 6–9 · █ 10+

Hour (UTC)	🟦 Blue	🟩 Green	🟪 Purple	🟥 Red	Total	Bar
May 04 20:00	▒ 4	█ 10	▓ 9	▓ 6	29	███████████████
May 04 21:00	░ 1	▒ 4	▒ 4	▒ 3	12	██████
May 04 22:00	▒ 5	▒ 5	▒ 3	▒ 5	18	█████████
May 04 23:00	▒ 3	▒ 5	░ 2	░ 2	12	██████
May 05 00:00	░ 2	░ 1	░ 2	░ 2	7	███
May 05 01:00	▓ 6	▒ 3	░ 2	▒ 3	14	███████
May 05 02:00	░ 2	▒ 3	░ 2	▒ 4	11	█████
May 05 03:00	0	▒ 4	░ 2	▒ 3	9	████
May 05 04:00	▒ 3	░ 1	░ 2	▒ 3	9	████
May 05 05:00	0	░ 1	░ 1	░ 1	3	█
May 05 06:00	▒ 3	▓ 8	▒ 3	▒ 5	19	█████████
May 05 07:00	░ 2	░ 2	▓ 6	▒ 3	13	██████
May 05 08:00	0	0	▓ 7	░ 2	9	████
May 05 09:00	▒ 5	▒ 3	░ 2	░ 2	12	██████
May 05 10:00	░ 1	▒ 4	▓ 6	░ 2	13	██████
May 05 11:00	▒ 3	▒ 3	▓ 6	▒ 3	15	███████
May 05 12:00	▓ 8	█ 14	█ 20	░ 2	44	██████████████████████ ← peak
May 05 13:00	▓ 8	█ 15	█ 15	▒ 4	42	█████████████████████
May 05 14:00	▒ 3	▓ 6	▒ 5	▒ 3	17	████████
May 05 15:00	▒ 3	▒ 3	▒ 3	▓ 6	15	███████
May 05 16:00	░ 1	▓ 7	▓ 8	▒ 4	20	██████████
May 05 17:00	░ 1	░ 1	▒ 5	▒ 3	10	█████
May 05 18:00	░ 2	▓ 8	▓ 9	█ 10	29	██████████████
May 05 19:00	▒ 5	█ 20	█ 21	▒ 3	49	████████████████████████ ← peak
May 05 20:00	▓ 7	▓ 9	█ 10	░ 1	27	█████████████
May 05 21:00	░ 1	▓ 8	▓ 6	0	15	███████
Total	79	148	161	85	473
Chat volume followed a similar curve, peaking at 323 messages in the 20:00 hour as the season raced toward the finish.

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🌐 The Fediverse Showed Up

Players came from 49 different Fediverse instances. Top contributors:

Instance	Players
lemmy.zip	65
lemmy.world	32
feddit.org	22
sh.itjust.works	13
piefed.social	7
lemmy.ml	7
discuss.tchncs.de	5
sopuli.xyz	4
startrek.website	3
piefed.zip	3

…plus 39 more instances with 1–2 players each. A genuinely cross-platform crowd.

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🐦‍⬛ Honourable Mentions

• Corvid Chat - the first admin pop-up channel ever spawned. 144 messages in roughly an hour. The crow emoji that arrived in the same patch promptly took silver in the reactions chart.
• The 8-vote election - election 2 fired at 02:30 UTC and got 8 chancellor votes. The dead-of-night turnout floor.
• The Light Side Choice - m_f could have hoarded ten bonus presses for themselves. They didn’t. Whoever you are: that’s a Jedi move. 🟦

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Bugs!

There were a couple of bugs in this Season, for which I apologise profusely for. One ended up wiping the database mid game. I managed to recover most things, but fastest press is not correct sadly, just an approximation based on chat timestamps :(

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Until next season. 🟪