This Button Will Self-destruct (dot) xyz by spthiel

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made by spthiel for Ludum Dare 50 (COMPO)

Inspiration

TBWSD (this button will self-destruct) is inspired by This Website Will Self-destruct (dot) com as well as 'The Button' from Hermitcraft Season 7 which in turn was based on the 2015 Reddits April fools' event r/thebutton (that I did not know of until after starting the website)

General concept

Every second the button ticks down and it has a total livespan of 86400 ticks. (So a full day)
Each click adds a single tick to the button (unless the bar is full, then it will just do nothing).
If you click the button while it is in a color your account will receive that color.
If the bar hits 0, the site will immediately terminate all connections and allow no further access

Accounts

I decided to have accounts be managed via Discord OAuth. Your username from discord will be used for the chat and the leaderboards (everything you do until you login will be lost if you leave the site - including to log in).
Nothing besides your userid, username and interactions on the site are stored.

Ratings

Given 4🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 221199
04. Apr 2022 · 16:18 UTC
This fits the theme really well. It's nice that you added global leaderboards.
MAT4DOR
04. Apr 2022 · 16:37 UTC
Nice.

I clicked over 400 times and it barely moved, it would be nice to have a measure of how many steps are left.

It's really identical to mine as you said. I wasn't aware of that self destructing website. I knew someone had done something similar before.
LDJam user 281060
04. Apr 2022 · 19:12 UTC
I couldn't figure out how to think about strategy or my choices