The major difference is that an individual reddit account could only press the button once and anonymous presses were not allowed.

A single person can send an unlimited number of messages to this new website.

Given that I would expect this to go longer.

On the other hand, The Button was an april fools experiment on one of the internet's most popular websites and thus garnered a ton of attention. This could easily fade into obscurity much faster.

So who knows!

Also worth noting that accounts created after the start of the event were barred from participating.

Also no recaptcha on the form, so I guess at some point the spam bots of this world will keep this running.

Wikipedia says 2: "the countdown timer reached zero and ended 2 months and 4 days after it had begun"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)

I miss when Reddit April Fools was fun :(

This year's was decent fun, although it was solved in a day or two.