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wuhhh
I can’t look, so many arrows poorly aligned with text - how can these developers live with themselves!
thomasfl
So many different looking buttons. Wish there were more standards.
hmokiguess
You should deduplicate and offer a cluster view with similarity distance
Retr0id
Interesting choice to hotlink all the images! The side-effect is that some are dead now.
aghilmort
this is really great like collecting bottle caps except is buttons
Waterluvian
Is this as easy as calling getComputedStyle on a target element or is there more to it? I love the idea and I want to experiment with automating similar.
senfiaj
Yes, but how does it decide if an element is button? Some are links (<a> tags).
binaryturtle
I may have missed one by looking at this huge dump, but NONE of the "buttons" I saw there actually looked/felt like a button. Something I can feel that I press it down and it gives proper visual feedback, like a little 3D effect.

I'm old-school. :)

makapuf
Exactly, and more broadly ALL of them are a variation of bgcolor + border-radius + padding + font (type, size). No funky shape, borders, FX, 3D / relief or even shadow, pixels... Every single one is a flat, round borders.
winwang
This is a big part of why I am in love in Posthog's design (though personally I have little belief in my own current ability to replicate it)
overfeed
I suspect the best buttons - like the best music - are those from one's youth
input_sh
Too bad they're just static, as the website doesn't copy the hover state or the on-click animations.
hedora
I can't be the only one that tried clicking them to see what they did. ("Where does this 'login' button go?")
finger
It would be interesting if it was possible to sort them by similarity, width, height, shape, color, etc.
firasd
This is like the late 80s/early 90s cyberspace idea... Imagine you're walking through a 3D ramp and all these buttons are yelling at you from all over the atmosphere... Login here! Start here! Contact us...
thih9
I wish there was a way to exclude the plain ones (single color rectangle with rounded corners and text).
iefbr14
It reminds me a bit of the toolbar mania in the nineties :)
JSR_FDED
Surprising how not one of these made my heart beat faster.
ninjahawk1
Very nice.

Now let’s see Paul Allen’s buttons

pmdr
Haha, there was a post about 98.css the other day, I'm pretty sure it's one of those.
modzu
none of them work
sshasan
Oh wow! Curious if you have the collection indexed by the year/month you picked it. Would love to see how button designs and types have changed over the years.
jonathrg
That's rude. Give them back
sodapopcan
This is good comedy. I'm disappointed (annoyed, even) it's not the top comment.
bnj
Great, how are we supposed to use those websites now? No wonder web is breaking down
t-sauer
610 buttons are anchor elements, and only 285 are actually real buttons.
a1o
Are we in flat design for way too long or is this a recent idea and the collection is also very recent?
layer8
It’s definitely been too long, since around 15 years ago.
donohoe
I have noticed on occasion websites with a missing button. Now I know what happened. Finally, closure.
leoc
The legend of the Button-Eater who comes out from his lair somewhere deep inside the Web.
hahahaa
Does he have all the "No" buttons they seem in short supply?
netsharc
It'd be funny if there's a global state shared with everyone who has the button stealer extension installed: so if I stole a button, it'd be missing when you visit the page.
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joncooper
You made my day. What a joyful, weird, fun projec!