I have noticed on occasion websites with a missing button. Now I know what happened. Finally, closure.

There's a Chrome Extension he made based on this: https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons/button-stealer

I used it for a bit until I realized... I probably didn't want a third party reading all my traffic. But I did like having it for a bit.

(It is linked from the page, but given how the whole page is CTAs... it's hard to notice!)

Careful you might run afoul of the infinite scrolling laws.

Too bad they're just static, as the website doesn't copy the hover state or the on-click animations.

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. :)

Funny, it reminds me of War Of The Buttons, a famous French movie from 1962, where kids would cut out buttons from their enemies as a war trophy, and stash them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Buttons_(1962_film)

The buttons (at 2:25) : https://youtu.be/O5StEEzpT04?t=145

Button components across major component galleries:

https://component.gallery/components/button/

Im blown away by how ugly they all are. The worse part is that this is what users expect now. If you so much as put an icon on the corner they cant find the button anymore.

If you blockchain your buttons they are much harder to steal.

Just putting this out there for those who are not in the know. This type of crisis is easily avoidable.

For inspiration, I prefer this one:

https://uiverse.io/buttons

I'm sad that buttons are no longer interesting.

Surprising how not one of these made my heart beat faster.

That's rude. Give them back

What a lovely idea.

I hope there will be some kind of online museum of web design trends before the web turns into something else, and maybe paradigms such as "buttons" will stop being as interesting any more.

I guess I should

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just like the site's author :D

Maybe something like tvtropes.com, but for web application design, and of course with visual examples.

I suppose this is a healthier hobby than stealing hotel towels and ashtrays.

I wish there was a way to exclude the plain ones (single color rectangle with rounded corners and text).

I had my button stolen but it's not in this inventory. The perpetrator is still out there somewhere parading it or selling it on the black market. I'm still losing sleep over it. I lost my job, wife and car. Still praying for justice to be served one day.

I reported it to the FBI but still no response from them. This shit is serious guys and when will it end?

10000 buttons and not a single engaging Call To Action

I can’t look, so many arrows poorly aligned with text - how can these developers live with themselves!

Are we in flat design for way too long or is this a recent idea and the collection is also very recent?

It would be lovely to see some of those converted into enamelled metal badges.

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.

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.

It would be interesting if it was possible to sort them by similarity, width, height, shape, color, etc.

Interesting choice to hotlink all the images! The side-effect is that some are dead now.

You're visiting boring websites. I only saw one barely skeuomorphic button

You should deduplicate and offer a cluster view with similarity distance

Can anyone comment on the legality of this? By the number I see, this would no longer be classified as simple possession, but likely as intent to distribute.

Great, how are we supposed to use those websites now? No wonder web is breaking down

610 buttons are anchor elements, and only 285 are actually real buttons.

You made my day. What a joyful, weird, fun projec!

It reminds me a bit of the toolbar mania in the nineties :)

So few of them look clickable.

People will do any useless thing to self-promote.

this is really great like collecting bottle caps except is buttons

He's as obsessed with buttons as "Mr. Lossoff" the "Button Man" in "A Nero Wolfe Mystery” episode “The Mother Hunt”, where Archie drops in on "Mister Lossoff’s Distinguished Buttons” in the garment district of New York:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-QgWOSVKm4&t=724s

So many different looking buttons. Wish there were more standards.

So this is basically the Thanos of web devs

none of them work

Yoink

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...

Very nice.

Now let’s see Paul Allen’s buttons