Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time::Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when user dissatisfaction with the platform is very high.
Wish I still had a reddit account to help write fuck u/spez
Its a trap. The best way to fight reddit is to not even engage. Imagine r/place was left blank because no one was there.
Imagine r/place was left blank because no one was there.
That would be amazing but also not gonna happen
Edit: instead maybe the mods at r/pics can convince everyone to only place white pixels on the canvas
It’s funny how individually we can do the right thing but together is a whole other beast.
One massive, throbbing, pixelated John Oliver.
Especially since it was revealed Reddit employees had access to /r/places without a timer. They’d just fill it with random shit if it was dead (which it won’t be, because streamers will get people to flock there regardless).
So… how many divksnare going to get drawn with spez’s name on it?
Edit: chtorr is probably gonna get caught over painting things again. Probably even has minions doing it this time
That doesn’t seem like a prudent idea.
“Hmm, a lot of people are incredibly unhappy with decisions we’ve made in relation to Reddit, we should give them a highly visible visual way to express themselves and see what happens!”
You can bet your ass it will be heavily moderated.
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Place was always very popular, it makes sense to roll it out whenever publicity tanks.
But it’s just the randomness of it being release on a random july Wednesday just over a year after releasing the last one. Idk if people will care as much about this one
According to the article, they kept pushing it back because, uhm, reasons.
Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.
What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.
So that’s what he’s calling it these days
You are missing the point. People will return there to partake. r/place was immensely popular.
Most people expected a 5 year wait. So for most people this becomes a refreshing surprise. And for the duration of the event, many people on Lemmy will return to Reddit. They will partake in organising pixelart and thereby getting pulled back into Reddit communities.
Lol I was just taking a cheap shot at spez by claiming he calls his penis “potential”
💀
Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.
Spez has never had the gift of foresight. Reddit was Paul Graham’s idea after he shot down the idea that Huffman and Ohanian pitched
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/how-steve-huffman-and-alexis-ohanian-built-reddit
You don’t need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.
I couldn’t have said it better
No such thing as bad publicity and for reddit’s case no such thing as bad user engagement. He could right in that area. As much as reddit users complain as long as they keep engaged with the platform instead of doing it somewhere else and keep visiting it frequently to vent their frustrations it’s a win. Engagement is engagement.
Oops! All swastikas!
It’ll probably be a giant “Fuck /u/spez”
then spez will ban every account that contributed to it
Nah it will be covered up by the admin brigade and cause more Trubble for reddit.
By the sounds of it, the staff at reddit also hate u/spez, so maybe they’ll join in
I’ve been sending the other admins messages (not directly obviously) like “he can’t fire all of you”. 😈
Devious!
So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant “fuck /u/spez” ?
Admin can remove it easily like last year. They removed several things they didn’t want.
I’m hoping sentiment is shared enough for this not to be effective. We’ll see
That would require logging into Reddit. I have a feeling this is to boost clicks for a really poor months performance so they can say “look 3rd party apps being dead is fine!”
True but surely a full page spez hate graphic wouldn’t do well for them.
Lol. It wouldn’t make a dent.
Truth is the people shouting “fuck Spez” is a small minority.
Everyone knows about Reddit. Not very many are that invested to care.
Looks pretty fuck spez to me pal.
Ding ding ding
I mean, its pretty transparent attempt by spez to boost.interactions with the site, but that won’t stop people from doing exactly what spez wants them to do.
this is their cnn trump town hall. ten bucks says traffic spikes for /r/place and then drops below pre-/r/place levels.
Tbf, I don’t recall r/Place ever working on 3rd-party clients.
Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second…
Sounds like a plan! Time to log in on my Reddit account… wait… oh… right 😏
If we’re patient, we can see it play out a dozen times in YouTube videos without giving Reddit any traffic.
Edit: I am not patient.
We shall eagerly await your report. Lol
I was looking forward to the next version of r/place in a couple years. Now it’s just utterly pathetic pandering to attempt to bring disaffected users back to the site
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Neither am I, I do kinda wanna know the general consensus of this, cause r/place was cool when it was on April 1st after several years between, now it’s just over a year in between on a random Wednesday.
Someone posted a reddit link to the announcement earlier. The comments were some variation of “bring back.third party apps”, “API”, “fuck /u/spez”, “this is obvious pandering to drive traffic” or debates about how best to vandalize the canvas. And a lot of German people saying German things for some reason lol. The comments there are actually pretty similar to the comments in this thread, minus the Germans
I’m gonna be cracking out the popcorn for this one.
I KNEW IT LOL
I thought that they’d try to bring this back to get media attention and traffic from fans of YouTubers if they try to get involved, to try to divert attention from their shitty management of the siteFixing the Titanic with chewing gum…
… and they forgot to chew it first!
Negative engagement is still engagement… is what spez would say.
That suuuurely won’t blow up in spez’s stupid face /s
Let’s wait for the anti-reddit pixel art. Mods will “cheat” and remove it before it stays too long.
And maybe it will even be removed from the “public” data.
Someone who knows how needs to save a copy of whatever gets posted often.
Oh shit! It’s not a joke ??? I saw that early today and imagined how stupid it would be to launch another r/place right now. Grabs some popcorn people, it’s going to be interesting to watch.
I just don’t have enough pop corn for this shitshow
