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.
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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I’ve simply stopped generating content for them. Some of the third party apps still work without a subscription (probably rate-limited), so while I mostly browse Lemmy, I switch to Reddit when Lemmy’s feed runs out and just don’t add any comments or posts and don’t vote on anything. That way, because they get no ad revenue from me, I’m not benefitting the company in any way. I see no reason to avoid consuming content created by other people and posted online, regardless of what platform they use.
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Huh? I’m not getting ads. Even if I was, the money would be going to third party app devs.
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
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We need a team to collaborate and make a large ad for Lemmy.
Why are they bringing it back? It was always a April fools thing?
It’s their “use in case of emergency” tool.
It was popular so they are bringing it out as a distraction.
My personal theory: to offset activity losses and show shareholders that they can still drive engagement.
The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?
I guarantee you they’ve got a flock of admins sitting there with the tool to replace any pixels they want.
Didn’t that happen last time?
Yep, and someone got video proving it was one mod placing pixels without delay.
The disappearance of the great 2B butt was the downfall of r/place. RIP
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!”
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.
You don’t need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.
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
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.
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.
You can bet your ass it will be heavily moderated.
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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
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!
Negative engagement is still engagement… is what spez would say.
So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant “fuck /u/spez” ?
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.
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.
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.
Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second…
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.
Sounds like a plan! Time to log in on my Reddit account… wait… oh… right 😏
We shall eagerly await your report. Lol
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
Last time I was happily making the Skyrim logo with r/Skyrim. This time I won’t participate. Losing reddit still hurts but I’m happy to be here with y’all.
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!
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.
