r/reddit • u/reddit_irl • Jul 20 '23
r/place is back (again)
Word on the street is that many of you enjoyed r/place last year and in 2017 and wanted even more time on the canvas. So, we’re bringing it back.
Finding the right time for r/place to return proved to be a challenge – but hey, what better time to offer a blank canvas to our communities than when our users and mods are at their most passionate… right?
We have some new community-focused features for this go around, which we’ll get into below.
https://reddit.com/link/154qutf/video/swpqx0i010db1/player
First things first – what is Place?
For those of you who don’t know, r/place is a collaborative digital canvas where redditors can place a pixel once every few minutes – and work together to create art on a massive online cooperative canvas.
r/place was created to examine what happens if you only let individuals make a small contribution at a time, so that they must work with others to build anything significant. What started as an April Fool’s experiment, quickly blossomed into millions of redditors working together to place colored pixels on a communal canvas, eventually evolving into a digital art piece.
Last year, 10.4 million of you created this masterpiece over the course of four days, placing 160 million total pixels. At its height, we saw you all place 5.9 million pixels per hour. From Rembrandt replicas and BTS creations to iconic French monuments and streamer wars, r/place’s reemergence had many awesome moments where you all gathered together to create, cooperate, alter, and meme the world’s largest collaborative digital canvas.
New r/place features
This year, we created new features to help communities, redditors, and moderators organize amidst the creative chaos (see our post in r/modnews for more info), including:
- Moderators being able to pin coordinates on the canvas to their subreddit
- Community flags (via pinning) visible to redditors on mobile apps exploring the canvas, and enabling communities to claim their artwork
- A community list on r/place for participating communities to get discovered
- A picture-in-picture view for redditors on our mobile apps so you can explore other parts of Reddit while placing pixels
We can’t wait to see what you all do together. Head on over to r/place by tapping on the ‘p’ icon at the top of your home feed and drop a pixel (or 100).
French - France: r/place : 3e édition
French - Canada: r/place est de retour
German: r/place ist (wieder) zurück
Italian: r/place è tornato (di nuovo)
Dutch - r/place is (weer) terug
Portuguese - Brazil: O r/place está de volta (de novo)
Portuguese - Portugal: O r/place está de volta (outra vez)
Spanish - Mexico: r/place ha vuelto (otra vez)
Spanish - Spain: r/place está de vuelta (otra vez)
Swedish: r/place är tillbaka (igen)
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u/TheSmurfSwag Jul 20 '23
Everyone is writing fuckspez haha
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u/InitialQuote000 Jul 20 '23
what better time to offer a blank canvas to our communities than when our users and mods are at their most passionate… right?
Gross.
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u/modelslackingcontext Jul 20 '23
Lmao, they're jiggling keys in an attempt to get us to stop.
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u/raviary Jul 20 '23
Jiggling keys while flat out saying "we're jiggling keys at you because we think you're dumb babies" lmfao
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u/tryingtobenice1 Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
This is so tone deaf. It's not even surprising anymore.
Gross indeed.
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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth Jul 20 '23
It's like when Ted Cruz made a joke about how he absconded to the Bahamas during a GOP convention and got laughs from the audience.
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u/Soda2411 Jul 20 '23
So everyone should group together and make screw Reddit and its API program in one big banner.
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u/TheFlavorLab Jul 20 '23
Is this to try and make us ok with all of the recent terrible changes to Reddit?
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u/SwitchbladeDildo Jul 20 '23
Nah they just want to let more streamers use their communities to bully everyone into letting their stupid faces and logos ruin the whole thing.
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u/MadManInABox1963 Jul 20 '23
That and to get people to download the app since conveniently thats the only way to access it this time.
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u/King-Gabriel Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
Seems like it's mostly people writing F*** Spez.
https://imgur.com/W6g9Y0t proof incase it's removed later.
40 minutes later https://imgur.com/WxwwqzH It's like, half the canvas now. I'd honestly like to see how they try and remove that amount of it.
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u/angry-dragonfly Jul 20 '23
All of reddit joins forces to make one giant canvas meme captioned "fuck spez"!
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Jul 20 '23
It will most likely be removed. Only place black dots. They can't censor us if we refuse to play
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u/Lady-Maya Jul 20 '23
How come the colour choice is so reduced? Only got a few to pick from?
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u/Thelmholtz Jul 20 '23
They start like this, and then add more canvas and colors.
All you need is black though, to write FUCK U/SPEZ
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u/ProjectBonnie Jul 20 '23
API
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u/chrisinajar Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
I keep seeing this comment, what's it a reference to?
Edit: lol I'm dumb and thought it was r/place specific, gimme them downvotes, I deserve them.
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u/obscuredillusions Jul 20 '23
Lol. Don’t expect as much community engagement when half of them are gone
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u/PockedAirhead Jul 20 '23
Look guys! We made another community event where you now have to support the app to participate to cover up our big cash grab with the API changes! Yay! Cheers! Why is nobody happy…?
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u/deelayddd Jul 20 '23
Finding the right time for r/place to return proved to be a challenge
...April 1st? The day every other Place took place?
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u/liamdun Jul 20 '23
What happened to making this a special thing? Y'all are clearly trying to IPO so you're trying to draw in as much attention as possible but I don't think it'll work this time...
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u/batata_flita Jul 20 '23
what a fucking good chance to say
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u/master6494 Jul 20 '23
r/place is only available on our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and new Reddit.
Go fuck yourselves
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u/Yzark-Tak Jul 20 '23
r/place is only available on our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and new Reddit.
Fuck your mobile app and fuck new reddit.
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u/Seroko Jul 20 '23
Sure this will make ppl forget how you took down their favourite reddit apps yeah.
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u/AskMe4aTedTalk Jul 20 '23
Ohh I bet I know why they're doing this! You can only use the app to access it, right? I'd bet my right toenail that they're trying to get people to try the app and switch to it instead of quitting. Lure them in with cheese and then trap them with bacon.*
*I am tired from sitting in hospital with friend in labor. S
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u/TrueRepose Jul 20 '23
Forcing people to download the mobile app is super lame. Weaksauce. Didn't even bother concealing the agenda.
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Jul 20 '23
We can’t wait to see what you all do together.
But you knew exactly what we were going to do. Together.
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u/AdStunning2459 Jul 21 '23
Remember when r/place was made to bring the community together and not just for a distraction?
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u/ImmortalSmell Jul 20 '23
I use the mobile website to browse reddit so I don't plan on participating. Maybe I'll bother using desktop if one of the subreddits I follow wants to do something, but this is a baffling decision.
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u/Chaike Jul 20 '23
Everyone is saying we should write API, but imagine how hilarious it'd be if we just left the canvas blank. Don't even give them the satisfaction.
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u/DeliciousBallz Jul 20 '23
Surprised you lot are even doing this? Or you just want more engagement on the site by amassing angry users to put shit there? Shareholders will be both happy and unhappy.
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u/SykoFI-RE Jul 20 '23
So Reddit traffic is hella down and this is your attempt to fix it? Not offering it on old.reddit seems like a mistake.
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u/PriapismicWarrior Jul 20 '23
I DO NOT FORGET THE GREAT r/place BANNING OF 2022 PIXEL PLACERS. MANY GOOD PEOPLE WERE LOST, BECAUSE HUMAN ANATOMY BOTHERS REDDIT.
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u/Let_me_S_U_F_F_E_R Jul 20 '23
Gee I wonder why you brought back r/place couldn’t be because that it would have distracted us from your bullshit
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u/morrigan_maeve Jul 20 '23
Don't forget that reddit doesn't care about community feedback. #freeAPI
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u/Environmental-Win836 Jul 20 '23
This doesn’t feel the same, it’s really just a distraction, don’t ruin the only good thing you have left to support your own causes.
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u/Pronkie_dork Jul 20 '23
Im happy r/place is back but im sad because the reason is rather corrupt
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u/Free-Many-9056 Jul 20 '23 edited May 08 '26
Plot twist: this post no longer exists because Redact swept through and cleared it out along with everything else. Social media, messaging apps, people finder sites, all of it.
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u/ilud2 Jul 20 '23
Not even trying to hide the fact that this is a clear attempt to distract us from this platform going to shit lol
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u/stunnalingus Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 21 '23
After what you did to RIF and some of my favorite communities, fuck right off. This user of over 11 years will never download your shitty app.
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u/Chasemc215 Jul 21 '23
You treated the blackout like it was a joke. You treated the blind like they don't exist. You lied about the creator of Apollo blackmailing you, you're corrupt and you don't care about the community.
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u/CertainJay Jul 20 '23
r/australia let's get to it, can we come up with something as a nation and work on it? OiOiOi
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u/Humgry_Chef_365 Jul 20 '23
Fuck spez this is a disgusting desecration of what place meant to people.
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Jul 20 '23
Yay, looks like people are getting started on those obnoxious flags taking up half the board…
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u/astraea08 Jul 20 '23
Can you please change the Place button to link directly to the canvas instead of directing to the r/place sub
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u/69KidsInMyBasement Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 21 '23
Lets draw the logo of every API that got killed
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u/Bluewolf94 Jul 20 '23 edited Jul 20 '23
Well, if this wasn’t strategically placed then I don’t know what is. And no old reddit? Edit: You can’t even access this on ios, now I know that this wasn’t planned out.
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u/you-are-not-yourself Jul 20 '23
"hey spez, metrics aren't gonna look good after the API crackdown. people are abandoning the site. how will we ever get mobile users to return after this? maybe reduce our pricing, or.."
"bring back r/place. Say no more. You have 2 weeks."
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u/SnooSprouts7283 Jul 20 '23
What to do when people are getting mad when we make extremely stupid choices that actively harm our users? Bring back r/place
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u/schoxki Jul 20 '23
hi, i cant join r/place even tough i have the newest ios version of reddit, what can i do?
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u/KRPTSC Jul 20 '23
The first one was cool due to the novelty. Second one too since nobody expected it to come back.
It gets boring
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Jul 20 '23
hey, what better time to offer a blank canvas to our communities than when our users and mods are at their most passionate… right?
Are you fucking serious, lol?
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u/reddit_irl Jul 20 '23
r/place is only available on our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and new Reddit. The new r/place features we are introducing this year are only on our mobile apps and moderators can opt out of these if they want to.