Reddit is bringing back r/Place at possibly the worst possible time

As you might expect, users are already use announcement post To express your grievances towards the company. The current top comment in reply to the post simply says “Fuck you/Spez” (“Spez” is CEO Steve Huffman’s Reddit username), and several other comments simply say “API”, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see that sentiment. Appears somehow on this year’s r/place canvas.

I think even reddit You may know that the time is not good. In a short announcement video, the company’s tagline for the event is “Right place, wrong time.” In a separate postA Reddit admin (staffer) shared a series of extended dates for when r/place will launch – it was supposed to go live in early April but kept getting delayed:

Previous r/place experiments took place in 2017 and 2022. (Josh Wardle, who later built and then sold Wordsthought the idea for r/place, According to newsweek.) final canvas for each ( .2017, 2022) are truly fascinating pieces of art, with things like country flags, memes, and video game iconography all smashed together into colorful pixel collages.

For the 2023 edition, Reddit is letting subreddit moderators coordinate “pins” on the canvas to help community members navigate certain areas more easily. Although it sounds useful, I imagine some communities will use this feature to help focus their protest efforts.

Reddit declined to comment. It is unclear how long this year’s edition of r/place will be open for contributions; 2017 edition happened more than 72 hoursWhile the 2022 edition was built in four days.

By the way, this announcement helped me figure out where the ugly pixelated Reddit app logo is from: you can see it in Reddit’s r/Place announcement video. For some reason, that video also includes pixelated images of a trash can on fire.