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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.

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[–] Geek_King 221 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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!"

[–] CataclysmZA 116 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So that's what he's calling it these days

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Lol I was just taking a cheap shot at spez by claiming he calls his penis "potential"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

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

[–] assassinatedbyCIA 4 points 1 year ago

Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.

[–] rDrDr 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Place was always very popular, it makes sense to roll it out whenever publicity tanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

According to the article, they kept pushing it back because, uhm, reasons.

[–] whatsarefoogee 9 points 1 year ago

You can bet your ass it will be heavily moderated.

[–] mrc 1 points 1 year ago

I couldn’t have said it better