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Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 302 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant "fuck /u/spez" ?

[–] whileloop 149 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second...

[–] Usernameblankface 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] jaamesbaxterr 15 points 1 year ago

We shall eagerly await your report. Lol

[–] ComeHereOrIHookYou 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a plan! Time to log in on my Reddit account.... wait... oh.... right 😏

[–] qooqie 128 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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!”

[–] justhach 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] LUHG_HANI 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True but surely a full page spez hate graphic wouldn't do well for them.

[–] graphite 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] LUHG_HANI 2 points 1 year ago

Looks pretty fuck spez to me pal.

[–] teuast 4 points 1 year ago

this is their cnn trump town hall. ten bucks says traffic spikes for /r/place and then drops below pre-/r/place levels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tbf, I don’t recall r/Place ever working on 3rd-party clients.

[–] dreadedsemi 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Admin can remove it easily like last year. They removed several things they didn't want.

[–] kernelle 5 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping sentiment is shared enough for this not to be effective. We'll see