Yes. Yes he can.
I can’t even view it on mobile without logging in or getting an app.
He seems desperate to make Reddit work. It seems that he can’t take the ego hit to back pedal his decision and is trying to figure out a way forward.
My gut says this is an effort to make employees feel good after layoffs and protests, but also this looks to be someone to juice the monthly active users metric before an IPO roadshow or fundraising or something.
Ironically /r/place would be a good opportunity to win users to the official app, they probably should have done that before the API price changes to shake the tree of third party apps, so to speak.
Anyways, this is going to be 80% “fuck /u/spez” memes, a German flag, the Apollo logo, and a perfect OSU game logo.
I almost decided to make an account just to participate in the new /r/place, but then I would be supporting Reddit.
It’s really apparent that Spez and the rest of the admin team don’t actually use Reddit on a day to day basis. Their decisions are like some consultant coming in and recommending ideas.
Yes.
Next question.
Sorry. What’s r/Place?
First sentence of the article:
Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas
More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/place
Yeah I deleted the comment immediately as soon as I read the article but I guess I still got replies
It’s a limited-time event that Reddit occasionally does where users can all draw on a large, shared board, one pixel at a time. There’s a time limit on how often you can draw a single pixel. A lot of subreddits would get together to organize and plan out images for their communities to draw. And since it’s a single, shared whiteboard, you have a lot of communities competing with each other over space and vandalizing each other’s works. Then usually at the end Reddit will create a full-size PNG of the “completed” work and end the event.
It’s usually seen as a melting pot of the communities, where people could get together and interact with groups they probably wouldn’t have otherwise. Launching this now, when they’re facing so much backlash over a slew of ridiculous policy changes that have forced many users off the platform, is an incredibly delusional move on their part.
There are two things that Reddit wants to do with opening /r/Place again:
1: Trick the users into thinking that Reddit still cares about the community that they’ve nickeled and dimed off the platform
2: Force more people into using the official app and new web layout, since /r/Place can’t be interacted with using third-party apps or old.reddit
Or 3. Something to boost engagement numbers they can show potential shareholders.
r/place being filled with API protest signs would be really hilarious
You know admins can easily remove anything drawn there. They are trying to bring traffic back, because of the upcoming IPO.
I’ve been working with some other people on discord. The plan is to spam the entire canvas with tiny API’s like amogus was last time. We’ve got it down to 4x7 pixels
But isn’t that just giving Reddit more traffic and doing exactly what spez wants us to do? 
Oh I wouldn’t give spez the satisfaction of me giving him traffic. I’m more talking about the redditors who are still there for some reason.
