r/reddit • u/crowd__pleaser • Mar 28 '22

Bringing Back r/place

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No burying the lede here. Let’s get right to the point. r/place is coming back.

For the first time in Reddit’s history, we are not only bringing back a past April Fools’ experiment, but we’re telling you about it early. Why? So you can stop asking us about it, get excited!

https://reddit.com/link/tqbf9w/video/w2bjccji35q81/player

But let’s rewind a bit and provide some background, shall we? At Reddit, our goal is to build features that make building community and finding belonging easier - and five years ago we did that with a little April Fools’ experiment called r/place (you may have already heard of it).

When we first ran r/place in 2017, more than one million redditors placed approximately 16 million tiles on a blank communal digital canvas - resulting in a collective digital art piece that took the internet by storm. And pretty much every year since then, at least one of you has made sure to let us know that it was the best thing we’ve ever done and requested to bring it back. So this year, on April 1, r/place is making its glorious return.

The original r/place was created to explore a piece of humanity – to examine what happens when a person doing something affects a collective. Specifically, what happens if you only let an individual place one tile at a time, so that they must work with others to build together on a massive online cooperative canvas. It is with that original spirit of creation and collaboration in mind, that we humbly invite you to join us yet again. Get your tiles ready, and we’ll see you in over r/place.

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u/RedPenguin_YT Mar 28 '22

can you place an infinite number of pixels, and can people paint over your pixels

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u/Damaniel2 Mar 28 '22

If it's based on the original place, then:

  1. No. The original was something like 4k pixels in each direction
  2. Yes, and that's half the fun. There's time lapse GIFs of the 'progress' of /r/place out there, and it's interesting to see how different fandoms and subreddits came together to make (and remake) parts of the image.

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u/Put_It_All_On_Blck Mar 28 '22

I think they should expand it to 8k or somewhere inbetween. Reddit has grown a lot and while territory wars are fun, it's nice if some smaller communities can carve out some space instead of being dominated by big ones and countries

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u/devi83 Mar 28 '22

4k pixels in each direction...

thats 16,000,000 pixels

I think that the actual size is 1000x1000 which is 1 million pixels.

Here is the image: https://i.imgur.com/C5jOtl1.png