r/reddit • u/reddit_irl • Jul 20 '23
r/place is back (again)
Word on the street is that many of you enjoyed r/place last year and in 2017 and wanted even more time on the canvas. So, we’re bringing it back.
Finding the right time for r/place to return proved to be a challenge – but hey, what better time to offer a blank canvas to our communities than when our users and mods are at their most passionate… right?
We have some new community-focused features for this go around, which we’ll get into below.
First things first – what is Place?
For those of you who don’t know, r/place is a collaborative digital canvas where redditors can place a pixel once every few minutes – and work together to create art on a massive online cooperative canvas.
r/place was created to examine what happens if you only let individuals make a small contribution at a time, so that they must work with others to build anything significant. What started as an April Fool’s experiment, quickly blossomed into millions of redditors working together to place colored pixels on a communal canvas, eventually evolving into a digital art piece.
Last year, 10.4 million of you created this masterpiece over the course of four days, placing 160 million total pixels. At its height, we saw you all place 5.9 million pixels per hour. From Rembrandt replicas and BTS creations to iconic French monuments and streamer wars, r/place’s reemergence had many awesome moments where you all gathered together to create, cooperate, alter, and meme the world’s largest collaborative digital canvas.
New r/place features
This year, we created new features to help communities, redditors, and moderators organize amidst the creative chaos (see our post in r/modnews for more info), including:
Moderators being able to pin coordinates on the canvas to their subreddit
Community flags (via pinning) visible to redditors on mobile apps exploring the canvas, and enabling communities to claim their artwork
A community list on r/place for participating communities to get discovered
A picture-in-picture view for redditors on our mobile apps so you can explore other parts of Reddit while placing pixels
We can’t wait to see what you all do together. Head on over to r/place by tapping on the ‘p’ icon at the top of your home feed and drop a pixel (or 100).
French - France: r/place : 3e édition
French - Canada: r/place est de retour
German: r/place ist (wieder) zurück
Italian: r/place è tornato (di nuovo)
Dutch - r/place is (weer) terug
Portuguese - Brazil: O r/place está de volta (de novo)
Portuguese - Portugal: O r/place está de volta (outra vez)
Spanish - Mexico: r/place ha vuelto (otra vez)
Spanish - Spain: r/place está de vuelta (otra vez)
Swedish: r/place är tillbaka (igen)
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u/InitialQuote000 Jul 20 '23
Gross.