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Now those regional subs are littered with one post after another of "come on, we need your help to defend our flag" nonsense.
It's all pointless and divisive.
It was nice to have it back, though I hope they will stick to that 5 year gap. On day 2, the streaming community at large caught up with the project and there were a lot of "wars" happening for space. If you are a small Reddit community, you don't stand a chance against 300,000 people using Tampermonkey to recreate a gigantic drawing in 10 seconds. Having said that, I also hope that the next time it does happen - Red…
However, this year I feel like they gave up on all of that simply to gain more users.
I don't like /r/place - I spend time in several regional subreddits, and they've transferred their nationalistic identity wars to Reddit. They're constantly fighting to build and rebuild their flags. Now those regional subs are littered with one post after another of "come on, we need your help to defend our flag" nonsense. It's all pointless and divisive.
Initially that community struggled to decide on cannabis leaf or maple leaf, just like 5 years ago, leading to inevitable griefing campaigns taking advantage of the internal volatility to successfully turn it into "Bananas" with a yellow flag and a banana in place of the leaf for a short time.
But then the Canadians prevailed in the last hour, with Canada spelled correctly and the maple leaf and even all their provincial flags were added.
At some point during the volatile Canadian flag period the Germans made a perfect maple leaf inside the German flag in about 3 minutes which was amusing.
You can see the Canadian leaf was one of the most volatile map areas on this pixel volatility heatmap:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Mehdi_Moussaid/status/15112531929...
It was nice to have it back, though I hope they will stick to that 5 year gap. On day 2, the streaming community at large caught up with the project and there were a lot of "wars" happening for space. If you are a small Reddit community, you don't stand a chance against 300,000 people using Tampermonkey to recreate a gigantic drawing in 10 seconds. Having said that, I also hope that the next time it does happen - Red…
During the first version of /r/place, there was some mechanism in place to reduce the use of bots such as a CAPTCHA and not allowing newly created accounts to place pixels. However, this year I feel like they gave up on all of that simply to gain more users.
[1] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-announces-confidential...
I don't like /r/place - I spend time in several regional subreddits, and they've transferred their nationalistic identity wars to Reddit. They're constantly fighting to build and rebuild their flags. Now those regional subs are littered with one post after another of "come on, we need your help to defend our flag" nonsense. It's all pointless and divisive.
Last time, wasn't there someone here saying it was easy to do and they could do it in a weekend, and then actually delivered? Can't find it, but perhaps someone here remember more about it?
Last time, wasn't there someone here saying it was easy to do and they could do it in a weekend, and then actually delivered? Can't find it, but perhaps someone here remember more about it?
the harder part is scaling the number of requests and active websockets
The original /r/Place was created (invented?) by /u/powerlanguage who recently rose to prominence again when he created Wordle.
Wordle would have been perfect -- every reddit account getting the little green and black squares display.
Not only that, it spoiled the treasured memory and experience of 2017. This year was so full of hate and fighting over flags, stream raids, bot scripts floating around, none of it felt genuine except maybe people keeping up with the Ukraine flag on day 1. In 2017 it closed with me thinking Reddittors came together to make some cool art, this year it closed with me wondering whether any humans were involved by the end.