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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] 221 points 1 year ago

That doesn't seem like a prudent idea.

"Hmm, a lot of people are incredibly unhappy with decisions we've made in relation to Reddit, we should give them a highly visible visual way to express themselves and see what happens!"

[-] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago

Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

So that's what he's calling it these days

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Spez has never had the gift of foresight. Reddit was Paul Graham's idea after he shot down the idea that Huffman and Ohanian pitched

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/how-steve-huffman-and-alexis-ohanian-built-reddit

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

No such thing as bad publicity and for reddit's case no such thing as bad user engagement. He could right in that area. As much as reddit users complain as long as they keep engaged with the platform instead of doing it somewhere else and keep visiting it frequently to vent their frustrations it's a win. Engagement is engagement.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Place was always very popular, it makes sense to roll it out whenever publicity tanks.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But it’s just the randomness of it being release on a random july Wednesday just over a year after releasing the last one. Idk if people will care as much about this one

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

According to the article, they kept pushing it back because, uhm, reasons.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You can bet your ass it will be heavily moderated.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I couldn’t have said it better

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