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View submission: Sequence - Recapping The Fools of April
I would rather do /r/place every year. This was lame.
Comment by cy0nknight at 08/05/2019 at 18:54 UTC
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Place was the perfect snapshot of Reddit (and 4chan). Imagine doing that every year to see what's on Reddit's brain.
Comment by youngluck at 08/05/2019 at 19:06 UTC
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Place was amazing. It holds a special place in all of our hearts as a moment equivalent to witnessing the birth of magic. In fact, I'm hard-pressed to think of any internet experiences that aren't somewhat 'lame' in comparison. But we still build stuff every year for people to play with... some people play and have fun. Some don't. I respect your opinion either way.
Comment by MaxChaplin at 08/05/2019 at 22:32 UTC
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In its latter stages, Place was beginning to get invaded by scripted bots. Right after Place had ended several clones appeared, and they were generally full of 4chan edgy loli shit.
Place was good because it caught Reddit's community in its innocent stage, before the trolls got the hang of how to ruin it. If Place 2 ever appears, they will come ready.
This is why Reddit needs a different April Fools project every year.
Comment by wiseguy68 at 08/05/2019 at 18:49 UTC
21 upvotes, 1 direct replies
ya I came to say something along these lines.
maybe not do r/place again, but i do think it was much cooler..
what came out of r/sequence just seems.. really crappy. and what came out of r/place was one of the coolest things ive seen on reddit
Comment by blatantlyevan at 08/05/2019 at 19:07 UTC
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Yea this was quite underwhelming honestly. Made it through the first 2:30 minutes if the video but like it's just the same gifs I see every day on here and have seen for like 10 years... just in a video that's way too long.
Comment by [deleted] at 08/05/2019 at 19:44 UTC
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Same.
I still remember figuring out that r/HASKELL can be turned into r/PYTHON in ~25 steps and starting in a bit of light hearted programming battle over their territory.
Good to see the admins trying new things. If I recall, the operational aspect of r/place was horribly done, literally using their production RMQ cluster. So they would probably need to shore up the stability before doing it again. But I'd be down for it to be an annual thing in addition to any other projects.