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View submission: I'll miss you /r/place
But a video doesn't have pixels being altered by everyone on the site.
The fact is, they're two very different things and shouldn't seriously be compared. But for a joke, it's pretty funny.
Comment by qgustavor at 04/04/2022 at 21:04 UTC
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I imagined that Place first send a snapshot in the first load then small packets with only coordinates and colors, and so each pixel would take just around 5 bytes. When I checked the WebSocket connection in the dev tools I noticed that it, in fact, send URLs to image files. I wonder why.
Comment by Brooklynxman at 05/04/2022 at 00:01 UTC
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The fact is, they're two very different things and shouldn't seriously be compared.
They can though, because one is a main feature of the site that a dozen other sites have been doing better for over a decade and the other is a two-time special event with few things like it having been done before or since. They're technically different, yes, but one should still definitely be doing better than the other, and things aren't the right way round.