Bringing Back r/place

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/tqbf9w/bringing_back_rplace/

created by crowd__pleaser on 28/03/2022 at 15:08 UTC

34140 upvotes, 187 top-level comments (showing 25)

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No burying the lede here. Let’s get right to the point. r/place is coming back.

For the first time in Reddit’s history, we are not only bringing back a past April Fools’ experiment, but we’re telling you about it early. Why? So you can ~~stop asking us about it~~, get excited!

https://reddit.com/link/tqbf9w/video/w2bjccji35q81/player

But let’s rewind a bit and provide some background, shall we? At Reddit, our goal is to build features that make building community and finding belonging easier - and five years ago we did that with a little April Fools’ experiment called r/place (you may have already heard[1] of it).

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/tno8rk/its_no_foolin_the_history_of_april_fools_on_reddit/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

When we first ran r/place in 2017, more than one million redditors placed approximately 16 million tiles on a blank communal digital canvas - resulting in a collective digital art piece[2] that took the internet by storm. And pretty much every year since then, at least one of you has made sure to let us know that it was the best thing we’ve ever done and requested to bring it back. So this year, on April 1, r/place is making its glorious return.

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/6387bz/art_upvote_this_so_its_what_shows_up_when_you/

The original r/place was created to explore a piece of humanity – to examine what happens when a person doing something affects a collective. Specifically, what happens if you only let an individual place one tile at a time, so that they must work with others to build together on a massive online cooperative canvas. It is with that original spirit of creation and collaboration in mind, that we humbly invite you to join us yet again. Get your tiles ready, and we’ll see you in over r/place.

Comments

Comment by crowd__pleaser at 01/04/2022 at 13:07 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The canvas is officially open!

See you in r/place

Comment by Padgeman at 28/03/2022 at 15:10 UTC

1384 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Neat. Is it going away again after April 1st?

Comment by Veggie at 28/03/2022 at 15:26 UTC

361 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Predicting that this is actually an early April Fool's joke and they are doing something else...

Comment by Halaku at 28/03/2022 at 15:15 UTC

926 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Place was better.

Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2022 at 15:27 UTC

460 upvotes, 4 direct replies

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Comment by MajorParadox at 28/03/2022 at 15:58 UTC

1599 upvotes, 7 direct replies

What if this is the April Fools? And it turns out r/place isn't coming back? 😆

Comment by glider97 at 28/03/2022 at 15:21 UTC

341 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Time to polish those bots. /s

Hope there are better restrictions in place this time, but technically it’s very hard to prevent bots for something interactive like this so I understand.

Comment by i_Killed_Reddit at 28/03/2022 at 15:48 UTC

162 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Lets gooo

u/crowd__pleaser relevant username

Comment by Talks_To_Cats at 28/03/2022 at 18:07 UTC*

72 upvotes, 4 direct replies

If there's not a thumbnail of /r/place 2017's mural somewhere on /r/place 2022's mural, I'll be disappointed.

Comment by RSpudieD at 28/03/2022 at 15:17 UTC

174 upvotes, 4 direct replies

I can't believe it! This is awesome! If you were ever going to run a duplicate of a previous April Fool's event, I'm glad it's r/place!

Comment by Coolboypai at 28/03/2022 at 15:22 UTC

222 upvotes, 6 direct replies

Wow! Shoutout to u/powerlanguage who not only helped make the original place, but also wordle

Comment by [deleted] at 28/03/2022 at 15:17 UTC

124 upvotes, 3 direct replies

lets rick roll using the pixels

Comment by jasenzero1 at 28/03/2022 at 17:48 UTC

40 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Motion to henceforth refer to this as "replace".

Comment by umotex12 at 28/03/2022 at 15:11 UTC

89 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Good idea to make this comeback after some time. I think it's amazing preservation of current memes and culture, and could be organized once 5 years.

Comment by JewJewJubes at 28/03/2022 at 15:18 UTC

29 upvotes, 1 direct replies

So It Begins

Comment by cindyscrazy at 28/03/2022 at 17:56 UTC

29 upvotes, 5 direct replies

How many Ukrainian flags will be there this year? Or maybe the entire thing will be a Ukrainian flag with other stuff on top of it.

Comment by Forestl at 28/03/2022 at 15:26 UTC

50 upvotes, 4 direct replies

Fun fact: Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, made the original /r/place

Comment by Insanity10150 at 28/03/2022 at 15:18 UTC

86 upvotes, 3 direct replies

r/prequelmemes boutta write the tragedy of Darth Plageius the wise.

Comment by odysseyeet at 28/03/2022 at 15:31 UTC

24 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Fingers crossed they throw a twist into the mix - never thought Reddit were the ones to repeat 🤞 (Also please find a way to counter the inevitable swarm of bots for this time) Thanks! :)

Comment by JayandSilentB0b at 28/03/2022 at 15:23 UTC

78 upvotes, 4 direct replies

Inb4 Reddit makes the results of this "the first community developed NFT" or something.