r/place is back...

"Oh shit user engagement is dropping, quick do something interesting!"
- literally lol, the idea of doing a r/place every year was already really unpopular as there was little cultural change. I wonder if they're going to do anything unique compared to last time.
  
  Yeah. The original place was super unique because it was a brand new idea dropped with no warning. That was a one time community development. Even the second Place revival was only marginally better, but a third? Really can't repeat that magic especially when its such an obvious user grab.

Just an attempt to get people back to the platform, but those who left know better imo.

Love all the "API" comments haha. I'll be skipping this one, no thanks, reddit :)
- I feel like this is a good time to dust off the reddit account and help make a giant advertisement for lemmy.

Reeks of desperation. Thankfully, it looks like everybody knows what to do, although I think there will be the very natural counter-protest where contrarian redditors will say "Can't we just paint flags without complaining about the API or Spez?". We'll have to wait and see I guess.

Can't recapture the magic of the first /r/place. That was something else. Move on.
- It really was. The second we neat but like you said the magic was gone and people clearly knew how to game it by then.
  
  The first one grab everyone by surprise and automation tools took a couple of days to dominate, the second one it just took a couple of hours to update those tools. This time? Pretty sure that tools are going to work from the get go.

A modest proposal. Which Lemmy server can finish with a prominent place in the r/place final image!

can't wait to see all the bots force an image into it
the brightside is that it'll be a great place for the protestors to revolt

This wasn't fun after it got botted immediatelh anyway. Beyond reddit sucking now

It's fantastic that whoever designed this animation managed to get away with presenting Reddit as a freaking dumpster fire. You'd think someone in the higher ranks would request a change of iconography.

10000% a play to get people to install their mobile app. They don’t care that it’s just so they can contribute one pixel to a giant “fuck spez” banner, all that matters is their app metrics will grow a bit.

They could spend time and resources improving their site experience for blind users, moderation tools, or improving their shoddy mobile app, but instead they do r/place.
- It will keep the plebs happy while cleaning house of those pesky moderators.
  
  Well that's going to backfire spectacularly then. The plebs are going to cover their stupid wall with Fuck Spez, API, and Apollo icons.

Wow, millions of ~~bots~~ people can fight over which national flag or corporate logo gets to be the biggest.
Might as well just link to a big png of the Ukrainian flag and call it a day rather than wasting everyone's time.

They're so desperate. Wonder when they're going to relaunch other turds like RPAN

There will for sure be protests against u/spez and the API changes. What are they thinking lol
This doesn’t even make any sense financially.

Never used it because I only ever used rif and res with old.reddit. Certainly not missing out.

I suppose giving them a public billboard to voice their dissatisfaction is one way to tempt people back onto the site.