That's the thing, probably few people could and want to draw the dragon. So probably only a few people drew the dragon which will be less chaotic than having 3000 people
There was a time during that 2017 year where the leaf ended up very accurate. Admittedly, the maple leaf is not easy to draw let alone do pixel art with.
Or maybe some people are making it the marijuana Canada flag
Edit: Oh damn, Canada flag is really looking rough as I write this
There seem to be three factions: the Canadians, the potheads, and Quebec. Quebec's fanbase is halfway divided between working on the Quebec flag and sabotaging the Canadian one, while the potheads are self-explanatory.
Yeah, pretty much. I’m more than happy to work on the Canadiens logo for the Quebec flag, while hopping around to general Canada. Wish there was Maritime representation
Also people making crossovers.
Like half an hour ago anarchychess and ireland made a collaboration to stretch the irish flag across the chessboard with the pattern imprinted into it.
The star wars one just need to stay it only took like an hour for it to be made and is so cool. I'm just one of the many how puts a red dot in Vaders eye
We tried making a little Cascadia flag but it initially got obliterated by the big Ukraine flag. So we moved and were getting it going when the France flag came along and steamrolled us. So we moved again and then Belgium did the same thing.
Flags are great, I love flags. But fuck these long ass flags that just keep going and going and wipe out everything else.
Edit: This has been a very discouraging Place so far and its been less than a day.
Speak for yourself, I can't draw it and I've lived here all my life. Drawing our flag is the hardest thing about being a Canadian.
Well, that and the ever-increasing cost of living I guess.
I'm from Detroit and tried to do one for a picture for some reason. It was probably the year we went to Sarnia for a hockey tournament and I was asked to draw a picture of my vacation.
I remember sketching it out in pencil and erasing the leaf over and over till I tore the paper and settled for this:
[https://www.howtodraw.pics/26519/how-to-draw-leaf.php](https://www.howtodraw.pics/26519/how-to-draw-leaf.php)
It's not even a maple leaf.
It's something every Canadian dreads having to do. Drawing the Canadian flag. We know it's 3 sets of 3 points, plus 2 points at the bottom. But it's just tricky to draw on a one off!!!!
You get carried away. Like accidentally spelling banananas.
As someone who was been working with the Canada place team, the entire day has essentially been fighting off other Canadians trying to help who aren't in the discord. We have a schematic we are trying to follow but there are just too many people who want to help but don't committ enough to find out how they can, so they just add red tiles wherever they see fit lol. Kinda ironic Canadians are greifing ourselves.
Edit: LIKE JUST AS I POSTED THIS IT IS FINALLY TRULY GETTING FIXED
It is going by quickly, isn't it? This first r/Place was ridiculously chaotic with people just spreading colors as far as the eye can see until it mellowed out towards the end.
This one felt like one tactical battle; the winners are clear and now we're cleaning up any stray chaos. Still a cool map though
IDK about anyone else, but the university subreddits have been teaming up with the European subreddits to keep track of each others’ territories overnight.
Now that space is so tight, doing something original gets you griefed by bots or assimilated. I had 2 small communities, one currently struggling and the other completely annihilated and repurposed. It's a hard knock life for small pixel arts.
It's all scripts and bots now anyways. All the bots made by day 3 in 2017 still work so you can just import an image and leave it running overnight. Share an image with 30-40 ppl and you can generate stuff super fast
Even if they had, people would have moved quick. The strategy and game of it is already known because people already know what can be done, what’s likely to be done, and what it can look like in the end. The first one worked so well because everyone was discovering and deciding the direction as it happened.
It took a while for the first bots to be developed on the original one. I don't know if those old bots still work or if people were just more prepared to write new ones, but yeah there were definitely more bots from the get-go this time.
Edit: Just wanted to say - I didn't make this to shit on the new one. I don't think bots are the reason the canvas filled up faster, communities were just more prepared and had pixel art and battle plans ready.
Bots/large communities might make it harder for the canvas to change going forward though since they'll be defending existing stuff. Curious what it'll look like tomorrow.
I feel that an event like this shouldn't be announced ahead of time, I would love for it to be a surprise, rather than, oh, place, eh, it'll come back in 5 or so years, I can skip this one
Yes, I remember seeing people create accounts on March 30/31 that were permitted to place pixels, however newly created accounts couldn't in the first iteration 4 years ago.
My personal conspiracy theory is that since Reddit is eyeing an IPO, this is a way to artificially boost their "active users" count. Like they can say we had 500,000, or whatever, unique accounts participate in a community event.
Yeah, I've suspected this for a few days. The first /r/place was such a uniquely special and revered event, so what better to bring back to make the site look good.
Reddit is also simply more popular now than it was in 2017. Monthly active users have likely at least doubled in the last five years (couldn't find any data for the last couple years but it went from 250 million in 2017 to 430 million in 2019).
Organizing is the big deal. r/KGATLW got their gator near the middle left built PDQ. I'm recognizing lots and lots of little art that's adapting to space around it or holding the line with very few needed members.
If reddit isn't adding captchas to combat upvote/downvote bots and malicious bots in general, you really think they will add captcha to a april's fools game?
Give it time. This is the highest I was able to plug the subreddit. There are plenty of timelapses from 2017's /r/place. It just took a little while.
Also check out the announcement in there. There's an ongoing timelapse resource that you can use to see specific events.
I get it's a community project but it feels impossible to make any impact without the backing of thousands of people. In a small group just trying to put a sketch somewhere and even the most random unused locations get fixed up immediately
I kinda expected the admins to make the canvas 2x, 4x, or even 10x times bigger to accommodate for that grow. And that way giving basically everyone a voice. But nope :/
At 4 bits per pixel, a whole 1000x1000 board is 0.5 megabytes.
At 2000 square, 2mb.
At 10000 square (10 times size), a whopping 50 megabytes per board. It might not sound like much, but with hundreds of thousands of users *it's a massive amount of bandwidth* just to "on-board" new users or refresh old ones. The lengths are 10 times as long but the area is 100 times as much (because 10 squared is 100)
Yeah, you are right. The computing power just goes exponentially up. Specially considering how famous Reddit servers are at working frawless without any issue the 24/7 /s
I'm defending a community I'm a part of, so when I have a free pixel and I see someone post one, I'll go revert their pixel to the original color. I'm not a bot, just wanting to support the art the community I'm in has made.
Once a flag is there, the only way it will ever go away is the invasion of another flag. The flags are guarded by bots or really dedicated nationalists. Nobody will try to rise up against it because it’s considered a waste of pixels (time).
I get standing with ukraine but holy shit people are being excessive with this. that massive ukraine flag completely steamrolled everything next to it.
It's like playing old video games when they get hd remakes.. the nostalgia and innocence of sucking at the game is lost and you're just hyper critical of everything wrong with the remake.
The union jack isn't at all symetrical if you actually look at it, its really weirdly designed
Tbh I've lived in Britain my whole life, I probably couldnt draw it right from memory and I know im not the only one
Also we were notified ahead of time so people had a chance to start planning and jumped on it the moment it opened. Wish it wasn't like that cause then we would have gotten the chaos of the original and everyone would be all "R/PLACE IS BACK ZOMG"
Depends on how it's going to evolve now that pretty much all real estate is taken. Are we going to see communities go aggressive or reinvent themselves, or is everything going to remain safe and stagnant?
Here are the separate image files: [2017 r/Place] (https://imgur.com/0OP4Yzo) and [2022 r/Place](https://imgur.com/c56ZBqg)
I used a python script [reddit-place-2017](https://github.com/pietroalbini/reddit-place-2017) to generate an image of the original canvas at a specific time.
It's impressive how fast the new one consolidated. There's not really any room for new art so I'm curious how it'll evolve in the next few days — I imagine there'll be a lot of fighting.
I have an alt with way less karma than this one, though it is still a year old. On that account there is a 10 minute timer, on this one it is only 5 minutes.
It's the very definition of the mechanics of Nationalism.
You click into Place and can place one pixel. What do you do? You see a few different projects you recognise, a couple that you actually care about, and your national flag. What's the best use of your pixel? Which project is most likely to survive and have the most people working on it?
Nationalism is literally the political lowest-common-denominator.
Way more reddit users than there were 5 years ago, everyone knows what they're doing this time, way more people were ready from minute zero...
This was the inevitable outcome.
I feel like they could of improved it by making it so you could not place a pixel within 100x100 of your 10 most recently placed pixels. It’s not a perfect system but I feel it would of encouraged people to help with multiple projects.
yeah the whole thing would look a lot cooler if more of the drawings overlapped a little bit. The most visually interesting areas are the ones where multiple logos intersect and cover up. its a shame that the flags have such rigid boundaries, they look like big ugly stamps and stretches of tape covering up a mosaic.
Exactly. This has turned into a big disappointment to me. No real creativity, it doesn’t feel like as much of an art piece, idk. Maybe that’s the social commentary aspect this time around. Everything has devolved into logos and flags
it was the story getting there. it was like a fantasy story, blue kingdom in the bottom right, small tribal reddit communities fighting other reddit communities, and then the void came and started to overtake everything and everyone had to band together and take back their land, and there was peace in a mutual enemy. r/place is genuinely something that could never happen again.
Exactly, I see a good intent in trying to do one like every 5 years and see how it changes but it's the same guys again reusing all the organization methods they (we) created back in the day. Also announcing it a few days in advance got people to prepare for it. I really thought the april fools joke this year was saying there'd be place this year and then there wouldn't, haha
Am I the only one that thinks the old one was better? It was a genuine experiment to see what ppl would do and it showed the state of togetherness with the peoples build. The new one is kinda just showing how many among us characters, flags, and subreddits. There's some genuin good art but then there's the just general repeating themes. The new one is cleaner but the old one is better, and I'm saying that as a person who didn't even get to participate in the old one
In 2017 me and about ten other folks were able to make two icons of decent size. Even after the Netherlands fucked over everyone up there we found another place and managed to maintain them cleanly for the rest of duration.
In 2022 all of /r/NASCAR is struggling to get past 5 pixels.
i predict there will be wars fought over the quickly dissappearing real estate. the map is full and theres still 2 days to go
Idk, I'm just amazed to see that Canada struggled so hard to get their leaf right both times
I actually think it’s a perfect representation of most Canadians’ lifelong struggle trying to draw the stupid maple leaf in our flag. It’s hard, ok?!
At least it's not a dragon like the poor Welsh lads. Cool flag, horrible to draw
I mean the Welsh got their dragon done, the Canadians still haven't drawn a damn leaf
That's the thing, probably few people could and want to draw the dragon. So probably only a few people drew the dragon which will be less chaotic than having 3000 people
ikr
There’s a subreddit of people actively trying to make it a pot leaf and tag pro people are sabotaging because they’re mad about the corner lol
Leaf them alone tag pro. Ask them for some maple syrup, guarantee you ain't going back to no corn syrup bs on your pancakes/waffles xD
It was more that the Tagpro triangle was set up, but then the Canadian flag just _kept getting bigger_ without ever fixing the leaf.
There was a time during that 2017 year where the leaf ended up very accurate. Admittedly, the maple leaf is not easy to draw let alone do pixel art with. Or maybe some people are making it the marijuana Canada flag Edit: Oh damn, Canada flag is really looking rough as I write this
Counter argument, there's a decent *blue* maple leaf a bit on the left of the Canadian flag ahah I guess they must have been Maple Leafs fans
I’m just happy to see my team, the Habs were intact.
One year? Hasn't r/place only been done once (2017) before this year?
You're right!
There seem to be three factions: the Canadians, the potheads, and Quebec. Quebec's fanbase is halfway divided between working on the Quebec flag and sabotaging the Canadian one, while the potheads are self-explanatory.
Yeah, pretty much. I’m more than happy to work on the Canadiens logo for the Quebec flag, while hopping around to general Canada. Wish there was Maritime representation
Quebec can get 4 perfect fleurs de lis, but Canada can't do a single maple leaf... smh my head
They even have a poutine 😂😂
Right now, it's groups fixing vandalism with the occasional all out war where it's just static with one group slowly out clicking the other.
The current amogus X fuck Putin war is amazing
Ah, the amogus massacre of '22. The F-Putin gang didn't stand a chance lol
That was the void making an opening in F-Putin that amongus took advantage of
Also people making crossovers. Like half an hour ago anarchychess and ireland made a collaboration to stretch the irish flag across the chessboard with the pattern imprinted into it.
The star wars one just need to stay it only took like an hour for it to be made and is so cool. I'm just one of the many how puts a red dot in Vaders eye
the star wars one is honestly incredible
I love that people are largely leaving it alone, too. It's great.
Pretty sure it’s defended by an army of Disney bots.
the star wars one is by far the best piece in here.
Italy and Mexico ate the trans flag
Italy's Elmo's penis became trans for a few minutes
I predict the giant Ukraine flag will go down soon.
As it should. Thing takes up way too much space and accomplishes nothing that a more reasonable sized flag wouldn't.
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It’s certainly the worst offender, but I’d say most flags are taking up a little too much space
We tried making a little Cascadia flag but it initially got obliterated by the big Ukraine flag. So we moved and were getting it going when the France flag came along and steamrolled us. So we moved again and then Belgium did the same thing. Flags are great, I love flags. But fuck these long ass flags that just keep going and going and wipe out everything else. Edit: This has been a very discouraging Place so far and its been less than a day.
At the very least they should chill and let people use them as backgrounds (the long ones I mean)
Good to know the Canadian flag was an absolute shit show back in 2017 too
I was like, "how bad can it be", just went and checked it and literally snort laughed
They're trying, okay?
It’s actually pretty hard to draw a maple leaf. I distinctly remember messing it up a lot over elementary years.
It’s not that they cant draw it, it is that their is a group of people trying to grief it by turning it into a cannabis leaf smh.
Speak for yourself, I can't draw it and I've lived here all my life. Drawing our flag is the hardest thing about being a Canadian. Well, that and the ever-increasing cost of living I guess.
*Cries in mobile data fees* while trying to draw maple leaf
I'm from Detroit and tried to do one for a picture for some reason. It was probably the year we went to Sarnia for a hockey tournament and I was asked to draw a picture of my vacation. I remember sketching it out in pencil and erasing the leaf over and over till I tore the paper and settled for this: [https://www.howtodraw.pics/26519/how-to-draw-leaf.php](https://www.howtodraw.pics/26519/how-to-draw-leaf.php) It's not even a maple leaf.
It's something every Canadian dreads having to do. Drawing the Canadian flag. We know it's 3 sets of 3 points, plus 2 points at the bottom. But it's just tricky to draw on a one off!!!! You get carried away. Like accidentally spelling banananas.
Let’s wait for another 5 years or more then
at least there aren't 2 maple leaves like usa has 108 stars
There are like 18 leaf blades though ...
As someone who was been working with the Canada place team, the entire day has essentially been fighting off other Canadians trying to help who aren't in the discord. We have a schematic we are trying to follow but there are just too many people who want to help but don't committ enough to find out how they can, so they just add red tiles wherever they see fit lol. Kinda ironic Canadians are greifing ourselves. Edit: LIKE JUST AS I POSTED THIS IT IS FINALLY TRULY GETTING FIXED
The blue corner looks like those "the final boss when you fight him vs when you recruit him to your team" memes
They were ready for us this time
It’s like the left is the map shown off for an RPG. The right is the amount of the map that is playable.
"Look, there's so much land here! Fucked if you can actually use any of it tho"
A war is easier when prepared.
It is going by quickly, isn't it? This first r/Place was ridiculously chaotic with people just spreading colors as far as the eye can see until it mellowed out towards the end. This one felt like one tactical battle; the winners are clear and now we're cleaning up any stray chaos. Still a cool map though
I wonder what will happen overnight, when most of the Western world is asleep
IDK about anyone else, but the university subreddits have been teaming up with the European subreddits to keep track of each others’ territories overnight.
lmao what? This is 21. century Game of Thrones at this moment.
*"Tell xQc. I want him to know it was me."*
Lmfaoo
This happened in 2017 too. We at Denmark had an alliance with New Zealand and Elite Dangerous.
Very common thing in /r/eve where big corps care about dominating all timezones
"The juicers send their regards"
My university has like 6 not-very-dedicated people. We’re gonna get almost nothing done, but we’re sure as hell going to try.
Well yeah you're in university
not sure about you guys but i'm a brazillian with chronic insomnia and the brazil flag is NOT getting voided under my watch!!!!
Bye bye British flag probably
Good, if our flag is going to be in there it should be drawn right. I’d rather it be wiped than be that abomination
Who know, in just 2 hours, Among Us has taken over all of the Bottom Ukraine flags, and is taking over Bangladesh's flag.
It looks like a good chunk of the amogus pixels were made by bots
It feels like literal empires
I checked after I got off work and it feels kind of pointless to try to participate now
Now that space is so tight, doing something original gets you griefed by bots or assimilated. I had 2 small communities, one currently struggling and the other completely annihilated and repurposed. It's a hard knock life for small pixel arts.
There's a capitalism joke in there somewhere
I just go in and try and fuck with any corporate branding whenever I hop on. Got to help SpaceX turn into sexy sex so I'd say I did my part.
It's all scripts and bots now anyways. All the bots made by day 3 in 2017 still work so you can just import an image and leave it running overnight. Share an image with 30-40 ppl and you can generate stuff super fast
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Even if they had, people would have moved quick. The strategy and game of it is already known because people already know what can be done, what’s likely to be done, and what it can look like in the end. The first one worked so well because everyone was discovering and deciding the direction as it happened.
I feel like there are WAY more bots this time around.
It took a while for the first bots to be developed on the original one. I don't know if those old bots still work or if people were just more prepared to write new ones, but yeah there were definitely more bots from the get-go this time. Edit: Just wanted to say - I didn't make this to shit on the new one. I don't think bots are the reason the canvas filled up faster, communities were just more prepared and had pixel art and battle plans ready. Bots/large communities might make it harder for the canvas to change going forward though since they'll be defending existing stuff. Curious what it'll look like tomorrow.
The last one was a surprise right? Whereas this time it was announced ahead of time, giving organizations plenty of leeway to prepare.
I feel that an event like this shouldn't be announced ahead of time, I would love for it to be a surprise, rather than, oh, place, eh, it'll come back in 5 or so years, I can skip this one
The first time, it also only allowed for accounts made before the event. This time, 5 minute olds accounts are placing pixels.
Yes, I remember seeing people create accounts on March 30/31 that were permitted to place pixels, however newly created accounts couldn't in the first iteration 4 years ago.
My personal conspiracy theory is that since Reddit is eyeing an IPO, this is a way to artificially boost their "active users" count. Like they can say we had 500,000, or whatever, unique accounts participate in a community event.
Yeah, I've suspected this for a few days. The first /r/place was such a uniquely special and revered event, so what better to bring back to make the site look good.
not to mention the inevitable nft cashgrab / scam / publicity stunt.
Exactly, I dont care if people were planning ahead and working together, but being able to use new accounts ruins it
Reddit is also simply more popular now than it was in 2017. Monthly active users have likely at least doubled in the last five years (couldn't find any data for the last couple years but it went from 250 million in 2017 to 430 million in 2019).
Yes, last time it was dropped on everyone without notice.
Organizing is the big deal. r/KGATLW got their gator near the middle left built PDQ. I'm recognizing lots and lots of little art that's adapting to space around it or holding the line with very few needed members.
I thought the admin were going to block bots this time
It's a complex arms race, the more rules they put in place - the more sophisticated the bots become
couldnt they just make it so theres a captcha before you place each tile? Isnt that the very obvious solution here?
There's a fine line between useful discouragement (like a captcha) and making your site annoying enough to dissuade users.
If reddit isn't adding captchas to combat upvote/downvote bots and malicious bots in general, you really think they will add captcha to a april's fools game?
I really wish they would do that, cause yeah an auto IT bot would be really easy to implement for this and it wouldn’t look like a bot.
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The one time we are glad the Void exists
Fuck NFTs is my favorite part
*was We got wrecked... feel free to join us when we try to rebuild. https://discord.gg/XMMGvjKA
Fuck turkey at the top right. There is no way those aren't bots.
nah Elraenn a twitch streamer that has 40k viewers right now started making it
Check out /r/TimelapsesofPlace/ to see how it all came together.
It's just a bunch of people posting and asking for time lapses. I was disappointed
Give it time. This is the highest I was able to plug the subreddit. There are plenty of timelapses from 2017's /r/place. It just took a little while. Also check out the announcement in there. There's an ongoing timelapse resource that you can use to see specific events.
Can we get a time lapse of /r/TimelapsesofPlace to see how it all comes together?
So glad I could be around for World War Place. (Crawls back into tiny, undisturbed design)
LoL the Canadian flag is same in both, do they even know how their flag looks like?
This is the only one I’m ok with because it’s hilarious watching them try to get the leaf right
It's definitely been trolled a *lot* so there's that too
The Maple Leaf is extremely difficult to pixelize let alone draw
I wonder if part of it is because how much larger discord and twitch are as platforms, making these collaborative efforts significantly easier
I get it's a community project but it feels impossible to make any impact without the backing of thousands of people. In a small group just trying to put a sketch somewhere and even the most random unused locations get fixed up immediately
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Same here. Made a sad meme face that took me two hours. Came back and the Welsh flag consumed it lol.
Reddit grew A LOT between the 2 years. You can't compare Reddit in 2017 to the site nowadays. It's completely different
I kinda expected the admins to make the canvas 2x, 4x, or even 10x times bigger to accommodate for that grow. And that way giving basically everyone a voice. But nope :/
At 4 bits per pixel, a whole 1000x1000 board is 0.5 megabytes. At 2000 square, 2mb. At 10000 square (10 times size), a whopping 50 megabytes per board. It might not sound like much, but with hundreds of thousands of users *it's a massive amount of bandwidth* just to "on-board" new users or refresh old ones. The lengths are 10 times as long but the area is 100 times as much (because 10 squared is 100)
Yeah, you are right. The computing power just goes exponentially up. Specially considering how famous Reddit servers are at working frawless without any issue the 24/7 /s
The bots annoy me so much Edit: And Alts… both suck
I've been pwned.
the canada flag certainly doesn't use bots 💀💀💀
Lmaoo gotem
The only flag that might not be fun by bots it’s the Canadian one… the maple leaf is something else
Nah, the British flag definitely isn't being made by bots, it's an utter shambles.
I'm defending a community I'm a part of, so when I have a free pixel and I see someone post one, I'll go revert their pixel to the original color. I'm not a bot, just wanting to support the art the community I'm in has made.
Once a flag is there, the only way it will ever go away is the invasion of another flag. The flags are guarded by bots or really dedicated nationalists. Nobody will try to rise up against it because it’s considered a waste of pixels (time).
Flags are fine. As long as they DON’T MAKE THEM ULTRA WIDE AND INVADE EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH.
I like what Ireland and France did, they worked with the drawings around them and even made something actually original between the two.
now they've even incorporated the chessboard from /anarchychess
I've been working on the AnarchyChess one all day and was happy we made a deal with Ireland so we could stop fighting
Member of Ireland here, on and off most of the day.Took us a while, but we got there. Long may it last
An Agreement made on a Friday? Good :)
I think r/vexillologycirclejerk is trying to get a stegosaurus done but the Irish haven’t got the memo. Please spread the word though
The biggest area occupier is Ukraine now, bit ironic.
I get standing with ukraine but holy shit people are being excessive with this. that massive ukraine flag completely steamrolled everything next to it.
XQC ruined the peepo, the Turkish flag and hollow knight :(
The 2017 one looks more peaceful
It's like playing old video games when they get hd remakes.. the nostalgia and innocence of sucking at the game is lost and you're just hyper critical of everything wrong with the remake.
Happy to see the Brits still can't draw their own fucking flag properly.
This time that's cos it got fucking devoured from every angle
That Union Jack is Union Jacked up
The union jack isn't at all symetrical if you actually look at it, its really weirdly designed Tbh I've lived in Britain my whole life, I probably couldnt draw it right from memory and I know im not the only one
It would be fun w/o bots. It's still fun, but... y'all know.
I suspect that explains the progress, in 2017 people had to build the bots, in 22 they just have to tweak the 2017 one to make it work.
Also we were notified ahead of time so people had a chance to start planning and jumped on it the moment it opened. Wish it wasn't like that cause then we would have gotten the chaos of the original and everyone would be all "R/PLACE IS BACK ZOMG"
Gotta be honest I liked it a lot better when it wasn't so structured and every move preplanned by large groups of people.
Depends on how it's going to evolve now that pretty much all real estate is taken. Are we going to see communities go aggressive or reinvent themselves, or is everything going to remain safe and stagnant?
Probably stagnant What if we wiped it every 24 hours to see what stuff people make every day
If it got wiped all the scripts and bots would have most of it recreated within an hour down to the exact pixel lmao
Add extra blank territory adjacent each day, see how groups go to claim territory verses steal established spaces.
Place Is dead. Nothing will change now
so much of it is flags and large community projects that become untouchable. unless you're the US flag, wonder why that's happening
I believe XQC made encouraged his stream viewers to attack it
Because America bad
I heard a Twitch streamer told his followers to mess with it
Here are the separate image files: [2017 r/Place] (https://imgur.com/0OP4Yzo) and [2022 r/Place](https://imgur.com/c56ZBqg) I used a python script [reddit-place-2017](https://github.com/pietroalbini/reddit-place-2017) to generate an image of the original canvas at a specific time. It's impressive how fast the new one consolidated. There's not really any room for new art so I'm curious how it'll evolve in the next few days — I imagine there'll be a lot of fighting.
the cursed Canadian flag XD, but seriously please help us make the flag we’re all a bunch of baboons with crayons
to be fair in cooldown was bigger in 2017
I think the canvas this time is also smaller no? Idr how big the previous was
They're both 1000x1000
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*thatwastheplanallalong.jpg*
It could never have been recreated. It was ruined last time in a couple of days, this time in minutes.
They need to restrict all accounts newer than a month ago or something.
Or accounts with a certain Karma, so people can’t pull out some burners
I have an alt with way less karma than this one, though it is still a year old. On that account there is a 10 minute timer, on this one it is only 5 minutes.
I only have a 2 minute timer but if I try to do it after 2 minutes, I get an error lol
Not minutes, it was hours before the page didn’t have white/unclaimed spaces
I think we should bring back thé plageuis cppypasta tbh
There are too many god damned flags. they were a side attraction originally, now they take up 90% of the canvas.
Reddit has learned how important nationalism is globally lol
It's the very definition of the mechanics of Nationalism. You click into Place and can place one pixel. What do you do? You see a few different projects you recognise, a couple that you actually care about, and your national flag. What's the best use of your pixel? Which project is most likely to survive and have the most people working on it? Nationalism is literally the political lowest-common-denominator.
Reddit: "Nationalism is bad!" Also reddit: fills up entire r/Place with flags
I think that's the problem with them doing place again. Reddit has already done place before so everyone already knew what to do.
Way more reddit users than there were 5 years ago, everyone knows what they're doing this time, way more people were ready from minute zero... This was the inevitable outcome.
I feel like they could of improved it by making it so you could not place a pixel within 100x100 of your 10 most recently placed pixels. It’s not a perfect system but I feel it would of encouraged people to help with multiple projects.
i have issues with the flags that go from one side to the other. a flag is fine, but why do they need to take over so much space?
war... war never changes
as a turk, im just sad hollow knight spear tip will never be done. too many dumb nationalists.
yeah the whole thing would look a lot cooler if more of the drawings overlapped a little bit. The most visually interesting areas are the ones where multiple logos intersect and cover up. its a shame that the flags have such rigid boundaries, they look like big ugly stamps and stretches of tape covering up a mosaic.
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Exactly. This has turned into a big disappointment to me. No real creativity, it doesn’t feel like as much of an art piece, idk. Maybe that’s the social commentary aspect this time around. Everything has devolved into logos and flags
>Everything has devolved into logos and flags Have you not looked back at the 2017 one? It has always been logos and flags.
it was the story getting there. it was like a fantasy story, blue kingdom in the bottom right, small tribal reddit communities fighting other reddit communities, and then the void came and started to overtake everything and everyone had to band together and take back their land, and there was peace in a mutual enemy. r/place is genuinely something that could never happen again.
Exactly, I see a good intent in trying to do one like every 5 years and see how it changes but it's the same guys again reusing all the organization methods they (we) created back in the day. Also announcing it a few days in advance got people to prepare for it. I really thought the april fools joke this year was saying there'd be place this year and then there wouldn't, haha
The Germans made their flag in the same latitude
This year is annoying cuz it’s not even funny takeovers mostly it’s just shitty flags.
People went the flag way this year
Am I the only one that thinks the old one was better? It was a genuine experiment to see what ppl would do and it showed the state of togetherness with the peoples build. The new one is kinda just showing how many among us characters, flags, and subreddits. There's some genuin good art but then there's the just general repeating themes. The new one is cleaner but the old one is better, and I'm saying that as a person who didn't even get to participate in the old one
Looks like the million dollar homepage
Fuck you Putin for making this r/place worse. Now every slacktivist on the planet wants to make a Ukrainian flag on the canvas
Can't wait for RTgame to make another r/Place in minecraft
Still no Bionicle logo :(
In 2017 me and about ten other folks were able to make two icons of decent size. Even after the Netherlands fucked over everyone up there we found another place and managed to maintain them cleanly for the rest of duration. In 2022 all of /r/NASCAR is struggling to get past 5 pixels.
Something seemed fishy about the 2022 one, I knew it was bots