• @ollieOP
      link
      English
      411 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        32
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        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.

        • @funnystuff97
          link
          English
          131 year ago

          I know I’m gonna sound like a total knob, but I didn’t even like the idea of a second place. Every April Fool’s event was unique and treasured-- Reddit mold, orangered vs periwinkle, Robin, even 2nd or circle for as bad as it was. Place 2017 (or was it 2016?) was obviously the best April Fool’s ever, and part of its treasure was its temporary nature. Doing place again in 2022 just felt wrong to me. Not that I didn’t enjoy it, but this time around it felt like it was almost undermining the first one, and with talks of doing place again the next year or every X years just felt so corporate and faceless among a new reddit that was running out of ideas.

          And now here we are. They’re not just running out of ideas, they’re running the site into the ground and dangling a carrot in front of users like, “hey, didn’t you all like place the last two times? Here it is yet again!”

          • @another_lemming
            link
            English
            81 year ago

            They’d probably discouraged their workers from new ideas since this one got into news and got copied by other sites. Super good metrics, need to stick with it.

            Them posting it now is just fucking a corpse to show user engagement for their IPO or hiding damage they’ve caused. Overall pathetic.

            • @funnystuff97
              link
              English
              21 year ago

              Yeah, and it’s not even subtle to boot. If they had done it this past April Fool’s day after making an API announcement at the beginning of the calendar year, they might have had a smidge of plausible deniability. But now, three weeks after the beginning of some of their most controversial changes yet, on a random mid-July week, it’s an incredibly obvious drive to boost engagement, from both the current userbase and perhaps even a boost from the users who left to return to place a “fuck /u/spez”.

              I don’t even understand how this gets greenlit. I mean, it’s definitely going to work, their engagement for the next week will be a YTD record without a doubt. But this just feels so mustache-twirlingly evil.

  • @rayrven
    link
    English
    601 year ago

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

  • vairfoley
    link
    fedilink
    English
    541 year ago

    Love all the “API” comments haha. I’ll be skipping this one, no thanks, reddit :)

    • @Master
      link
      English
      81 year ago

      I feel like this is a good time to dust off the reddit account and help make a giant advertisement for lemmy.

  • @Furbag
    link
    English
    45
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Rhaedas
    link
    fedilink
    391 year ago

    Can’t recapture the magic of the first /r/place. That was something else. Move on.

    • @BallShapedMan
      link
      111 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        91 year ago

        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.

        • @BallShapedMan
          link
          61 year ago

          Exactly, with bot accounts and so on. The biggest fun was following the communities that competed and how politics erupted. I kept looking to see if anyone wrote an article on the first one focused on the human condition but I never did find one.

  • @Master
    link
    English
    121 year ago

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

  • 👁️👄👁️
    link
    fedilink
    English
    101 year ago

    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

  • sab
    link
    fedilink
    71 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    71 year ago

    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.

  • Rayspekt
    link
    fedilink
    71 year ago

    Is it of any use if we fedizens raid the thing with a big “join the fediverse” or “fuck spez” banner or something?

    • pizza_rolls
      link
      fedilink
      151 year ago

      I’m sure that will be on there regardless. Less views is a bigger fuck you than any banner

      • Bipta
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        Less views won’t peel any users away and into the fediverse.

    • BlueKey
      link
      fedilink
      71 year ago

      I think the Fediverse logo or something like this would not hurt.

      • @kava
        link
        51 year ago

        I think the reddit migration is still fresh in a lot of people’s minds. Give it some time and it will die down. At least until reddit does the next inevitable stupid decision.

      • Rayspekt
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        Nah, I don’t use reddit since the shutdown but I do enjoy a little tomfoolery.