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Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time::Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when user dissatisfaction with the platform is very high.

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[-] Geek_King@lemmy.world 219 points 1 year ago

That doesn't seem like a prudent idea.

"Hmm, a lot of people are incredibly unhappy with decisions we've made in relation to Reddit, we should give them a highly visible visual way to express themselves and see what happens!"

[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Place was always very popular, it makes sense to roll it out whenever publicity tanks.

[-] Conowelle@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

But it’s just the randomness of it being release on a random july Wednesday just over a year after releasing the last one. Idk if people will care as much about this one

[-] EliasChao@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

According to the article, they kept pushing it back because, uhm, reasons.

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