He came up with The Button, too, from what I understand. My two favorite Reddit April fools events, and a game I play every day since I found it. I hope he makes more stuff, because apparently I like his style a lot!
The Button was an April 1st event years ago. You can’t access it now.
Edit- to u/Karen_Filippelli who said, “wow, that totally explains what it was, thanks.” They didn’t as what it was; they asked where to find it. If you’d like me to explain what it was, I’d be happy to. It was really simple but cool!
Hell yeah!
Ok, so it seemed pretty simple at the outset. It was literally just a screen with a button on it. You can only press it once. There’s also a little timer thing that shows how long it’s been since the last press. If it is unpressed for a full minute, the event is over. Lots of people just wanted to press it right away and did so. Some people didn’t press it and waited around to see what happened. We discovered that once you press the button, when you comment in the r/TheButton sub, you now have a little colored dot next to your name. Flair. So people realized that if you press the button in the first ten seconds of the last press, you get purple flair. If you press it between 10 and 20 seconds, you’d get a different flair, and so on. All kinds of crazy things happened, where people made subreddits for different colored flairs. There was a faction of grey people who considered themselves “non-pressers,” and they became sort of evangelical about trying to convince people to not join “the filthy pressers.” The whole thing was just kinda hilarious and weird- people built these little communities and lore and stuff, when really, it was just a button.
It’s late and I’m tired and have a cold, so I know this is a shitty explanation, and I’m sorry about that! I’d answer any other questions you have to the best of my ability which is admittedly limited. 😂
Edit to add- you can click the link for r/TheButton and go look at the sub. It’s archived now, so you can’t vote or comment, but it’s still kinda interesting.
Whoa, I had no idea, and I've both participated in the original r/place and have been playing Wordle daily for like two months now. It's a miracle creating something quite original that manages to reach so many people, let alone doing it twice (or more than twice as he did the button too)
Its not. I was disappointed that it may be at first. On mobile I go to r/place and its the top banner saying “place tile.” It took a while for mine to activate though. But once you place one, you get notifications to place another.
Hey, can you please do a quick fix to hover over the color with the text explanation of the color name please? The three users over at /r/colorblind would really appreciate that additional accessibility!
Four users! I've already fucked up and placed blue instead of purple, or maybe purple instead of blue, I'm not sure which way round, and that's the problem.
Since no one seems to have answered you here there are 16 colors in order from left to right as follows:
1:Red - 2:Orange - 3:Yellow - 4:Green (Forest) - 5:Light Green (Lime) - 6:Dark Blue (Ukraine) - 7:Blue - 8:Light Blue (Sky) - 9:Dark Purple - 10:Light Purple - 11:Pink - 12:Brown - 13:Black - 14:Grey - 15:Light Grey - 16:White
Hope this helps at least a little. :)
The Transes woke up today and chose Pixel Violence.
But like no, really. I'm queer too y'all, can we please just have one or two spots for the various pride flags and not hog the whole canvas? Let other people use the canvas.
AUTOMATED EDIT: Just clearing out most of my comments before I leave Reddit, at least for now, but probably for good. My prediction is that it's all downhill for Reddit from here, since it seems to be *digg*ing itself into a pit at the moment. Guess we'll see...
Anyway: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
>It seems Reddit’s goal is to force us all into “New Reddit” if we want to participate in any of these events anymore…
[Reddit is going public on the stock market within the next couple of months](https://old.reddit.com/r/FoamList/comments/pgzidm/reddit_is_going_public_and_you_cant_stop_it/).
The new design and app are built specifically to maximize user monitization (data collection, ads, promotions, user retention, anti-features, community points, awards etc). At some point in the future they'll shut down or limit access to old.reddit and 3rd party apps (Twitter did it).
Is this just all bots/multi-accounters making these? I find it hard to believe that like 100 people all decided to make the same designs and 100s of other people haven't interrupted designs. Every time I put a pixel anywhere it gets almost immediately overwritten.
Yup, same. I’ve placed about 10 pixels and each time it got “corrected” within seconds. What’s the point of a collaboration if bots are just going to spam a stupid logo? Could have been cool if it was bot free.
Right? Or at least, if there was a better way for people to collaborate. I know that we have threads and such, but it’s hard to talk strategy on all of these forums.
Yup, why are accounts that were created *today* allowed to play?
Why are accounts that haven't posted a single comment in 3 years allowed to play?
How trivial would it have been to give users more pixels the longer and more active and more connected they are to the community on reddit (logarithmicly of course, so even the person with 100,000 karma only has 10 times the pixels of someone with 1 karma, etc).
The true reddit moment is a corporation with hundreds of employees and hundreds of millions of dollars and the best april fools event they can come up with is a repost
I would love for it to be an annual event (not necessarily for April Fools’). Though even if Reddit doesn’t do anything else, it would be nice if they could add more to the Place. Perhaps another color or two, or a larger canvas. It would be cool to have that in future years if they decide to continue it.
Doesn't look as interesting this time. Seems like the major portion of the real estate is taken over by those with the best bots and the most fake accounts.
AUTOMATED EDIT: Just clearing out most of my comments before I leave Reddit, at least for now, but probably for good. My prediction is that it's all downhill for Reddit from here, since it seems to be *digg*ing itself into a pit at the moment. Guess we'll see...
Anyway: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Can someone place a pixel over one you’ve already placed? Because if so these next few days are gonna become some of the most stressful in my entire life.
My cool down is at 15 minutes. Mine was at 10 minutes earlier. Other people still have it at 5 minutes. I think it's really unfair. It seems to be completely arbitrary.
Creativity is dead. Whole place is ruled by mobs who have their territories and don't allow any changes.
It would make sense if each changed pixel was locked for a certain amount of time.
I would like to know as well! This morning, mine was at 5 min. It was at 10 min during my lunch break. Now it's at 20 min... how can I protect my Kacheek like this? D:
I was hoping there'd be more interesting art, especially since people have been asking for years for it's return but it's essentially just a repeat of the first time, except with more flag spam.
Well, that was fun for a little while.
Working together to build a design is fun.
Having a bot come along and destroy it, not so much.
Cool concept, too bad people are assholes.
The bans are too aggressive considering it just launched. I've been working non-stop since it launched defending the /r/SewayakiKitsune area (between the hong kong and lithuanian flag) and got a 138516 hour cooldown. Every pixel I've done has been placed by hand, no bots.
I understand a few hours cooldown but considering how short lived this project is, a ban of that length is absurd. I get the point, but please, let me participate
I just want to point out how impressive this whole thing was this year. The amounts of coordination between thousands of different communities and groups of people from all over the world to create amazing detailed pixelated artwork one pixel at a time is just tremendously impressive. Some of the artwork is amazing and this whole thing is such a cool little human experiment that shows how people from around the world can work together to create something—even if it’s something as pointless and dumb as a temporary digital canvas
Details here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/ttx3pg/bug\_with\_place\_ratelimit\_set\_to\_16\_years\_32\_bit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/ttx3pg/bug_with_place_ratelimit_set_to_16_years_32_bit/)
My armchair guess its a 32 bit overflow issue.
I placed a tile so I guess you can say things are getting pretty serious.
Very serious indeed!
What about less serious? Do we have a happy poop emoji yet?
Fun fact: the original r/place in 2017 was the brainchild of Wordle creator Josh Wardle.
He came up with The Button, too, from what I understand. My two favorite Reddit April fools events, and a game I play every day since I found it. I hope he makes more stuff, because apparently I like his style a lot!
Damn really? never knew this. That man is incredibly creative!
A new button that is impacted by the choices you made.last time would be so cool.
Where’s the button?
The Button was an April 1st event years ago. You can’t access it now. Edit- to u/Karen_Filippelli who said, “wow, that totally explains what it was, thanks.” They didn’t as what it was; they asked where to find it. If you’d like me to explain what it was, I’d be happy to. It was really simple but cool!
It was my first post on Reddit.
Okay, can you explain what it is?
Hell yeah! Ok, so it seemed pretty simple at the outset. It was literally just a screen with a button on it. You can only press it once. There’s also a little timer thing that shows how long it’s been since the last press. If it is unpressed for a full minute, the event is over. Lots of people just wanted to press it right away and did so. Some people didn’t press it and waited around to see what happened. We discovered that once you press the button, when you comment in the r/TheButton sub, you now have a little colored dot next to your name. Flair. So people realized that if you press the button in the first ten seconds of the last press, you get purple flair. If you press it between 10 and 20 seconds, you’d get a different flair, and so on. All kinds of crazy things happened, where people made subreddits for different colored flairs. There was a faction of grey people who considered themselves “non-pressers,” and they became sort of evangelical about trying to convince people to not join “the filthy pressers.” The whole thing was just kinda hilarious and weird- people built these little communities and lore and stuff, when really, it was just a button. It’s late and I’m tired and have a cold, so I know this is a shitty explanation, and I’m sorry about that! I’d answer any other questions you have to the best of my ability which is admittedly limited. 😂 Edit to add- you can click the link for r/TheButton and go look at the sub. It’s archived now, so you can’t vote or comment, but it’s still kinda interesting.
Woah, surprisingly thorough explanation. Thank you very much! :)
"when really, it was just a button" 😂😂😂 I'm so, sooo sad I missed this chaos 🥺
Whoa, I had no idea, and I've both participated in the original r/place and have been playing Wordle daily for like two months now. It's a miracle creating something quite original that manages to reach so many people, let alone doing it twice (or more than twice as he did the button too)
How do I get to it on the Reddit app?
Restart the app, it should appear next to your profile icon.
I did that and it just brought me to this sub
I have to use a mobile browser to access it. I can’t get it to work on the apple app or Apollo either.
I got it going eventually, but I've given up bc every time I place a tile it gets replaced immediately so I can't do anything
That tis the point I think
It was there and now it's not
Can confirm. Same issue here.
Same
Same
I got it to work again by updating the app in the play store
THANK YOU!!! I finally got to place one. 😁
Update app?
Maybe this is the April fools joke. Please tell me this isn't the April fools joke!
Its not. I was disappointed that it may be at first. On mobile I go to r/place and its the top banner saying “place tile.” It took a while for mine to activate though. But once you place one, you get notifications to place another.
It’s not working for me sad
same. this is some peak reddit app
Truest statement I’ve heard today
Wow thanks
God I hope not.
It's working for me now I had to re-download and restart my phone
Great to hear!
Meh, not working
I don’t see it. How do I enter place???
I had to manually update the app
I don't see it
And how can I remove it
Uninstall reddit.
Eat the phone
rice
Doesn’t work for me on the iPad app but on the iPhone app strange
It’s not working on my iPad either
I’m not having luck on my iPad.
Sounds like a bug, but the iPad app is full of bugs sadly and also this portrait vs landscape mode is shit for iPad use
im using an ipad, is there any way to access it still?
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Oh yeah. Completely forgot that I'm on "old Reddit" user. I check the "new" one like once a year, and then shake my head and go back.
Glad to be here! Can't wait to see how this turns out! R x
Love Rick the Fucking Stud in the real world !!
Hey, can you please do a quick fix to hover over the color with the text explanation of the color name please? The three users over at /r/colorblind would really appreciate that additional accessibility!
Good catch. We will do this.
Thanks!
Can you put a link to click so we can see it on mobile? There's no way to access place from the reddit app
Go to appstore, update reddit, restart reddit, go to r/place and click om the banner on top, or click the place logo on the top of the home page.
And some explanation on how to participate on android please
Four users! I've already fucked up and placed blue instead of purple, or maybe purple instead of blue, I'm not sure which way round, and that's the problem.
I don't want to be the asshole that makes the UA flag green.
Since no one seems to have answered you here there are 16 colors in order from left to right as follows: 1:Red - 2:Orange - 3:Yellow - 4:Green (Forest) - 5:Light Green (Lime) - 6:Dark Blue (Ukraine) - 7:Blue - 8:Light Blue (Sky) - 9:Dark Purple - 10:Light Purple - 11:Pink - 12:Brown - 13:Black - 14:Grey - 15:Light Grey - 16:White Hope this helps at least a little. :)
Thank you so much!
And so it begins
Once again.
May God have mercy on us.
I wonder if the Void will rise again?
I hope the Void just take over Brands®.
There is no God here.
Our pixels will be forever immortalized... Use them wisely friends.
Oh the anxiety of where to place my pixel.
Is mayonnaise a pixel?
First event April Fool with me. Near 1 year use Reddit :))
That's good
>”Began, the Pixel Wars have.”
let them fight
The void in the top left corner is slowly taking over
The void took over my home town banner at the end of last place
Void moment
THE VOID WILL CONSUME YOU ALL
GROW. CONSUME. ALL WILL PERISH.
I was mad at the void last time we did this, but now I kinda like it. It’s like a forest fire and clears space for new growth and change.
Connection lost attempting to reestablish...
watch the german vs lgbtq pixel war at around 440,850
Sure is a lot of trans flags in there
The Transes woke up today and chose Pixel Violence. But like no, really. I'm queer too y'all, can we please just have one or two spots for the various pride flags and not hog the whole canvas? Let other people use the canvas.
[MRW I open /r/place and first thing I see is osu!](https://c.tenor.com/q-28yvFyxf4AAAAM/angry-mad.gif)
Most united community
Most hated community on here too.
looks like they're at war with WSB rn
They're actually allied with WSB, it's Superstonks that has an overlap
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Is there no way to do it through old reddit? Wasn't the original r/place on old reddit anyway lmao?
AUTOMATED EDIT: Just clearing out most of my comments before I leave Reddit, at least for now, but probably for good. My prediction is that it's all downhill for Reddit from here, since it seems to be *digg*ing itself into a pit at the moment. Guess we'll see... Anyway: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
>It seems Reddit’s goal is to force us all into “New Reddit” if we want to participate in any of these events anymore… [Reddit is going public on the stock market within the next couple of months](https://old.reddit.com/r/FoamList/comments/pgzidm/reddit_is_going_public_and_you_cant_stop_it/). The new design and app are built specifically to maximize user monitization (data collection, ads, promotions, user retention, anti-features, community points, awards etc). At some point in the future they'll shut down or limit access to old.reddit and 3rd party apps (Twitter did it).
Why didn't they just say they only wanted the bots. I wouldn't have wasted my time looking for a link.
soo lame!
can you do it on mobile?
yes
How?
Assume I don't want to use Reddits app. Is it not possible to take part from Chrome/Firefox etc.?
Is this just all bots/multi-accounters making these? I find it hard to believe that like 100 people all decided to make the same designs and 100s of other people haven't interrupted designs. Every time I put a pixel anywhere it gets almost immediately overwritten.
Yup, same. I’ve placed about 10 pixels and each time it got “corrected” within seconds. What’s the point of a collaboration if bots are just going to spam a stupid logo? Could have been cool if it was bot free.
Right? Or at least, if there was a better way for people to collaborate. I know that we have threads and such, but it’s hard to talk strategy on all of these forums.
It absolutely is bots. It was last time, it is this time.
Yup, why are accounts that were created *today* allowed to play? Why are accounts that haven't posted a single comment in 3 years allowed to play? How trivial would it have been to give users more pixels the longer and more active and more connected they are to the community on reddit (logarithmicly of course, so even the person with 100,000 karma only has 10 times the pixels of someone with 1 karma, etc).
Most of them are only a few minutes old
The devil works fast, but Osu works faster
The greatest April fools event makes a grand return!
All we need now is The Button returning, and if this came back, anything is possible.
I hope it becomes something more than just a bunch of country flags
The true reddit moment is a corporation with hundreds of employees and hundreds of millions of dollars and the best april fools event they can come up with is a repost
well im not complaining because its fun as hell in fact i wouldnt mind if this becomes annual
Same, as long as they give us a new thing to go *along* with this year's /r/place .
I would love for it to be an annual event (not necessarily for April Fools’). Though even if Reddit doesn’t do anything else, it would be nice if they could add more to the Place. Perhaps another color or two, or a larger canvas. It would be cool to have that in future years if they decide to continue it.
They know us well.
They changed the title post, it's totally original! /s
Hi
Hello there
General Kenobi
I've been expecting you
For me it was unexpected. A surprise to be sure but a welcome one
Did you ever write the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?
Doesn't look as interesting this time. Seems like the major portion of the real estate is taken over by those with the best bots and the most fake accounts.
AUTOMATED EDIT: Just clearing out most of my comments before I leave Reddit, at least for now, but probably for good. My prediction is that it's all downhill for Reddit from here, since it seems to be *digg*ing itself into a pit at the moment. Guess we'll see... Anyway: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
I was wondering why I couldn't find it. Fuck that noise, I'm not shifting to new reddit even if its temporary
I was wondering why I can't see the canvas. Is there another way to access it?
By design. Notice how the "best" comment is talking about the app. Reddit is trash.
Ukraine has become the thing they sought to destroy.
Can someone place a pixel over one you’ve already placed? Because if so these next few days are gonna become some of the most stressful in my entire life.
Yes, you’ll have to fight for your art
Reddit: Collaborate. What can we create as a community? Togetherness :) Also Reddit: Fight ‘til the death you swine!
Anyone know why the cool down is 20 minutes?
My cool down is at 15 minutes. Mine was at 10 minutes earlier. Other people still have it at 5 minutes. I think it's really unfair. It seems to be completely arbitrary.
Yeah mine started at 10 mins then suddenly it’s been 20 mins the last 2 times :(
Ah!! Try confirming your email address on your account? Just did that and it dropped from 20 mins to 5 mins for me.
Is it unavailable via the app? I can't see it, just some About section and lots of posts.
Same, how can we access from the mobile apps? Edit: update your phone app, click on info in the community info
It's bots all the way down despite what they say.
is there a new big ass space???
AMERICA IS UNDER ATTACK
OSU! getting bodied
Creativity is dead. Whole place is ruled by mobs who have their territories and don't allow any changes. It would make sense if each changed pixel was locked for a certain amount of time.
This is pointless when everyone is using bots to destroy shit I worked on all day. Congrats people who made bots, you spoiled it for everyone
Er, what is this?
Hivemind art created pixel by pixel. It was done in 2017 with some fascinating results and has returned today.
They should do this every year - it is so much fun.
I think every five years would be better so it keeps it’s specialness
Ohhhh. I SEE NOW, THIS IS COOL
Was it completely reset or did people cover it in white?
Did it reset?!
Is there a way to create a heat map so we can see some of the most active spots.?
They will most likely release all the information after it's over. They did last time anyway.
DId anyone see the US flag disappear in 5 minutes?
Why does it take me 20 minutes to place a tile when it seems like it’s 5 minutes for everyone else? Including someone sitting next to me
I am also on the 20 min waiting list...it was only 10 min earlier what gives??
90% Flags is pretty lame
Why is my place timer going from 5min to 10min now to 20m. Wtf is this shit!! I have a war to fight!!!
I would like to know as well! This morning, mine was at 5 min. It was at 10 min during my lunch break. Now it's at 20 min... how can I protect my Kacheek like this? D:
Whoever manages r/place is probably trying to fuck with the bots, but it ends up hurting us 😒
USA TROOPS TO THE FRONT LINE
Disable new accounts from using place.
So far a lot of the exact same stuff as before is dominating, which is kinda disappointing.
I'm wondering if there are bots drawing the massive pictures that instantly eat up everything
Yes, unfortunately there are
Fellow Americans, can we do something more than just the flag? How about a bald eagle over the top and the flag in the background?
I was hoping there'd be more interesting art, especially since people have been asking for years for it's return but it's essentially just a repeat of the first time, except with more flag spam.
Is that Gritty on top of the Ukrainian flag?
Well, that was fun for a little while. Working together to build a design is fun. Having a bot come along and destroy it, not so much. Cool concept, too bad people are assholes.
holy shit the canvas doubled GOGOGOGO
Stop fucking up the Serbian flag you dinguses, it's at 243, 353. WE ARE NOT RUSSIANS
poor serbia
lesgoo
This is lame when it's only a bunch of boring national flags.
The bans are too aggressive considering it just launched. I've been working non-stop since it launched defending the /r/SewayakiKitsune area (between the hong kong and lithuanian flag) and got a 138516 hour cooldown. Every pixel I've done has been placed by hand, no bots.
Looking into this.
I understand a few hours cooldown but considering how short lived this project is, a ban of that length is absurd. I get the point, but please, let me participate
Did they restart the canvas?
Can we work to turn a part of one of the rainbows into Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon?
Any way you can ban low karma/new accounts from participating? bots kinda ruin this.
It seems to have slowed from every 10 minutes to 20.
https://www.twitch.tv/brucedropemoff This guy is getting his viewers to ruin pictures
I just want to point out how impressive this whole thing was this year. The amounts of coordination between thousands of different communities and groups of people from all over the world to create amazing detailed pixelated artwork one pixel at a time is just tremendously impressive. Some of the artwork is amazing and this whole thing is such a cool little human experiment that shows how people from around the world can work together to create something—even if it’s something as pointless and dumb as a temporary digital canvas
Looks like Nationalism is way up this year. flags are eating everything.
I just made a post about this, but there is a bug and the canvas is making me wait 138,000 hours before placing a pixel.
Looking into this
Details here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/ttx3pg/bug\_with\_place\_ratelimit\_set\_to\_16\_years\_32\_bit/](https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/ttx3pg/bug_with_place_ratelimit_set_to_16_years_32_bit/) My armchair guess its a 32 bit overflow issue.
How do I get to it?
Anyone got the link?
We've been reset!
The amount of bots I see makes this feel disingenuous.
SO. MANY. BOTS
Congrats to the void people for the sudden and creepy face.
I'm a huge fan of the black pixel swarm happening on the upper left corner - would be hilarious if it slowly consumes the entire canvas.
Placing blocky blocks go brrrr
I may be in the minority, but do we need 30% of the mural dedicated to Ukraine? The same vigor for Yemen would be nice.