{"id":2528,"date":"2022-03-29T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/29\/reddit-is-bringing-back-r-place-its-april-fools-day-art-experiment\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:55:14","slug":"reddit-is-bringing-back-r-place-its-april-fools-day-art-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/29\/reddit-is-bringing-back-r-place-its-april-fools-day-art-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit is bringing back r\/Place, its April Fools\u2019 Day art experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reddit said Monday that it\u2019s bringing back its r\/Place<\/a> April Fools\u2019 Day experience for four days beginning April 1st. Alex Le, Reddit executive vice president for strategy and special projects said in a blog post that the move was meant to showcase \u201cthe magic of online communities, conversation, and collaboration.\u201d <\/p>\n

The r\/Place board, which launched on April 1st, 2017 featured a large, white pixel grid on which logged-in Reddit users could place colored pixels one at a time every five minutes just by tapping on it. It was wildly popular, attracting some 16 million tiles from more than 1 million users (but of course had its share of weird and crude images<\/a> as well). And, r\/Place was the brainchild of Josh Wardle<\/a>, whose name you might recognize as the creator of the popular word puzzle Wordle. <\/p>\n