was a 5 year redditor before bailing last month but never paid attention to r/place until now (fascinating!)

can someone familiar with the inner workings of it please explain to me how it logistically works?

like how do they coordinate creating the flags, logos – most importantly the “fuck spez” messages’.

i believe i read a user can only change one pixel every so often? if true, how is it determined who puts something down, who goes next …etc.

any light anyone can shed on this would be much appreciated!

  • Openmindedskeptic
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    1 year ago

    A lot of groups coordinate on discord; they’ll have a template & an area they want to target. Some of the larger groups may have thousands of people. It depends on the group, but in one I’ve seen, they organize people by birthdate for some of the designs, and by color for the larger part of the design, and let people go.

    There’s a way you can get an overlay of the intended design on the r/place canvas, supposedly, but it didn’t work for me. But like they’ll have templates or whatever.

    One of the largest groups is “the void” and normally it just tries to black out the canvas. This year it looks like they’re helping out the fuckspez black and white design mostly.