"On Friday, Reddit unveiled Place, the latest in its streak of annual social experiments celebrating April Fools' Day. On Monday morning, Place came to an end. Here's how it went.
Basically, Reddit Place was a huge, collaborative canvas accessible on Reddit for desktop, iOS, and Android. It's almost like a massively multiplayer Microsoft Paint, where every Reddit user gets to paint one "tile" on the canvas every five minutes. That time limit means that users are forced to work together to do anything more meaningful than a random scribble.
Reddit rose to the challenge. At the time of its grand finale, Reddit tells Business Insider, over 1 million Reddit users had painted more than 16 million tiles on the Place canvas. Immediately before the end, over 90,000 users were simultaneously viewing the canvas and placing tiles.
What they came up with was pretty amazing. Here's the final state of the Place canvas:"
http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-place-april-fools-experiment-creates-pixel-art-final-version-2017-4
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/in-memoriam-reddits-72-hour-live-graffiti-wall-as-a-social-experiment/
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