Reddit will launch the Place art project for the third time on Thursday
Reddit will start with Place again on Thursday, July 20. This is a project where there is one canvas and users can color a pixel every few minutes. This is how collective art should be created. Users have already indicated that they use Place for protest actions.
Place is a temporary project that normally lasts a few days. The 2023 edition of Place starts on July 20, although it is not known what time and how long it will last this time. The project was held on April 1 last year, the first time was in 2017. Reddit announces two new features for Place, namely the ability for subreddits to pin pixels and a chat function within the subreddit. For example, subreddits must be able to coordinate better in order to create art projects together within Place.
The platform initially wanted to do Place again on April 1, reports an admin. Then four other dates are mentioned that were also not met, without explanation. Place has probably been postponed due to the protest actions in recent months. These started because of the announced API actions that caused third-party apps to no longer work. Many subreddits then went black; some remain unusable to this day.
There is also dissatisfaction because of the discontinuation of the Awards and the deletion of older chat messages. Users therefore do not respond positively to the announcement, about which Reddit also says “better late than never” and “right place, wrong time.” In the comments, users also indicate that they use Place for protest actions, such as large areas with only the text ‘api’.