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Word on the street is that many of you enjoyed r/place last year and in 2017 and wanted even more time on the canvas. So, we’re bringing it back.
Finding the right time for r/place to return proved to be a challenge – but hey, what better time to offer a blank canvas to our communities than when our users and mods are at their most passionate… right?
We have some new community-focused features for this go around, which we’ll get into below.
https://www.reddit.com/link/154qutf/video/swpqx0i010db1/playerFirst things first – what is Place?
For those of you who don’t know, r/place is a collaborative digital canvas where redditors can place a pixel once every few minutes – and work together to create art on a massive online cooperative canvas.
r/place was created to examine what happens if you only let individuals make a small contribution at a time, so that they must work with others to build anything significant. What started as an April Fool’s experiment, quickly blossomed into millions of redditors working together to place colored pixels on a communal canvas, eventually evolving into a digital art piece.
Last year, 10.4 million of you created this masterpiece over the course of four days, placing 160 million total pixels. At its height, we saw you all place 5.9 million pixels per hour. From Rembrandt replicas and BTS creations to iconic French monuments and streamer wars, r/place’s reemergence had many awesome moments where you all gathered together to create, cooperate, alter, and meme the world’s largest collaborative digital canvas.
New r/place features
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Hi all,
I’m u/venkman01 from the Reddit product team, and I’m here to give everyone an early look at the future of how redditors award (and reward) each other.
TL;DR: We are reworking how great content and contributions are rewarded on Reddit. As part of this, we made a decision to sunset coins (including Community coins for moderators) and awards (including Medals, Premium Awards, and Community Awards), which also impacts some existing Reddit Premium perks. Starting today, you will no longer be able to purchase new coins, but all awards and existing coins will continue to be available until September 12, 2023.
Many eons ago, Reddit introduced something called Reddit Gold. Gold then evolved, and we introduced new awards including Reddit Silver, Platinum, Ternium, and Argentium. And the evolution continued from there. While we saw many of the awards used as a fun way to recognize contributions from your fellow redditors, looking back at those eons, we also saw consistent feedback on awards as a whole. First, many don’t appreciate the clutter from awards (50+ awards right now, but who’s counting?) and all the steps that go into actually awarding content. Second, redditors want awarded content to be more valuable to the recipient.
It’s become clear that awards and coins as they exist today need to be re-thought, and the existing system sunsetted. Rewarding content and contribution (as well as something golden) will still be a core part of Reddit. We’ll share more in the coming months as to what this new future looks like.
On a personal note: in my several years at Reddit, I’ve been focused on how to help redditors be able to express themselves in fun ways and feel joy when their content is celebrated. I led the product launch on awards – if you happen to recognize the username – so this is a particularly tough moment for me as we wind these products down. At the same time, I’m excited for us to evolve our thinking on rewarding contributions to make it more valuable to the community.
Why are we making these changes?
We mentioned early this year that we want to both make Reddit simpler and a place where the community empowers the community more directly.
With simplification in mind, we’re moving away from the 50+ awards available today. Though the breadth of awards have had mixed reception, we’ve also seen them - be it a local subreddit meme or the “Press F” award - be embraced. And we know that many redditors want to be able to recognize high quality content.
Which is why rewarding good content will still be part of Reddit. Though we’d love to reveal more to you all now, we’re in the process of early testing and feedback, so aren’t ready to share official details just yet. Stay tuned for future posts on this!
Hey y’all, it’s Changelog time.
We’ve got some updates for you on flair navigation and Chat. Keep reading to learn about what’s new.
Flair navigation on mobile
We’re (finally) bringing content filtering to mobile, with a new post flair navigation experience. If you are a member of a community that has post flair navigation setup, you can now select a post flair to filter posts on the Reddit mobile app. It's a convenient way to quickly get to the content you want to see.
This experience will be gradually rolling out in the next few weeks.
Post flair navigation on mobileChat channels updates
As shared in our past changelog, several communities are trying out our first iteration of chat channels on the Reddit mobile apps. We’ve seen folks connect with each other in real time whether it’s sharing their progress on dating apps, showing off their pets, or catching up on weekend plans!
However, some redditors aren’t always aware of the conversations happening in their communities. We want to make it easier to discover chat channels in the communities you’ve subscribed to, so we’ve added two new ways to see these conversations!
In your communities list on mobile, you’ll see a NEW! badge next to communities that recently enabled public chat channels.
3172Dear redditors,
For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Steve aka u/spez. I am one of the founders of Reddit, and I’ve been CEO since 2015. On Wednesday, I celebrated my 18th cake-day, which is about 17 years and 9 months longer than I thought this project would last. To be with you here today on Reddit—even in a heated moment like this—is an honor.
I want to talk with you today about what’s happening within the community and frustration stemming from changes we are making to access our API. I spoke to a number of moderators on Wednesday and yesterday afternoon and our product and community teams have had further conversations with mods as well.
First, let me share the background on this topic as well as some clarifying details. On 4/18, we shared that we would update access to the API, including premium access for third parties who require additional capabilities and higher usage limits. Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use.
There’s been a lot of confusion over what these changes mean, and I want to highlight what these changes mean for moderators and developers.
Terms of Service
Effective June 19, 2023, our updated Data API Terms, together with our Developer Terms, replaced the existing Data API terms.
Free Data API
Effective July 1, 2023, the rate limits to use the Data API free of charge are:
100 queries per minute per OAuth client id if you are using OAuth authentication and 10 queries per minute if you are not using OAuth authentication.
Today, over 90% of apps fall into this category and can continue to access the Data API for free.
Premium Enterprise API / Third-party apps
Effective July 1, 2023, the rate for apps that require higher usage limits is $0.24 per 1K API calls (less than $1.00 per user / month for a typical Reddit third-party app).
Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses and will close before pricing goes into effect.
For the other apps, we will continue talking. We acknowledge that the timeline we gave was tight; we are happy to engage with folks who want to work with us.
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