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[–] 76 points 3 years ago (13 children)

I don't understand why they'd do another round of place at a time like this. Like wtf did they think would happen?

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  • [–] 86 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    If you read the r/place guidelines you must use the mobile app to participate. Hence everyone who is jumping in, even to mock spez, are stupidly doing exactly what reddit wants. Adopt their app. This is purely to get people to join their shit app

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  • [–] 77 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    It works fine in a desktop web browser. No app required.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Hm I just read this post and figured they'd be telling the truth.

    r/place is only available on our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and new Reddit. The new r/place features we are introducing this year are only on our mobile apps and moderators can opt out of these if they want to.

    Seems I missed the new reddit part but it's just as bad as the app.

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  • [–] 59 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Probably to drive user interaction back up.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Precisely.

    They don't care what the users make. They care that user interaction numbers are back up.

    Spez is the scapegoat. The ownership of Reddit knows what they're doing and spez is simply the idiot willing to (poorly) do what he's told.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    They do everything to up the engagement by any means necessary, so they can say that there were no big impact on traffic after blackouts. And it works. It doesn't matter that people go there out of hatred, they still end up as traffic

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