Reddit Is Bringing Back r/place for April Fools 2022

Reddit’s standard April Fools Day neighborhood artwork mission, r/place, is coming again after a five-year absence and a complete lot of person requests.

For April Fools Day, 2017, Reddit determined to do one thing a little bit totally different by giving customers a shared digital canvas (roughly 16 million tiles) that they may add to. The mission, r/place, has been the web site’s hottest occasion for the normally prank-driven day—and after 5 years, it is lastly coming again.

The new r/place will not merely be a rehash of the unique experiment, nevertheless. Reddit states that it is making a lot of enhancements throughout the board for the 2022 iteration, with a greater platform and worldwide availability. Once each 5 minutes, logged-in customers will be capable to faucet wherever on the 1000×1000 canvas to position a single tile. Those who aren’t logged in will not be capable to place tiles, however they may be capable to view the canvas in real-time because it progresses.

Reddit customers will be capable to discover r/place by way of a brand new widget (displaying the letter “P”) that may seem on the prime of the house display screen or via the neighborhood drawer within the app, as soon as the occasion begins.

“April Fools’ Day on Reddit has a history of inspiring how we build new features on the platform,” mentioned EVP Strategy and Special Projects, Alex Le, within the announcement, “We look forward to seeing what collaboration happens on r/place this year and learning how we can better our platform.”

r/place will kick off on April 1 and run for 87 hours till 9 pm PT on April 4.