mastermindReddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time
Wolf Link 🐺It boosts traffic during a time a lot of ex-redditors scraped/nuked worthwile content and left. If people are annoyed and want to show that off, but they can only change a single pixel every-so-often, then they will refresh / check the site VERY often to make sure their hard-earned single-pixel contribution isn’t overwritten by someone else.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was one of the reasons, trying to profit from the agitated masses somehow.
But r/place is ruled by bots... I bet the kind of people who develop bots are reeeeaaaly pleased about the API changes...
I haven’t done so, but r/place would be extremely easy to write a bot using Selenium to place pixels without an API. It is a giant grid, and once you write a function to place at coordinates on the grid (which would be the hardest part, but still trivial) you can parallelize it and do whatever you want.
Oh absolutely, but the venn diagram of people who can do this, and people who value open APIs is pretty close to a circle.