Other Redditors were content to work on the project. Within hours of r/place's opening, the canvas was filled with profane criticisms of Reddit's CEO. Huffman, whose site relies on thousands of everyday users to act as unpaid moderators, has also criticized the moderators who temporarily shut some of the site's most popular groups in protest, calling them 'landed gentry.' Developers of beloved third-party Reddit apps, such as Apollo, which featured a richly designed way to browse the site, said they couldn't pay the company's high fees and shut down earlier this month. Huffman has come under fire for deciding to charge for access to Reddit's API, which allows third-party developers to build Reddit-based apps. The project's return 'seems like a a weird decision in light of the unprecedented negative sentiment towards reddit right now,' u/BuckRowdy wrote on r/ModCoord, one of the groups that has been a loud Huffman critic. Users from more than a dozen Reddit groups that total over 30.3 million members, including huge communities like r/technology and r/dankmemes, have made public posts that vow to use the canvas to decry Reddit CEO and cofounder Steve Huffman.

Still, the return of r/place isn't placating everyone.

In the past, r/place has featured scenes featuring pop culture images, including ones added by the Reddit communities focused on Star Wars and Super Smash Bros. Not everyone on the site is eager to accept it.Īmid a months-long and very public fight with some users about the social media site's future, Reddit on Wednesday said it would bring back r/place, a blank digital canvas that first debuted in 2017 that lets users add a single pixel once every few minutes. Reddit is extending an olive branch to its angry users: a pixel art project.

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