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[cbrwizard]

Heya, I am curious about the fate of Reddit's Place clones http://reddit.com/r/place.
I remember that the original was very successful on the launch, with tons of people drawing pixels everyday. A lot of developers started doing their own Place clones, but none of them seems to have succeeded.
Does anybody have an idea why? Maybe it's because Reddit has a much bigger community? Or is it because players wanted something different, not just a clone? Maybe more strategy or even images instead of pixels?

[Tanner]

reddit has a much bigger community. boom done, close thread please

[Schoq]

Executives who looked at pokemon go and thought there'd be money in doing the same thing without pokemon have zero value as human beings and should be disposed of

[quantumpotato]

very successful tons of people drawing pixels everyday

uh, you call that success? Place was interesting but it's mostly a joke - that's why it worked. If you want to repeat the effect you should innovate somehow and tell a new joke. Cellular automata in different colors overlaid on each other, for example.

Or is it because players wanted something different, not just a clone? Maybe more strategy or even images instead of pixels?

You call them "Players" like place was a game. The Reddit hive mind loves anarchic democracy + hipster irony of bad software. It wasn't a "game", it was a social expression. You're overthinking it...

[muki]

It was very successful the first couple days!

Then people starting writing scripts that auto filled in pixels, which kind of ruined it. I remember looking forward to the clones but as soon as they were up a day later, people just instantly ported their scripts to those.

I think unless you do captcha on it, the idea was only destined to work for a short amount of time, from creation to when people caught on to scripts.

[quantumpotato]

It was very successful the first couple days!

Then people starting writing scripts that auto filled in pixels, which kind of ruined it. I remember looking forward to the clones but as soon as they were up a day later, people just instantly ported their scripts to those.

I think unless you do captcha on it, the idea was only destined to work for a short amount of time, from creation to when people caught on to scripts.

But what is the difference, between man and his machine?

[alvarop]

/r/place is nothing original.
Remember those websites back in the 2000 in which you could buy a pixel for a dollar?

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
check it out