R/place

Reddit users were greeted with an all-new pixelated logo today, and many are curious to learn more about it and r/Place.

This has got many people confused, and they are wondering if this is the new logo for Reddit. Well, it is the new logo, but only for a short period of time. Every Reddit user from across the world gets a chance to place tiles on this canvas, and contribute to filling the entire canvas. Games like World of Warcraft prank players by modifying the inventory of certain classes, which players often consider a bug.

Customizable app icons are a great way to liven up your home screen. Recently, however, the Reddit app icon decided to turn pixelated all by itself.

While Reddit hasn't confirmed when the pixelated app icon will go away, it'll likely go back to normal once r/Place ends on April 5. Over in the r/Pixel4 subreddit, user u/cp2434 posted, "I updated the Reddit app and right after it updated the Reddit app icon on my home screen appeared blurry. The Reddit app allows you to change its app icon. More specifically, the Reddit app icon recently turned pixelated. Following the latest update to the official Reddit app, many users have noticed that the app icon is now pixelated — causing them to wonder what in the world is going on. However, within the last couple of days, you may have seen that the Reddit app automatically changed icons on its own.

Flags, factions, and pixelated “wars” galore.

So, add a pixel to the big, ever-changing internet masterpiece. A Canadian Maple leaf sprouted odd fingers, and there’s a slightly-misshapen Rubix Cube with a game of tic-tac-toe, and there are flags from around the world peppered throughout the canvas. This must be the r/Place — Fans of a popular rhythm game called “osu!” coordinated very well to quickly deploy a circular logo.

of reddit r/place project Five years after the original experiment in 2017, it's back to April Fools' Day. in which "More than a million Redditors put up.

Together you can make something else.” place announcementthat “individually you can make something. This morning, when the project started, all pixels in the project were white and as of midnight ET on April 5th, redditors can add a single pixel to a 1000 x 1000 grid.