However, with too many entries to line up and only one team of volunteers to work on development, this can take some time.Įach of the volunteers has different free time, but Haagmans and Tsernoh are currently studying. But Haagmans hopes that eventually Whitepot and other groups with similar experience will be able to add their labels to their artworks as long as they exist. “The live story on the internet is great because at least we can watch the first meeting of our column alliance against the gap and then the wrap-up that follows,” she said.Ĭontributors are currently unable to access previous versions of the canvas, so mention of Whitepot Studios currently corresponds to the “empty” location destroying the original artwork. This happened to Whitepot Studios developer Vicky, who collaborated with a Discord team to create an allied art column that was deleted just before the final capture. Many artworks were destroyed in the process, and the original, static version of Atlas only captured the final canvas. This is important to some fanbases as factions battle over receiving and postings. One of them was Atlas, and it agreed to provide further development assistance with the data it extracted.įor example, Tsernoh recently implemented timeline, a feature that allows Atlas visitors to see how the r/place canvas has evolved over its four-day history. “I was actually the first to start downloading all the data from where it was, and while I was doing that, hundreds of people wrote me to use it in their own projects,” Tsernoh said. Eventually, the team working on Atlas contacted the Netlify team, which upgraded them to the open source version of the service, saving them huge costs.Īs the project grew, Haagmans enlisted others to help, including Alex Tsernoh, who was the first to provide the Atlas images. “They were submerged.”Ītlas is powered by Netlify, and thanks to the large number of visitors, the archiving project almost instantly exceeded the bandwidth included in Netlify’s free plan. “When I finished my quiz, I looked at my Reddit, Discord, and GitHub notifications,” he said. He laid the groundwork for Atlas and posted it on Reddit before falling asleep and then watching a quiz. There is a similar document for 2017 and/or location, but 2022 and/or location attracted much more contributors and helped Atlas get off the ground quickly in a way that Haagmans didn’t expect. “And that’s why people like it when it’s categorized, archived.”
“R/place is such a big project for some people that they created real communities for it,” Haagmans said. Lead developer Stefano Haagmans says Atlas is popular because the groups were created to work together on r/place in the first place. Users can post any mural, background, and information about the group that created it. It is also possible to search for entries with keywords and thus find relevant areas of the wall.
The site hosts full screen and displays descriptions of the focus area. This included fun recreations and experiments – for example, if every black pixel placed was permanent – the subreddit became popular, meaning users were around even without a screen to work with.Īmong these conservation efforts is Atlas r/place 2022, an ambitious attempt to fully document this year’s canvas. Even before Reddit released the official final capture, regular users were collecting their own screenshots and time lapses and posting them on the platform. But very quickly, it began to disappear into a blank canvas.įortunately, the same community spirit that went into the r/ground network has also helped preserve it. By the last day, it had become a huge collection of flags, fandom references, and inside jokes. Starting April Fool’s Day, Redditor groups spent four days collaborating and competing for a place on the wall.
When time ran out for r/place, Reddit’s collaborative webwall, people were still able to send pixels, but only white pixels.