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honest question, how did you fill out the canvas? you put it live, and then? thousands of people (including those who care enough to setup bot) suddenly came fr

• Strom 10y ago
  I imagine quite a few came from the HN thread [1] where he originally made the bet that he could do it. That's how I found the site. It was 95% blank and I just decided to draw a bit. Later I came back several times to see how my drawing had lasted and fixed some minor vandalism. Also had to completely redraw at one point due to the Merkel bot. [2] Finally, after the blog post discussing how he built it started to get traction the vandalism rate got so high that I decided to write a bot to maintain the art for me. -- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14109158 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14109158 [2] https://twitter.com/josephgentle/status/853312152223965184 https://twitter.com/josephgentle/status/853312152223965184
  • josephg 10y ago
    Someone also posted it to the original r/place subreddit. I think a lot of the traffic came from there: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/65hs9j/inspired_by_rplace_a_twitter_user_is_making_his/ https://www.reddit.com/r/place/comments/65hs9j/inspired_by_r...