Ayep. It’s a clever move to get a July traffic bump to offset any losses from the unpopular API etcetera decisions. Then they can point to the overall numbers and say hey, our average visits per user actually went up after we closed the API, so this is proof our users actually love all our shitty recent decisions.
Meh, any engagement bump will be fleeting, and meanwhile they're going to have another round of Reddit Sucks articles about either a) /r/place being taken over by anti-reddit people or b) Reddit censoring /r/place.
I was curious about this a while ago but there are a bunch of features including error correction for damaged or partial codes. If I remember correctly, it was created for automated manufacturing so it makes sense to have redundancies to minimize delays and downtime.
I tried to fix it, but from Voyager (wefwef.app)'s side it was even worse, so I undid it. It’s working fine on the desktop, and following Lemmy’s commonmark guide, so I think that the issue is from wefwef’s side of the things (check if there’s a bug report about this in their github).
It works on Jerboa. BTW, reddit edited r/place and removed all of those messages shortly after they were created. There’s a video of it happening somewhere out there.
I’m slightly interested in finding out where that QR code is intended to go to, and whether they can keep it intact. Not interested enough to go back to Reddit to find out, though.
If they use a real QR code (instead of the compact data matrix), keeping it functional should be easy. QR has a very robust error-correcting code built into it.
I know a discord was discussing between that or a url. Not sure if they decided. But if it’s true that it’s only going on for an hour then there may not be enough time to really do much.
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