Hello all,

As some of you may know, r/place will be returning tomorrow, 20th July, as officially confirmed by Reddit [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/153vw8z/better_late_than_never/). For those of you who haven’t experienced it before, it’s essentially an interactive “social experiment” game that Reddit usually runs on April Fool’s. It involves the community drawing pixel art as a collective, and there is always a UK-focused piece on the canvas.

Since both of the previous editions have started with a slow and disorganised effort from the UK community, we have maintained the basic infrastructure from last year so that we can hit the ground running. We’ve begun the process of reviving everything and everyone so that we can start strong this year, and hopefully not have our flag be square for the first day. Third time’s the charm.

Some of you may be interested in this and some of you may not. The mods have given me permission to post this information thread to signpost people in the right direction, as often this event results in people flooding all the UK subreddits with questions about it.

So if you are looking to get involved, please join us at r/UKplace and in the [Discord server](https://discord.gg/gkwTR9pdPb). You can use the subreddit or the relevant Discord channels to submit design proposals and such, and we are hoping to have a working template overlay from the get-go as with many other communities, but this will depend on who/what we can bring back online at short notice. If you think you have relevant skills that could help us in these areas, such as experience as a developer/software engineer or with graphic design, and would like to come onboard as a programmer or artist, please shoot one of the admins at r/UKplace or in the Discord a DM/ping.

Additionally, please go out there and spread the word that r/UKplace and the Discord server are the official place to be for the UK community during r/place. We often end up fighting against our own people split into separate factions who don’t know what’s going on, and every member counts! The permanent Discord server invite is:

https://discord.gg/ukplace

If you’re with us, I’ll see you there. If not, that’s fine, feel free to ignore me! Thank you all, and good luck!

by Flobarooner

20 comments

  1. The place will be closed down after 2 days after being used as fuck spez protest.

  3. This seems timed as a distraction. Remember in the last few weeks Reddit has:

    * Introduced insane API charges that have resulted in the death of loved third-party clients like Apollo
    * Deleted people’s chat history from before 1st January 2023
    * Made changes to Reddit Gold and removed Reddit Coins (literally cutting off a revenue stream after pleading poverty)

  4. So are we going to do a flag again just to have a fight with bluey and the LGBTQ community like last time? Fml.

  5. I vote to join the blackout gang and black out R place in protest

  6. You guys went from indefinite Touch Grass Tuesdays which lasted 2 weeks to supporting /r/place pretty quickly

  7. Hey guys Brazilian here, we noticed the british flag right above ours and i do have to say it looks really good

    But the guys at r/OMORI are planning to take over parts of it, they are already taking the Brazilian flag just below, would the the moderation here be willing to contact the Brazilian moderation for some sort of defence alliance?

  8. Sadly old reddit has been excluded from r/place this year. I suppose that’s a sign of how things will be in future. I thought as much.

  9. I appreciate interesting is a stretch but surely the whole thing would be more interesting without all the coordination

  10. What’s going on with the UK flag? Are we fighting trolls or our selves? It’s been almost a day.

  11. PLEASE for the love of dog, get the bot.

    Go to /r/ukplace or join the [Discord](https://discord.gg/ukplace).
    Follow the templates. Its a struggle to maintain against well meaning people who ‘think’ they are helping by e.g. putting the diagonals in the wrong spot.

  13. Can we get the lettuce on there? Most inspiring leader we’ve had for a while, deserves to be commemorated

  15. How would you guys feel about putting a Pink Floyd prism somewhere on or near your flag?

  17. The discord won’t let me in, Demands my email and when I give it, wants my password, and when I give that, says it is “too weak.” well -it is the same one I use for other discords What’s wrong with t?!! Never mind. Used the app, no problem.

  19. I would like to suggest an addition to the area around -311, -308. A single teacup. But that’s just me wanting stuff. x3

  20. Is it okay if add a few white dots in aussie lands names? cheers!(at -233,323)

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