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The new site doesn't work either. I'm assuming that it's due to the traffic to r/places

What's with r/places? I went to the subreddit to see what it is as it was mentioned too many times. It just have some images with flags and whatnot.

And there is no proper description for the whole subreddit.

> It just have some images with flags and whatnot.

That's basically it, users can color a tile every 15 minutes or so. The reddit Twitter page posts some of the cool stuff if you're into that

It is quite an amazing idea. Every five minutes a user can place one single colors pixel in the canvas. Subreddits and other groups coordinate and make some interesting pixel art. Worth following imo.

It was almost immediately ruined by bots the first time.

Is that still happening?

I mostly use Apollo so I can't even see it.

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