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Josh Wardle, the original creator of /r/place in 2017 goes into a brief postmortem in one of his talks here: https://youtu.be/OXzfvYoFQFo (around 14min mark)

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Didn't realize Wardle created the 2017 place but that makes so much sense. Thanks!

Wardle also made 'The Button' from April Fools Day 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)

Also here https://www.redditinc.com/blog/how-we-built-rplace

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