Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time::Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when user dissatisfaction with the platform is very high.
That doesn’t seem like a prudent idea.
“Hmm, a lot of people are incredibly unhappy with decisions we’ve made in relation to Reddit, we should give them a highly visible visual way to express themselves and see what happens!”
No such thing as bad publicity and for reddit’s case no such thing as bad user engagement. He could right in that area. As much as reddit users complain as long as they keep engaged with the platform instead of doing it somewhere else and keep visiting it frequently to vent their frustrations it’s a win. Engagement is engagement.