The OP's post was written the engineering team behind r/place. Wardle was indeed Reddit's product manager at the time. He wrote this blog post about 2017 r/place https://www.redditinc.com/blog/place-part-two/
I added the invent word to clarify that I don't mean "this guy created it, not the folks who wrote the article in the original post". How would you phrase it? :)
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The original /r/Place was created (invented?) by /u/powerlanguage who recently rose to prominence again when he created Wordle.
They went from /r/Button to /r/Place -- it really felt like this was /r/Place sequel rather than another original experimental sub for reddit.
Wordle would have been perfect -- every reddit account getting the little green and black squares display.
The OP's post was written the engineering team behind r/place. Wardle was indeed Reddit's product manager at the time. He wrote this blog post about 2017 r/place https://www.redditinc.com/blog/place-part-two/
He didn't invent pixel wars any more than he invented Mastermind.
I added the invent word to clarify that I don't mean "this guy created it, not the folks who wrote the article in the original post". How would you phrase it? :)
I remember at least one that existed years before r/place. Drawball was created in 2005 and was probably better.