These preservation efforts include the 2022 r/place Atlas, an ambitious attempt to fully document this year’s canvas.
The Atlas is popular because groups had formed to work together on r/place, in the first place, lead developer Stefano Haagmans said.
Here’s how it came together When time ran out for Reddit’s collaborative internet mural, r/place, people could still place pixels — but only white ones.
A similar document exists for 2017’s r/place, but 2022’s r/place attracted so many more contributors, helping the Atlas quickly take off in a way that Haagmans wasn’t expecting.