Post every suggestion as a separate comment to allow for people to vote & comment on each suggestion
Make people aware of it?? Iโm on lemmy all day and filtering by all and local and saw like two passing references to this.
Definitely contact bigger instance admins and get a sticky post going before/during the events
Yeah p.d admin here. I only found out about the event when someone in my instance made a comment referencing it when it was underway.
Getting contacts with admins of various instances ready to give them information as new events roll around is going to be key for growing participants. If people want I can set up a matrix chat for showing off and giving info for future lemmy events and then that can be centralized into there instead of needing to do separate dms.
Theres already an instance admin chat but would likely drown out the event posts since thereโs other topics discussed in there
I sent a couple messages into the Lemmy Instance admins Matrix room, but a lot of instances ignored the posts I made ๐
lemmy.world was voting internally on when to announce it but the event wouldโve been over before the internal voting concluded they are interested in joining the next event tho ๐
and to any Lemmy instance admins reading this, join the admin room so you can be aware of the next one :)
Depending on whats possible, we could do something similar to R/place and every so often expand the canvas start off with something small eg.512x512 and add another 512 px. along side
Bad idea , this will result in most active faction taking over space with every expansion
If I remember right, r/place โscaled upโ by adding more blank canvas. But it might be more interesting to actually scale up the previous pixels as well, so each iteration is overlaying the previous one with higher detail.
The end result wouldnโt look as empty, because it would be easier to fill large areas early on.
Interesting idea. That would perhaps wreck a lot of pixel art, but I guess itโd be fine scaled up to 2x2 pixels as you often see it like that anyway.
If that happens, it should be a surprise - would really throw a spanner in the works and make it a unique event. The more I think about this idea, the more I like it!
Or to make it more realistic, let it expand like the universe. I.e. add extra space between each two pixels:
example
w=blank/white, b=non-blank
wwwww
wbbbw
wbbww
wwwww
->
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwbwbwbwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwbwbwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
Or keep non-blank pixels together, because of pixel bounds.
Permanent one working with a different model. Like 1 pixel per hour with a fixed drop rate (instead of this โstay and place as fast as you can for best performanceโ), and you can hold like 36 pixels. So basically you drop a few dozen pixels daily then youโre done. After every 100,000 clicks, you move the window 100 pixels to the right, making the leftmost 100 pixels locked forever creating a slowly growing endless immutable banner.
You could mitigate that by adding a limited, rotating color pallet. every time pixels are locked two colors are taken away and two different colors are added. You would always be able to see beforehand when certain colors would be made available, enabling a new level of planing. It also forces creative solutions in defending your art
That idea would even work standalone without the immutable thing
36 pixels at once would be fine early on when thereโs plenty of room and everyoneโs doing their own thing, but once it starts to fill up and people start interacting more, other people need time to respond to each pixel.
Maybe have the number go down over time, or say every time you overwrite an existing pixel it reduces your total stack capacity.
Well my point with 36 pixels is that it would let people use the site in a healthy way (daily) but also allow decent velocity of creation for a slow-developing canvas. The details could be tweaked I just figured โonce a day sounds right, no pressure thenโ and "150 users doing 24 pixels per day would fill a 10th of the canvas (the scroll-right number, 100,000 pixels) in a month. Obviously the numbers could be tweaked depending on activity of the community and the dimensions of the editable canvas, I would just say targeting a good experience for โdaily useโ is healthy for a permanent site. Because I know my use of this site this weekend was anything but healthy.
Maybe put the cap at 16 (assuming hourly pixel generation), so you can hit the site twice daily plus a little wiggle room while still reaching peak output. Too often the canvas felt like being the little Dutch boy with the finger in the dike.
Imho the approach of punishing overwriting with slower regen is the right move - every overwrite pixel you place should add a 1 pixel delay to your pixel generation, so vandalizing (and repairing) takes twice as long as creating.
Offical user stats after it is done. Maybe a map to see all your placed pixels? Something like that.
Placement data is available in the official final post, itโs up to us to process it into nice maps. I expect that to happen in the coming days.
Iโd like the option to place white pixels on virgin white pixels as a form of grief protection.
