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Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit - Talk at SF Tech Poetics 01/18/18

Josh Wardle

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Josh Wardle shares lessons from creating collaborative online experiments like The Button and r/place at Reddit.

My thoughts on April Fools' day in Silicon Valley and some of the lessons I learned creating The Button and Place at Reddit. This talk was given at GitHub as part of SF Tech Poetics. Learn more about the group here: facebook.com/SF-Tech-Poetics-1234662803267437/

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What people say. Recommended for its insights into online community design and the mechanics behind Reddit's viral collaborative experiments.

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On “Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to design online spaces”

Many of the points in the New Yorker article were also shared by Wardle himself in this (pre-Wordle) talk about April Fools Day at Reddit: link to this video If you found the article interesting, you may like this too!
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On “Wordle Is a Love Story”

see also: Josh Wardle's talk on "Why April Fools' Day sucks and what we did about it at Reddit" – link to this video
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On “Will Reddit tell us the technical story behind r/place 2022?”

Josh Wardle, the original creator of /r/place in 2017 goes into a brief postmortem in one of his talks here: link to this video (around 14min mark)
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