Canvas — The Fediverse’s r/place
I think it would be good to get some privacy and security people to work on the software. I think bots and duplicate accounts are a big issue but maybe you could try implementing some sort of new tech to solve it.
Overall it was a great experience. I just got annoyed at the Australians
What do privacy people have to do with keeping out bots?
Please don't just mix different concepts together like this.
Anti bot tech tends to be anti privacy
Suggestions:
there's an issue to add support for undoing pixels with bans, but that would mainly get used in very bad circumstances and wouldn't be the default
as others have mentioned, there's not going to be anything that automatically does actions against IPs, instead opting for a flag that moderations can look into further
i've also mentioned somewhere else in the thread, but i wouldn't want to punish new accounts as, especially this year, it brings new people to the Fediverse and i don't want to hamper the growth of that :) (it also isn't very possible to get a reliable creation date of new accounts because of how the fediverse is designed)
OK! At least the other batch of suggestions was more useful :) Those are fair points.
If you undo the changes done by a bot it could cause chaos. It is better to let users know it needs to be fixed.
Also you could do some sort of proof of work to make it unfeasible to have a bunch of alts.
Not suggesting any big things here... All I propose is to have the options for toggling the canvas overlays (empty canvas, heat, template) directly within the canvas editing screen instead of putting it in the sidebar, kinda like Google Maps. I think the sidebar version would be preferred in mobiles, so you could make this desktop only.
Alternatively, you could allow the user to place pixels on the canvas even while the sidebar is opened, like the way it was for the first 48 hours of the event. Also ensure the right side of the color palette is not hidden by the sidebar.
I would suggest a small countdown to the end of the event on the place where the pixels count and coordinates belong (circled below), only displaying during the event.
i didn't end up getting to this before the event ended, but this should be added for next year
An extended undo functionality would have been handy sometimes. Like, having an eraser that would revert any pixel I have placed myself (and that is still visible) to what it was before while adding one to my pixel store until that is filled. That way I would be able to move or correct things without having to wait (possibly twice as long) for the counter.