HN points to it as a pre-Wordle look at Wardle's thinking on designing online spaces, and as a brief postmortem of r/place.
Josh Wardle, later the creator of Wordle, talks at SF Tech Poetics about why April Fools' Day in Silicon Valley is often lame. He shares lessons from building The Button and Place at Reddit.
“If you found the article interesting, you may like this too!” (HN, 2022)
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: [this video] If you found the article interesting, you may like this too!
Pre-Wordle talk sharing Wardle's design points on online spaces.
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