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[Ron / BCLUG]

Steve Litt wrote on 2025-01-16 05:26:

> I knew how to make it multiuser.

Got me thinking about the greatest online multi-user experience evar!1!

(Yeah, I don't play video games so this one was unique in that it pulled 
me right in.)

r/place by Josh Wardle, the author of Wordle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/place


 > Over a million users ...

 > at the time the experiment was ended, over 90,000 users were actively
 > viewing or editing the canvas

90,000 concurrent users is amazing to me.


So, the concept of the game was brilliant and the execution scaled out 
well, a testament to the back-end engineering.


The time-lapse videos of the changing canvas are mesmerizing.