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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hexagon pixels. (Or weirdly shaped areas to be filled). It would force more creativity and get rid of all designs from previous rounds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Weirdly shaped canvas yes, weirdly shaped pixels no, in my opinion. Not until I have a computer with hexagon pixels.

Doing a theme each year with an appropriately shaped canvas would make each year feel distinct

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don’t end till there are no more virgin pixels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What about designs that contain white?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You paint them white properly so they no longer show up as as virgin pixels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Run an extra day or two, so everyone gets some weekend and week day? Between shift workers and countries with different weekends, Sat/Sun is still a workday for many.

Thursday-Monday feels good, perhaps with one of the modifications discussed here halfway through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The chat wasn't working for me. There is a hotkey ('B') for that but nothing appeared for me and I don't know if something was wonky on my end. Would be nice to be able to easily communicate with other peeps during the event.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Like xuv said, it was a matter of moderation and how Matrix is much better setup for moderation. I failed to remove the mentions to the chat though, which did confuse people, sorry about that.

for next years I would like to better connect the on-site chat with Matrix to make chatting a lot easier (and bridging a Discord server to the Matrix space)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

for next years I would like to better connect the on-site chat with Matrix

That would be great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There were a couple questions about that here where the admin said they disabled it because they expected people to chat on Matrix instead. I imagine that's easier to moderate etc but it would've definitely been more user friendly to have the built in one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Also, after its done we can do something like r/place atlas too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think doing it more often than reddit would be cool, not super frequent, maybe twice a year. For now the gui is amazing, and i loved this iteration of canvas!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Different background colour so the final result doesn't look as empty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Open a second phase with a black background.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I was thinking the same. You could even do a "flags blank" where it starts with flag-sized rectangles of various random colors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I, and I'm sure many others didn't and won't take part due to the time commitment. I get the competitive element is part of the fun for some, but some way of accommodating those that would just like to add something without defending would be good, like a section where users own a segment and to build something bigger you have to work with neighbours, but you don't have to worry about being overwritten on your patch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'd like the option to place white pixels on virgin white pixels as a form of grief protection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Better mobile support for templates, like buttons to toggle visibility

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

First of all, thanks for this event. I love things like this.

Then i have an idea for the next canvas. What if the virgin pixels have no cooldown. Only already placed pixels gain more and more cooldown. A bit like on everyonedraw.com. this way the canvas would be full very soon, then the wars begin. I understand that many dont want rivality but i guess there are some who do want. Maybe it could be alternating. Obe year peaceful, one year war.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Permanent one working with a different model. Like 1 pixel per hour with a fixed drop rate (instead of this “stay and place as fast as you can for best performance”), and you can hold like 36 pixels. So basically you drop a few dozen pixels daily then you're 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Infinite German flag? Sounds like an infinite German flag to me