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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 · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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.

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What HN commenters said

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    Pre-Wordle talk sharing Wardle's design points on online spaces.

    dejawu, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to design online spaces”

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Topics: josh wardle, reddit, r/place, the button, april fools, wordle

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