Thank you to everyone who was involved in the creation of this, it was a lot of fun and I can't wait for the next one. It's crazy how much nicer it was compared to the one from that other site. I placed a little doodle on the first day not expecting it to survive the night because it was in the path of another large piece. But when I checked the next day, someone had actually moved it to the side. That never would've happened on r/place.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2024
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Canvas — The Fediverse’s r/place
2024 Concluded!
Get a print!
- Check out the other items
- mastodon.world, lemmy.world, blahaj.zone, toot.community, toast.ooo, canvas 2024 stickers also available!
- Donate directly
Links
- fediverse.events
- GitLab / Source
- Matrix Space
- Discord Server (bridged to matrix)
Timelapses
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
the event has concluded! thank you all for participating!
this has been incredibly fun to run, as it was last year (although there was a bit more hiccups this time around)
⚠ Crossposters: link back to this post as it will be updated with more information ⚠
Event date: July 12th, 2024 @ 4am UTC til ~~July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 hours)~~ July 16th @ 4am UTC (72 hours + 24 hours) (it was extended due to a massive performance issue that caused major downtime)
Future events
I'm planning to host another one next year, so stay tuned 👀
If you have suggestions for canvas 2025 or any other events, post them in this post (thanks Ategon)
Supporting the project 💜💜💜
I have spent a little over 6 months completely rebuilding Canvas from the ground up to support future features, and i would love to work on more fediverse events
poster sales
posters of the final canvas will be sold, if you would like to stay updated with information on those, follow the Mastodon account or send an email to hello@sc07.company 💜
the shop site will also include stickers for the following instances:
- mastodon.world
- lemmy.world
- blahaj.zone
- toot.community
- toast.ooo
- Canvas 2024
✨ I wanted to have the shop setup before the event ending, but i couldn't get it setup quick enough unfortunately
EDIT: Shop is now live!
direct donations
Donating via Stripe is the best way to donate directly
contributing to the code
canvas is open-source and is on a self-hosted gitlab instance at https://git.sc07.company/sc07/canvas
at time of writing; the gitlab server randomly restarts due to resource limits
Timelapses
i need to rewrite the timelapse script as some people pointed out some weirdness with the other ones (that's also what delayed this post by almost 3 hours)
Data
Database dump: (48mb) https://cdn.sc07.company/canvas/2024/canvas-stripped.sql.txt
Contains pixel placements, canvas moderation actions, and palette colors no IP addresses
chat.fediverse.events
This will stay up as long as i can keep it running for, i'll make some improvements eventually as well
tools (like a canvas atlas)
if anyone is wanting to build something for canvas, i'd be willing to host the project & give it a subdomain of .fediverse.events
just send me a matrix dm, a dm on discord (grahhnt) or an email hello@sc07.company
Special thanks
thank you to the moderators that helped me this year, even with how stressful it was 🔨
- Ategon (https://ategon.dev/)
- Sugar (sc07)
- Bigcheese
- TheWaffleLord
and the contributors to the code once the event started: 💻
- Ategon
- Marius
- soda_cans
and thank you, once again, for participating this year, i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did 💜
i'm going to now go enjoy my 21st 🥳🎉
- grant
It was similar for me! I was bored and put an UwU down on the canvas at the beginning of the event and it survived almost until the end! People kept repairing it too and put the rainbow road below without destroying it. In the end the space got repurposed for a cute pony which is for the best x3
I'm very surprised how long it lasted though! This community is so nice!
Yeah, we added it to our template when we moved Trixie over. Towards the end of the event it was the only place we could find to put Ocellus.
Oh were you the person that made the little head above the nato flag?
No, but apparently this happened more than once lol
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This will forever be recorded as one of the most exciting events to participate in for my whole life. I've never been this happy and excited before. It is fun and intriguing just to be able to explore and draw a bunch of pixels into a public canvas just like grabbing squares (pixels) and putting it into a giant block of land (the canvas) to draw art with.
Great job! 😃
In addition, I'm quoting from what I wrote in the News & Updates section of my generator hub page:
But, in the end, I was able to put all of them together, a piece of history of my entire generator-making journey, into a part of a large collaborative canvas event! It was also really fun and I was able to interact with people from across the entire Fediverse, and it was also the very first time I experienced such things like that.
Thank you so much for preparing and running an event like this, and happy birthday 🥳
THIS is how I find out there was a canvas event... :(
Lots of people found about it this way last year as well.
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Thank you, grant, and everyone who worked on this! I had fun.
I'd also like to thank the innumerable people who helped others out to complete their drawings - like The Dark Side of the Moon cover prism, or the Debian spiral.
I'm extra happy with how the Mander face and Megumin turned out. ~~And yes, Megumin's feet kept me awake a whole night.~~
Many weebs have sleepless nights over their waifu's feet
Many weebs have sleepless nights over their waifu’s feet
True that.
(To be frank I never understood Megumin's appeal, but since people were posting anime stuff, I joined in. To each their own, I guess? Plus KonoSuba is fun.)
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Are you saying you were only 19~20 when you coded and deployed this? Holy shit, I have done web stuff before but I couldn't get myself to do that even if someone paid me.
That was a truly amazing and fun event, even with the occasional hiccup and downtime phase.
Thanks for hosting and happy Birthday!
Congratulations on an excellent event, and I look forward to next year's. The codebase should be more settled then and hopefully you'll manage to get a decent amount of sleep, unlike this time.
Also, happy birthday!
Oh hey, my poppy survived. And someone added a border. Neat.
I was genuinely shocked at how well this went, especially considering it's the first year. Reddit has done this three times now (four if you count the Adobe Create event) and this blew all of them out of the water.
This is the second year :)
i still have some pixels from day 1 on there!!
It's been a great experience for me! Thank you all for not destroying my small doodle. Looking forward to next year!
Thank you so much to you for making this happen, thanks to the other contributors and mods for helping to keep things running, and to all the participants!
Yay I managed to sneak a little waldo at the last moment, thanks to the people in the chat who helped me, I was placing pixels with my phone on my way home.
Also, awesome work everybody!
(edit to fix grammar)
Waldo is hiding in there somewhere, btw.
Is the thumbnail version going to be the final official version? It's from hours before the end.
It was updated, but it seems Lemmy instances with pictrs enabled keep the original cache. You can still click on the link in the official LemmyUI though.
That's a good observation. The thumbnail is indeed updated and at a higher res at https://toast.ooo/post/4077161 compared to lemmy.world for example.
Thank you for organizing!
Huge thanks to grant for organising this huge event! This year's canvas was 100% better than 2023's.
It was amazing to see all the pretty things people came up with.
Thank you so much for running this amazing event and dealing with the difficulties along the way. Happy birthday! 🎉
Nice board we made folks
And here i was thinking there wasn't an active Sounders instance here! Thanks for the work put in, the whole thing is neat!
Oh shit. Someone created the Taiwan flag! I thought I was the only Taiwanese person here.
Congrats Everyone and thank yooou! :3
Shoutout to whoever drew the cat butler from Omori.
Just finished that game and it left me fucked up but also...happy? Massive emotional whiplash.
In the last timelapse I saw that some pixels were missing during the blackout. We continued placing pixels on the canvas while we only had that white screen bug. So some pixels are missing which were blindly placed.
Had a blast as well! First time doing something like this. Really happy how my pieces turned out.
Thanks so much for organizing this event!
Yay, my pfp's at the top next to the center (the right edge before they added another canvas)!
Was a really fun event, great at building our community, thank you to all involved! Looking forward to the next one
So cool. Is there a way to find out which communities did what?
Neat
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