diff --git a/2020/imposter/subreddit-discovery.md b/2020/imposter/subreddit-discovery.md index a5c6613..70cc59f 100644 --- a/2020/imposter/subreddit-discovery.md +++ b/2020/imposter/subreddit-discovery.md @@ -55,3 +55,7 @@ Afterwards, the subreddit became private, with its description being a single cl ``` An archive of this subreddit at its earliest private state is available [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20200219085825/https://www.reddit.com/r/second/). + +### Future Use of r/second + +On , datamining revealed that r/second was the event sub for the 2021 Reddit AFD event. The research file for this is [linked here](https://github.com/Snakeroom/Research/blob/Create-r/Second-Discovery-Page/2021/second/subreddit-discovery.md#discovery-of-rsecond). diff --git a/2021/second/subreddit-discovery.md b/2021/second/subreddit-discovery.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4cff390 --- /dev/null +++ b/2021/second/subreddit-discovery.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +# Discovery of r/second + +#### The following information is copied from [the Imposter writeup from 2020](https://github.com/Snakeroom/Research/blob/master/2020/imposter/subreddit-discovery.md#rsecond). + +## Discovery + +[r/Second](https://reddit.com/r/second) is a subreddit created by [u/Tacoeconomy](https://www.reddit.com/user/Tacoeconomy) on . An archive of this subreddit is available [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20120124132042/http://www.reddit.com/r/Second). + +On , u/powerlanguage submitted [a subreddit reclaim request](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/f5vnvt/requesting_rsecond_only_mod_inactive/) to [r/redditrequest](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest). + +Afterwards, the subreddit became private, with its description being a single clock emoji at 3 o'clock: + +``` +🕒 +``` + +## Confirmation +#### Portions of the following information are adapted from [this announcement post](https://canary.discord.com/channels/429823323585773568/562206450349506560/824096953616433193) in the Snakeroom Discord Server + +In the apk for reddit version 2021.11.0 on android, [announced here](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditmobile/comments/mbm24v/reddit_for_android_version_2021110_now_available/) and +[located here](https://github.com/Snakeroom/Reddit-Assets-Archive/blob/d7370fd9263a3ed8ce650c0ecf5e9cce7bd2e739/2021/Subreddit.js#L12232-L12238), +references were found to r/second as being the event sub for 2021. + +- The API URL is https://second-api.reddit.com/ (currently a 404) +- The event will be embedded as https://second-api.reddit.com/embed (similar to last year) +- The event involves images in some way + +What do we know about the event? + +Currently, the Android app makes reference to the following fields: + +- round start timestamp +- round end timestamp +- image ids +- Image names +- vote counts +- image id +- image name +- image ranks +- winning image id +- winning image name +- image set name +- image set id + +The icon consists of three stacked horizontal lines, left aligned and increasing in width as they go down. The top line is a dark gray, the middle orangered, and the bottom black. + +![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/50307653/112734370-f94dc300-8f0a-11eb-93f9-dcebcf34543d.png) + +After the conclusion of the chaos arg in March of 2021, an unnamed Reddit employee held a Q&A with community members, stating that while he was kept in the dark +as to the actual contents of the event, as far as he was aware, r/second was the event sub for the 2021 Reddit AFD event. + +This information is up to date as of .