The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious::undefined

  • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    That story is so common. They destroyed Secret Santa that way. User-run thing that got some traction so they built redditgifts around it, then decided redditgifts wasn’t sufficiently profitable so canned it and took the user-run part down with it.

    • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I will continue to be bitter about them killing secret Santa. It was such a great tradition, killed off far too soon because it “wasn’t profitable enough”, nevermind that the point of the event is to celebrate the holiday season and the spirit of giving

      • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Didn’t it also start off as an entirely user run thing before Reddit admins took over it?

        • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yes it did. And then they ran it for a handful of years. And then they killed it. Brutally.