Looks like its being recreated by the first three employees at r/newsecretsanta (https://old.reddit.com/r/newsecretsanta/)
Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
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#12Hopefully, maybe, the community might come together and crowdsource a new Reddit Secret Santa that's run by the Reddit community rather than the Reddit admins.
That's literally how it started until they stole it. Same with reddit coins/reddit silver.
Yeah -- this might act as a reminder to keep it for the community, run by the community this time, instead of handing it over to Reddit who are becoming increasingly profit-driven at the expense of anything else, including their users.
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#13Years ago I participated in this. Someone sent me a beautiful programming book, but I failed to purchase and send a gift for my recipient because I was a stupid, selfish kid. I still feel horrible about it to this day.
That alone is why people sign up for Secret Santa rematching. Your gift giver probably didn't go without because someone else was kind and stepped in. Even so, given that you feel horrible about skipping out on that obligation but can't apologise to the person you wronged, you should take that energy forward in your life and use it as a reason to do good things for others also anonymously - maybe someday, as a result, you'll be able to forgive your past self for letting that person down. I don't like to give advice, and especially not to strangers online, because it's impossible to know people and their situation well enough to give good advice. Still, in this circumstance, I think it fits - I could be completely wrong though, and I don't mean to be impertinent so please feel free to disregard if inapplicable.
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#14Years ago I participated in this. Someone sent me a beautiful programming book, but I failed to purchase and send a gift for my recipient because I was a stupid, selfish kid. I still feel horrible about it to this day.
A succinct explanation of why I've never participated in any online secret Santa type of thing.
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#15Didn't the idea start on Something Awful or another site like it? Do they still run their secret Santa?
I don't think any one forum can claim to own the concept but it was certainly common on more traditional forums too.
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#16Looks like its being recreated by the first three employees at r/newsecretsanta ( https://old.reddit.com/r/newsecretsanta/ )
I'm going to make a sub /r/nonewsecretsanta and claim the original secret santa was a hoax. This is the hill I die on.
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#17Maybe I'm not the typical user, but to me reddit seems to be losing sight of why people use the site. They're killing aspects of the community that people actually care about. In the meantime, most of the site's new features seem to be centered around avatars and selling cosmetic microtransactions.
I can't blame them too much for trying to monetize, but I wish their strategies were more inclusive of the way I use reddit
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#18Maybe I don't understand - other than hosting the subreddit, what was Reddit Inc.'s involvement?
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#19I realize that it’s not the most important issue given the current state of the world but I really wish the tech community would stop using the word “sunset” to replace the universally understood word “end”
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#20Didn't the idea start on Something Awful or another site like it? Do they still run their secret Santa?
I don't think I'd want a goon from Something Awful sending me anything - or knowing my physical address.