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Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by pxtail »

Seattle3503 wrote: post #60
drawfloat wrote: post #50

I appreciate it’s a very different time, so not saying they’re comparable 1 to 1, but back in the waning days of Digg you saw Reddit suddenly growing and growing as this new and actually interesting competitor. Is there an equivalent today? I enjoyed using Reddit for years, then used it without (tbh) enjoying it much for probably a couple of years, and finally have almost fully disconnected. There’s no denying it has…

It seems like a lot of communities have moved to discord, but thats obviously not the same.

The problem I have with discord is that it's kind of similar to facebook - content placed there is elusive, temporary, hidden, non-searchable, non-indexable, non-organized. It's why I hate FB groups and pages with passion - it's purposely designed to be non-accessible,force to ask same questions and get same answers multiple times, waste your time, such a rotten, hostile abomination...

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by emodendroket »

gspr wrote: post #48
emodendroket wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A succinct explanation of why I've never participated in any online secret Santa type of thing.

You do the secret Grinch thing instead?

Frankly, with the exception of people who are very close to me and actually know what I would appreciate, I don't like gift exchanges that much in the first place... Just a good way to end up with things you don't want but feel guilty about getting rid of.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

emodendroket wrote: post #102
gspr wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You do the secret Grinch thing instead?

Frankly, with the exception of people who are very close to me and actually know what I would appreciate, I don't like gift exchanges that much in the first place... Just a good way to end up with things you don't want but feel guilty about getting rid of.

That's why I always give consumable gifts - chocolate or wine or whatever.

Gift giving is not about changing a person's life forever, or shouldn't be. Its making them smile on the day. That's it. If they're entertained or please I knew what they liked or just hungry, I've succeeded and the gift has succeeded.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by mensetmanusman »

CPLX wrote: post #19

I 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”

We use the term archive at our company. Mostly because there have been many cases where we take things out of the archive and continued support then commercialization.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by MisterTea »

ehsankia wrote: post #29
Rebelgecko wrote: post #17

Maybe 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 red…

At least they have still kept old.reddit.com around, which thankfully doesn't have most of the new bullshit. The day they kill that is the day reddit will be truly dead.

Didn't they nerf old reddit interface? I ditched my account not too long ago after seeing a sudden increase in blank posts on old reddit which when viewed on new reddit would feature images or video.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by imroot »

chiph wrote: post #18

Maybe I don't understand - other than hosting the subreddit, what was Reddit Inc.'s involvement?

They hired the staff/volunteers from the original reddit gift exchange app to work on integrating it into reddit core, then (assuming here), laid them off and killed the project.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by teraflop »

MisterTea wrote: post #105
ehsankia wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least they have still kept old.reddit.com around, which thankfully doesn't have most of the new bullshit. The day they kill that is the day reddit will be truly dead.

Didn't they nerf old reddit interface? I ditched my account not too long ago after seeing a sudden increase in blank posts on old reddit which when viewed on new reddit would feature images or video.

I ran into the same thing. It turns out that if you turn on the "auto-expand media previews" option in your user preferences, the content shows up as expected.

I reported this as a bug about a year ago and never got a response.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by JohnWhigham »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #17

Maybe 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 red…

This is the curse of VC-funny-money-backed companies. Bribe them with a free hit or 5, and then start charging for it once you're hooked.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by mywacaday »

bob1029 wrote: post #80
Aardwolf wrote: post #78

"We made the difficult decision to shut down Reddit Gifts and put more focus on enhancing the user experience on Reddit" Oh, enhancing user experience sounds good: so they'll reinstate the old reddit UI back as the default, the one that doesn't block viewing threads in a mobile browser half the time?

Stories like reddit are why I keep telling our executive staff that I am completely against a buyout. We have one angel investor and all the control we could ever hope for. Our customers love us. Why the fuck do people screw these things up? Are they that hooked on other people's money? I feel like reddit was managing to pay the bills before the series of sellouts and poor product choices...

I fear you are the minority, the vast majority of startups are founded and funded with the hope that there will be a large cash out for the founders and investors at some point.
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