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Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
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Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
#82Replace www with old in Reddit links to bring back the old layout, as in https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/nw2hs6/sunse...
Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
#83"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?
Replace www with old:
https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/nw2hs6/sunse...
Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
#84Years 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…
I'm sure enough people will read this that it will be good advice for someone of them.
Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me reddit lost sight of why I used the site about 3 years ago, or maybe that's just when it got bad enough that I no longer felt unsubscribing from all defaults was a suitable solution. There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought. It's mostly a mutual admiration society where the boundaries of allowed disagreement and interesting discussion may touch here and ther…
>There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought. Whats your thought on sites like voat that were seen as escapes but immediately turned into cesspools and then ghost towns?
Voat turned into a refuge for people on the far right who only wanted to talk politics, 100% of the time. Even if you lean towards that side of the political spectrum, it gets very tiresome.
Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
#86I 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”
I think sunset is potentially useful in that it denotes a gradual change, rather than an immediate or abrupt cut-off.
Only makes sense in that context though.
Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started engaging with Reddit about 3 years ago, right on the verge of things going downhill. So I’m not sure how much of this is normal over Reddit’s whole. But I did notice a shift in the political boards to a mean-spirited alt-left attitude. Whatever, politics are needlessly divisive right now. But as I got more into other subreddits, the same attitude seems to be there too. Make an objective statement even remot…
I think it’s missing the point to say it’s alt-left. In the Uk side of things it was always true r uk was left and r ukpolitics was right, and then there was a fascinating shift in various ways during election times. But either way the core of the issue was just that whatever the prevailing view is drives out disagreements. Twitter is bad because bubbles form and then they collide causing fights. Reddit solves this b…
And then banning the bubbles that engage in wrongthink.
Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me reddit lost sight of why I used the site about 3 years ago, or maybe that's just when it got bad enough that I no longer felt unsubscribing from all defaults was a suitable solution. There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought. It's mostly a mutual admiration society where the boundaries of allowed disagreement and interesting discussion may touch here and ther…
>There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought. Whats your thought on sites like voat that were seen as escapes but immediately turned into cesspools and then ghost towns?
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Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
#89Maybe 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…
For me reddit lost sight of why I used the site about 3 years ago, or maybe that's just when it got bad enough that I no longer felt unsubscribing from all defaults was a suitable solution. There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought. It's mostly a mutual admiration society where the boundaries of allowed disagreement and interesting discussion may touch here and ther…
I think there is something to this, but I don't think it's about "orthodox leftist thought". I am by any reasonable definition a leftist. I find Reddit culture (and similar) insufferable and would not be admired there.
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#90I 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.
And even though it seems basically fine now, I am not confident that Discord won't suffer a similar fate to Reddit.