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  • dan@lemm.ee
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    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.world
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      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.ee
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        1 year ago

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

        • ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

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