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View submission: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
so weird. "We didn't take this decision lightly", but we won't tell you why.
"The power of reddit gifts has always been because of the community, not the software", so we are cancelling the already-working software in order to focus our efforts on unrelated software.
"No one can sign up for the gift exchange anymore, and it will end soon. Anyone who has an incomplete gift exchange will be permanently banned from the closed community that we are soon deleting."
This is the most blatant corporate double-speak I've heard in a long while.
Comment by RevLoveJoy at 10/06/2021 at 12:08 UTC
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so weird. "We didn't take this decision lightly", but we won't tell you why.
. o O ( they weren't making money )
"The power of reddit gifts has always been because of the community, not the software", so we are cancelling the already-working software in order to focus our efforts on unrelated software.
. o O ( because they weren't making money )
This is the most blatant corporate double-speak I've heard in a long while.
Same. The most frustrating part is how foolish their own handling of it has been. Heck, it took the original creator of Reddit Secret Santa what, a couple hours to say they'd start it up again. Why the hell didn't the business geniuses* at Reddit reach out to them BEFORE the announcement?! That conversation takes 5 minutes "yo, it's not working out, want it back? Yes? Cool. We'll work out the hand over and tell the community"
Boom. Done. Now reddit doesn't look like a bunch of greedy clueless morons (like they do today, in the real world).