• @pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    261 year ago

    I don’t ever remember hearing about this in the first place and I’ve been on there like every day for the past 5 years.

    • @antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      171 year ago

      That’s the weird part. Apparently it’s existed long before the API shutdown, and they only started advertising it a little bit when they killed off reddit awards, as some sort of alternative.

      Not that it would’ve succeeded either way, but it seems like they didn’t even try?

    • athos77
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      11 year ago

      I think it started like five years or so ago? They ran it as a “pilot project” in three subreddit, thinking they’d expand it eventually, but they never did. Now they’re just officially killing it off.

      My personal suspicion is that it’s proven expensive to code it into the app, to maintain the accounts and infrastructure, and that rolling it out more widely would cost too much money. And since it was only three subreddits anyway, it’s easy to kill off and say they’re going to roll the “benefits” into their new rewards program. The one where you can “cash out” based on your reputation and rewards, except it’s specifically designed to make it difficult to “cash out” anything. And I fully expect the available “rewards” to decrease in value over the next couple years.

      Fuck spez.