Reddit kills awards and coins
Reddit kills awards and coins
Hi all, I’m u/venkman01 from the Reddit product team, and I’m here to give everyone an early look at the future of how redditors award (and...
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As part of this, we made a decision to sunset coins (...) and awards (...)
(...) all awards and existing coins will continue to be available until September 12, 2023.
"sunset".
two months time.
Longer than the warning they gave for the API changes!
Gotta rush for that IPO money!
Why September 12? what a weird date... one day after 9/11, wtf lol. Was this announced on the 12 July (I'm not going to reddit) so maybe it's one month after the announcement.
two months is an eternity for reddit management
Reddit sure loves it's two month notification period.
verbed the shit out of that noun
This is actually used as a verb, as ending something slowly and gradually, so as not to cause sudden and disrupting changes.
Sunsetting Python 2 for example lasted 12 years (extended from original plan of 7 years).
Yeah it's corporate wank-speak, I'm not a fan.