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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it would be a great system to easily donate to instance hosts if it was supported as an instance opt-in feature.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That was the original premise of reddit gold. You bought it to support the server costs. It used to even show you how much server time your gold had supported. I think at one point it even had a progress bar for monthly costs.