Reddit complains about not being profitable and then shuts down people paying to literally put a digital sticker on something? An incredibly popular feature?
It wasn't that long ago that they were consistently bringing in enough to pay the bills from these coins alone. ex: https://imgur.com/VCjfaYO
It looks like they stopped showing the daily goal amount about 5 years ago, so what happened between then and now that made them decide to abandon a revenue stream that paid their entire costs on its own?
That screen shot says "A month of gold pays for 231.26 minutes of reddit server time." Was gold bringing in just just enough to pay server costs or did it manage to cover payroll costs too?
(Not that it makes sense either way to eliminate a revenue stream for something as subjective as "decluttering" the experience.)
