I couldn’t care less about such a thing (it’s not like I could use it with Sync for Reddit anyway) but I genuinely thought these gimmicks were already dead?

I definitely recall some redditors commenting on something like “if awards still exist I would give you one right away”.

Can I transfer my awards from Reddit to Lemmy? /s

  • viking@infosec.pub
    23·
    2 days ago

    I think they reintroduced them at some point since nobody was buying premium, and their cashflow tanked.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      LOL.

      So people really pay for this?

      I might head to the desktop to see what it is as I have never paid for gold… The only way I got it one day (and I don’t even think I “enjoyed it” was because of the Alien Blue iOS client which gave away something like 4 years of Gold if I remember correctly).

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        So people really pay for this?

        The existence of whales in mobile games is fascinating by itself, of course people will pump money into awards.

  • anothermember@lemmy.zip
    3·
    2 days ago

    I think you have to use one of the “redesigns” for it to work, or maybe it’s only in the app. Not on Old Reddit anyway.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      71·
      2 days ago

      I hope I don’t get crucified for saying this, but I am not fond of old reddit… Maybe because I didn’t “grow” with it (my 1st Reddit experience should have been the Alien Blue app for iOS).

      I don’t enjoy clicking each image to get it to a comfortable view size and I miss a lot mark as read on scroll (to be honest this isn’t present in any of those redesigns AFAIK).

      I am aware you can pretty much improve your experience completely using browser add-ons such as RES but at the moment that I used said add-on they dropped support for Safari, so I lost track of it…

      Nowadays I got back to the right path (Firefox) so I might check what it has to offer…

      Taking advantage of this nonsense… What is your preferred desktop UI for Lemmy?

      • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
        4·
        2 days ago

        I think old reddit is only preferable if you prefer text posts, which is what a lot of the original redditors are nostalgic for. At least that’s what I’ve gathered over the years. I also started on new reddit and I’ve never understood the issue with it (at least while running an ad blocker that is)

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      I mean even if I look up something and find Reddit results, it uses the current mobile site version and I don’t see any awards. Sometimes I’ll see comments highlighted in gold as if they have an award though.

  • Alice@hilariouschaos.com
    1·
    2 days ago

    You can still give Awards but I can’t really put my finger on with the difference is from the way it was before to now