The last few months have been a crazy few months for us here at RedditGifts. I have been trying to write a big post about what exactly happened but, I really am not a writer and the whole process of writing is driving me insane. So, I figure I'll skip to the end and talk about the future of RedditGifts and then hopefully I will finish the other post i've been working on at some point.



Over the past 2 months 5days and myself have done a bunch of work and have learned a lot about running a program like this. We have been trying to figure out if we want to do this again and have come to the conclusion that yes, we will do this again and we will do it better.



We have some plans for what needs to happen and what is going to happen next, unfortunately there is a good amount of work to be done in order to get us to this point. Here are some of our current thoughts.





We will have 2 big gift exchanges every year. One centering around June 25th and the other centering around December 25th.

The gift exchange in June will be limited to people who participated in the December exchange (and were good santas). There will also be some amount of invites given to each good santa for the June exchange.

There will no longer be the option of giving more than 1 gift. This, more than anything we did this year caused us problems and these problems are very hard to track down and deal with.

We will create the ability to have other exchanges of different types so that we can do things like card exchanges. These new features will not be ready in time for Valentines day, sorry.

In order to keep this going and go at the pace that is needed we will need to find some ways to bring in some money on this project. We intend to keep this as unobtrusive as possible, but you will start seeing some changes in the coming weeks and months. There will be some form of advertising as well as merchandise. We hope everyone understands the need for this and shows us some support when this all happens.



In closing, we would like to thank everyone who participated this year and gave us support throughout the process. It has been a lot of fun and I think if we do this smartly, it will be even more fun next time!



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