Reddit kills awards and coins

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Reworking Awarding: Changes to Awards, Coins, and Premium
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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!

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.

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).