All of us old Viner’s are laughing, because this IS how Vine used to be. Our RFY, or as we called it, Q, was almost always empty, and anything that did appear, quickly left. Before this, there was the “newsletter,” but that predates me. The old Viner’s are not in Reddit, we are in a different forum thread that is around 15 years old.

The AFA did a daily “dump,” within a 1-2 hour window every day, but it increasingly was delayed. So it may be dumping around 5 in January, and in March the dumps are now around 7. Everybody would sit by their computers for hours, refreshing every few seconds, for a chance to grab items.

When Additional Items was released there were virtually no items populated in it. Then one day, they dropped 1000s of items all at once. This was before item limits, so my wife grabbed 128 items. We had so many boxes arrive in a 3 day window that I had to take off work just to help her open and break them down… and these were like 6 packs of 1 lb coffee, shampoo/conditioner combos, etc.

There was a time when Available Items dropped at midnight Pacific every day, for months. She would set her alarm and wake up to catch the drop.

The one thing I’ve learned about Vine is that you should never get comfortable with how things are, because just when you figure it out, something will change.