[No Spoilers] Farewell triple flairs, and reddit css

[u/beelzeybob]

Reddit update

Some of you may have heard by now, but reddit is undergoing a much needed redesign for it’s > desktop site <

And one of the caveats of this, is that while the base reddit will look nicer, subreddits will no longer be able to use css to customize their subreddits, and moderators will have far less control over the functions of the subreddit. While this is good for a lot of people who are new to reddit or creating their own subreddit, it’s fairly detrimental to a lot of subs that have their own complex designs (see this list) .

Currently admins plan to replace a lot of those functions with widgets, or build a lot of our needed features into reddit as needed. But if anyone is familiar with the track reddit of reddit support for moderators, you can see why some of us are hesitant to depend on reddit for this.

What CSS means for r/DragonAge

Aside from looks, and our beautiful flying cow, If you enjoy using the desktop version of this subreddit, we use highly customized css for:

• Triple flairs, which you can use to show off your favorite hero in DA, their class/personality, and even their love interest/your favorite factions.

• Fancy scrolly links to all the stickied weekly threads at the top. By default, reddit only allows subreddits 2 stickies at the maximum.

• Our submit content button, which pre-fills the title of your submissions out with [Whatever Spoiler] for those who are too lazy to type them out.

Finally...

If you wish to join other redditors in discussing this issue, please check out /r/ProCss to see what you can do about this.

We, and me in particular (since I created the triple flairs) will at least be fighting to keep those in the case that we do get reduced to “widgets”. So if you want this feature (some other subreddits that use flairs similar to us here), please keep us in mind whenever you have the opportunity to give feedback about the new redesign!

In the worst case scenario, if we may not be able to keep our flairs/css at all, we probably have a year or so more left with them, so it was nice designing them for this awesome community, and I hope you guys had fun with them!

[u/killingtime2]

I really don't pay much attention to the behind the scenes stuff on reddit since I am not a moderator. Since you are more aware than I would be but basically they want to do away with customization in favor of people who view the subs on their mobile devices?

[u/beelzeybob → u/killingtime2]

That's the gist of it. A lot of people also have the feeling they are trying to open reddit up to more users, like the twitter/facebook crowd.

If you look at some of the newer features like u/kn0thing's profile, that's the aesthetic that they will be aiming to make more subreddits look like.

I can't say I'm a fan, but I'll try to cooperate if it means some of our hacky features being built into base reddit.

[u/SnowVeil → u/beelzeybob]

One of the things I love about Reddit is that it still can be made to actually resemble an old-fashioned discussion forum, which is getting rarer and rarer outside of highly niche communities.

If I wanted Facebook, I'd go to Facebook. I try to avoid sites that go out of their way to make my activity everyone's business, as if holding conversations is some sort of contest.

That said... given the popularity of sites like that, I'm aware I'm in the minority now, so I can't blame them too much for wanting to increase their usage statistics.

[u/desacralize → u/SnowVeil]

Same here. This place is one of the last major refuges of actual long discussions - not the most sophisticated discussions, god knows, but having enough room to express ourselves and share ideas in more than short paragraphs packed into little blocks in a narrow column of the page so as not to distract from the pretty pictures and videos taking up the rest of it.

[u/killingtime2 → u/desacralize]

I agree. No discussion has ever happened in 140 characters.

[u/killingtime2 → u/beelzeybob]

I can understand your cooperating because no matter what, the changes are going to get made but even getting a little something is better than nothing.

It's really going to kill some of the nice layouts out there. I just hope in their effort to expand the user base they don't alienate their core base. There are a few sites I have seen pretty much die because they attempted to expand viewership. Ease of use doesn't always accomplish much. Good luck!

[u/centerflag982 → u/killingtime2]

I just hope in their effort to expand the user base they don't alienate their core base

Reddit's admins have shown time and time again over the years that this is of zero concern to them

[u/killingtime2 → u/centerflag982]

Honestly, most of them don't anyway. Many times if they do acknowledge their core base it ends up being lip service to shut people up. This site deserves an update but not a dumbed-down version of itself. Make tools that allow people to be creative. Facebook and twitter are fine for their purpose but other sites should not strive to be them either.

[u/centerflag982 → u/beelzeybob]

u/kn0thing's profile

Holy shit that's ugly.

[u/killingtime2 → u/centerflag982]

In some ways it reminds me of a bad tumblr theme.

[u/desacralize → u/killingtime2]

God, I hope not, I have no idea how a site can be as big as tumblr and still be such a ridiculous clusterfuck of design and usability. Though I guess we're about to find out with reddit...

[u/alexandriaweb → u/beelzeybob]

I feel like the reddit admin being more active at getting rid of some of the really awful, hate groups that keep springing up all over reddit and making the news would bring more users in than making the whole site a generic white + round corners combo.

[u/PapaCharlie9]

Sigh. Why must general progress always result in local regression? CSS mods already had my appreciation for the creative work they do, but in the face of arbitrary rollbacks of the powers-that-be, it's a wonder that anyone bothers to make the investment in the first place.

[u/anonymys]

Whaaat?!

But, but! I love my triple flair. And that damn cow.

[u/EmeraldDepths → u/anonymys]

Ditto!

[u/enkindlethat → u/anonymys]

Related: I often feel the need to disagree with you on principle, even when I generally don't. Just to be different. :p

[u/anonymys → u/enkindlethat]

Wait, what?

Also is our matching flair on purpose or coincidence? Lol.

[u/enkindlethat → u/anonymys]

I FEEL LIKE I HAD MINE FIRST, but I'm actually not sure. XD

[u/anonymys → u/enkindlethat]

This flair is best flair. We should start a club.

Also you totally probably had it first. I change up the first and last on occasion. That middle one is forever, however.

[u/centerflag982 → u/anonymys]

This flair is best flair.

Incorrect. For more information, see above.

[u/enkindlethat → u/centerflag982]

ur just sad ur not in the club

we have hats

[u/alexandriaweb → u/enkindlethat]

Our hats are better https://twitter.com/RealFPJr/status/597242079907975168

[u/EmeraldDepths → u/alexandriaweb]

OMG I love this, hahahaa, Bull needs that for sure! XD (Thanks for posting this, I laughed so hard!)

[u/Kirkwaller → u/anonymys]

THEY WILL TAKE MY FLAIR, MERRIL-QUOTE AND ALL WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY F*CKING COLD, DEAD HANDS.

[u/JustinsWorking]

I'm sure you guys will come up with something cool; I will miss the current setup though

[u/itsSparkky → u/[deleted]]

crawls back into shadows

[u/JustinsWorking → u/itsSparkky]

Yea pretty much that

[u/Korrafan_1]

What a load of halla shite. Boooooo Reddit admits booooo

[u/anonymys → u/Korrafan_1]

"Bow to the Admins of Slime, the Admins of Filth, the Admins of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Boo. Boo. Boo."

[u/Korrafan_1 → u/anonymys]

Why is the man doing this?

[u/celtlass → u/Korrafan_1]

Because they had LOVE in their subs, and they gave it up!

[u/Artemis_Aquarius]

and moderators will have far less control over the functions of the subreddit

Wasn't that the whole point of reddit? So people created and moderated their own places?

So they basically want to suck the soul out of every subreddit so they all look exactly the same... sigh.

[u/thelittleking]

Remember when reddit was gonna get a good search function? Wouldn't hold your breath on the ports of CSS stuff to widgets this decade.

[u/Skulltaffy]

We as a fandom could always move back to the Livejournal / Dreamwidth days of yore, for customizations sake?

No? No? Drat.

That said, I don't really get why Reddit's admins want to be Facebook so bad. Generally, if people wanted Facebook, they'd be on Facebook. I like custom subs like this. They're easier for my somewhat-damaged eyes to read. :(

[u/[deleted]]

Anders, what have you done?!?

:(

[u/maldwag]

Well, the layout has been broken for me using Edge for quite a while now. I cannot access my shortcuts at the top of the page or click Snoo to go back to the main page. Or experience the flying cow.

[u/maldwag → u/[deleted]]

Originally, i thought I'd give it a go. Used to use chrome exclusively. I've liked edge, uses less resources while I'm multitasking, which i do a lot. And it's got support for all the extensions i use, so haven't seen a reason to switch back.

[u/beelzeybob → u/maldwag]

It's a z-index issue with edge, but so few people use edge, I gave up on fixing it. It's not just this subreddit, other websites, like rockstar's page are borked in edge too because developers have problems with it. So you could be seeing a lot of websites incorrectly because many don't develop for edge.

I would look into this for the subreddit more, but as the css is going away, there isn't much point.

[u/alexandriaweb]

No :(

[u/ser_lurk]

:(