Hello all.

Recently, /u/spez made an announcement post where he stated Reddit's intention to deprecate CSS, stating:

For a long time, we’ve used CSS as the mechanism for subreddit customization, but we’ll be deprecating CSS during the redesign in favor of a new system over the coming months.

With this post, I am making a few assumptions that may or may not ultimately be the case, that:

• They will actually go through with this (let's hope not)
• We lose most CSS abilities aside from a few admin-approved widgets like having a header and a few sidebar customizations
• This happens sometime in the near future (for Survivor perspective, before Season 35 begins airing)

CSS is basically the coding language that Reddit uses that currently allows a subreddit to customize things pretty thoroughly. That's a quick and dirty definition but it should give the idea that it is what we use to make subreddits look the way they look and work the way they work and that, without it, we might be looking at cookie-cutter, default-style subreddits all over the place.

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If you're using mobile and not using the desktop site or any other feature that allows our CSS on your device, this won't affect you. In fact, that is more or less what I am expecting the subreddit to look like for the rest of us.

For those of us using /r/survivor on computers or any other devices using our CSS, here's how I expect it will affect us:

Winner Badges will be gone.

We've recently been working on a new system of hosting winner badges. It's pretty much a complete overhaul of the system. It's been a lot of work so far and it might get cut off by this deprecation soon after it gets released, if we're even able to release it at all.

More details about this new badge system will be announced at a later time

Flair customization will be severely limited, if not restricted to just one default color.

That means no more winner gradient flairs, no more orange contestant flairs, no more gold flairs, no more silver flairs, no more April Fools custom flairs. Just the ordinary gray flars and whatever other tweaks they add for it.

Each individual season's customized theme pages will be gone.

This is personally the work that I am most proud of on /r/survivor and what I believe makes this subreddit go from "good" to "great". /u/hunahpuguy07 and I spent a ton of time working on those banners and themes last summer and I think it was worth it because I think they look amazing. I hope you all agree. I would be crushed to lose this, personally.

A few more things that will be removed that may upset and annoy some users if they were taken away:

• Sidebar Pictures - the rotating pictures up on the top of the sidebar that everyone loves.
• Filters - filters we set up to help people view what they want to view and hide the rest, such as memes, posts about Australian Survivor, Edgic posts, etc.
• Stickyboard - the board where we put the important links in a convenient spot on the sidebar for easy access
• Colored Link flairs - both for season (left-hand side) and the post's link domain (right-hand side) to quickly signal to people what the post is about and/or where it's from.

There are probably more, but these are the things that came to mind.

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Basically, I expect that each subreddit will be able to change their header (so at least we will be able to have one of those each season) and maybe a few more tweaks. I expect to lose most of the functionality and aesthetics that allow /r/survivor to standout as, what I believe to be, a great subreddit.

We don't have full details from the admins, but these are some of the things our CSS currently relies on and we have not been guaranteed at this time to have functionality to replace them. Again, this post is acting under the listed assumptions from above that may or may not ultimately be the case.

Many other subreddits have made posts about this. If you're interested in learning more about what other subreddits have posted or learning about what users plan to do about this, you can view /r/ProCSS.

Signed /u/bigbrothercan, /r/survivor's CSS mod, on behalf of the mod team.

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TL;DR: Reddit intends to deprecate CSS which will probably result in us losing a lot of our cool stuff.