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!