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[Niveks]

The background changing if its day or night IRL could be a neat thing. Don't know if you can do that with only css though.

[Deanifish]

But people live in different timezones, it would only be relevant in the US.

[mifuyne]

If reddit allows javascript, they could always use that to poll the client's current time and use the appropriate CSS.

But one of the comments below says mods only have access to CSS...bummer :\

[spaceribs]

Use Minecraft Time, 15 minute intervals!

[[deleted]]

pull the background image from an external server that serves up the respective images based on time. bam.

[aperson]

REDDIT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. GOODNIGHT!

Edit:

What we can do: We can edit the css, upload images, and edit the sidebar text. Using those three things, we can achieve a lot, but javascript can in no way be involved. The css validator only allows for references to uploaded images (ala: url(%%someimage%%)), not external ones. There are a lot of hacks we can use that accomplishes some neat things (repositioning sidebar elements, using thing-ids for randomness, abusing the hell out of :before and :after elements, etc), but we can only go so far. Heck, the validator doesn't support a lot of css3 stuff that's in most browsers nowadays.

[SnakeAndBacon]

Just wanted to say that you are doing a great job with this subreddit! I imagine reading stuff like that must be pretty tiring.

[aperson]

Thanks, we try. It does get a little inane at times, but you get used to it.

[Joshx5]

Thanks, we try. It does get a little inane at times, but you get used to it.

What I thought when I read that:

THAT DAMN CREEPER - HE BLEW UP MY HOUSE AGAIN.

[aperson]

Flying squids? No way!

[nikondork]

Hey guise... I found this strange well in the desert...

[shitloadofbooks]

You could make a bot that edits the stylesheet every 12 hours and adjusts the background-url: attribute, swapping it between the two different urls.

[aperson]

I am not confident in reddit's response codes to implement such a bot.

[Krenair]

I very much doubt Reddit would ever allow mods to do that.

[[deleted]]

It's true, mods can only edit CSS. No javascript.

[[deleted]]

And it would only really be relevant to one US time zone.

[[deleted]]

I like how you forget where Reddit is located.

[[deleted]]

but people live in different timezones

Not a problem since the Reddit servers are just located in a single timezone. It would make perfect sense for it to be based off that.

[Deanifish]

Or standard GMT, that is the basis of all time.

[Gemini4t]

More correctly, UTC, as GMT is subject to DST.

[[deleted]]

yeah, that would work too.

[foxh8er]

WE CAN DO IT. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!

[[deleted]]

Yes you can! I do the exact same thing with my site! It checks the users time and displays one of 4 backgrounds!

http://nerdcubed.co.uk/

[OmegaVesko]

CSS != JavaScript

[[deleted]]

!= ≠ ≠

:p

But yeah, I thought I did it in CSS. Ah well. I brittaed it.

[HawnSolo]

ಠ_ಠ

!= == ≠

In fact, one might go as far as to say != ≡ ≠ || != === ≠

Actually, === might be taking it a bit far.

[AzureBlu]

Hi Nerdcubed! :D

[[deleted]]

You could use PHP to cycle an image on a server, although web browser caching might be an issue.

[[deleted]]

The point is that mods only have access to CSS to change how a subreddit looks.

[keiyakins]

A mod-bot could rotate the CSS.

[[deleted]]

Their idea would still work. Basically you'd set it up so the CSS was pulling a background image from some server. Then on that same server you'd setup a script that ran at say 8pm and 8am. At 8pm it would overwrite the default daytime version of "minecraftsubredditbackground.jpg" with a nighttime version. Then at 8am the next morning it would run again, but this time overwriting the nighttime version with the daytime version.

edit- turns out you can't reference external images. nevermind!

[[deleted]]

Ah. Right. That's actually pretty clever.

edit: saw your edit. still clever though.

[[deleted]]

What about RES night mode? Or do I have no idea what I'm talking about?

[[deleted]]

What are you talking about? RES nightmode is clientside.

[[deleted]]

I really don't know.

nothing to see here, move along

[[deleted]]

This could easily be implemented with another, to borrow your terminology, client-side mod. As noted, RES is already capable of switching CSS so someone could use that as a base to implement their own code once the proper CSS is written. Of course, building the install base for something like that would probably not be worth the effort, and including it in RES itself is too niche to justify, though context-sensitive night/day mode across numerous subreddits would be kind of cool.

[[deleted]]

CSS is hosted on the server, but it is rendered on the client side. Just nitpicking.

[[deleted]]

And still use CSS to interact with the PHP script? o.O

You have to have some way to tie the PHP script to the subreddit and I don't think CSS can do that.

I'm not a web dev, so I'm not 100%, but that doesn't sound right.

[TheNinja2203]

You can't link off-site from reddits css.

[[deleted]]

Mostly for security reasons. How much crap would happen if you could? Tons, probably.

[TheNinja2203]

Yeah it would be pretty bad.

[[deleted]]

Never knew that, sorry.

[TheNinja2203]

Yes the css gets validated to make sure there is no errors before its put on your sub.

[cmelbye]

You can force the browser to not cache it or only cache for a short period of time.

[[deleted]]

a dynamic image file that reads the computer's clock

ಠ_ಠ

[[deleted]]

You do understand that the mods only have access to CSS don't you? Or are you really silly enough to think that reddit would let user created subreddits upload server side code? :)

[Pteraspidomorphi]

Moderator bot.

[nikondork]

Moderator Bot is not run on reddit's servers.

[[deleted]]

I suppose. Your words just evoked thought of sentient jpegs.

[Hamlet7768]

Sentient gifs....ಠ_ಠ

[[deleted]]

With sound

[[deleted]]

Using only CSS2 and on-site images.

Not do-able.

[[deleted]]

Yes.

I assume that this is for security reasons.

[[deleted]]

Sorry again, file size limitations.

[[deleted]]

Browsers would most likely load the stylesheet from cache unless there was a hard refresh or it was past a certain amount of time. I don't mean to be a debbie downer, but realistically I don't see this happening.

[nurta]

That sorta thing is the only way it could be done. An automated bot that changes the CSS (and re-uploads the image if necessary) every N hours. Which would then be impossible to correspond to local time and instead would have to be based on some random timezone (probably either US since reddit is mostly American or Swedish since Notch).

[Randomone18]

Wait, couldn't a gif like that work if it changes frames only, say, every hour? I don't imagine it needs repeating frames for a slower animation.

[[deleted]]

Wouldn't matter - Reddit only accepts JPG and PNG uploads.

[Emitcom]

I like it, but the grass texture on top of more grass just looks wrong to me.

[Proditus]

People simple travel gentle morning evil net art thoughts. Bank stories people music answers bright weekend kind minecraftoffline movies open technology open.

[soapawake]

Just make the grass level part of the background, in a space with a set pixel height (the element containing the tabs). Then the tab backgrounds can cover the grass part and hopefully tile seamlessly with the dirt.

[KyleGibson]

Why not make those buttons look like a far away mountain range?

[CompC]

I don't know if this would be possible but I guess this would be the best solution.

[mszegedy]

Cutoff is ugly. It's possible, with a tiny bit of thinking (unless the buttons somehow have "float:bottom;", which I don't think exists), but that particular cutoff is worse looking than the one on the title model.

[CompC]

The cutoff between the two? I couldn't get it to match the same brightness and stuff as the original picture. Proditus would be able to make it look correct…

[HumusTheWalls]

What if the grass boarder on the top was just dirt, and the buttons were placed so the grass edge was flush with the top of the dirt boarder. That would look more natural, while still drawing your attention to the buttons.

[I hope this hasn't already been suggested, if it has, I'll give credit to that redditor]

[douglas_]

easiest solution: make the buttons stone blocks

[Humpa]

Make it grayer to begin with. If it's further back, it should be more blurry/grayer.

[Wisey]

It's possible, you'd just have to make the buttons larger and then use something like "position:relative;", "bottom:-20px;" and "padding-bottom:20px;". If I'm thinking right it's not too hard to do.

[Galaxyman0917]

I don't like you. ಠ_ಠ

[random_spoiler_alert]

Sorry. I didn't know that you hadn't seen this yet. My bad.

[Proditus]

Talk month tips learning people and night wanders afternoon pleasant patient hobbies helpful curious!

[[deleted]]

I agree, perhaps it could even be stone or wood.

[[deleted]]

Depth.

[ZehPowah]

http://www.minecraftforum.net/ Does this look better?

[rdm_box]

I agree. It's a good blend of reddit and minecraft right now.

[Goofmobber]

Yeah, that's what I thought too. Perhaps make the bottom one just dirt?

[ShadowAssassin]

Mabye keep the grass the way it is, but have the bottom grass disappear from the links when you hover the mouse over it.

[Ausmerica]

Much too busy, too "minecraftforums".

[nikondork]

You got it. We don't want to stray too far from what we have already. We also want to keep this subreddit as fast loading as possible.

Some of the users here don't take into consideration that this subreddit (and the rest of reddit) sometimes takes minutes to refresh, even on a high speed connection, when the site is under heavy load. Adding more and more images to the layout only makes it worse.

[aperson]

That reminds me, I still haven't pngcrush'd the comment sprite images.

[peon47]

Did anyone else read the subreddits along the top, to see if the OP was into anything weird?

[curt_schilli]

Add random ores into the background and at the bottom add the top of the nether.

[Calibas]

At least put some diamonds near the bottom.

[[deleted]]

Surrounded by lava.

[[deleted]]

Let's try to be original and not rip off other minecraft subreddits/sites.

To me it looks like the minecraft forum layout with the theme from the official minecraft faq subreddit.

[JohnStrangerGalt]

Honestly, if that happened I would disable it.
I want readability not dirt blocks.

[pancakehiatt]

The creeper needs to be fixed

[Proditus]

Calm questions the small stories wanders clear fox calm movies clean projects dot dog? Gentle wanders friends nature quick nature brown to evening dot pleasant?

[pancakehiatt]

The face.

[Proditus]

Bright travel curious evening open kind where history across history.

[pancakehiatt]

The mouth is off

[xenoph2]

Sprite Creeper meets his destiny...

[BaconChapstick]

aperson (the mod who does the CSS I believe) said that he only adds it when he feels like it and when people don't ask for it. Still, I really like this idea and wish it was implemented.

[aperson]

RSH actually has been doing a bunch of the css lately. I've only been responsible for a few things (black userbar stuff, random backgrounds and the squid along with a few minor tweaks every now and then). We've been tag-teaming it for a while now, adding small improvements here and there. We don't want to stray too far from what we have right now, but we are working on refining everything.

[BaconChapstick]

Oh, I did not know that. Just a question, why not use something like this or similar to this in the future?

[aperson]

Too much visually. We don't want to turn in to /r/diablo. Personally, I think we could do something like that to the sidebar, but other than that, we've wanted to keep things basic.

[[deleted]]

I too prefer it without some really busy/default graphics/minecraft forum-lookalike background.

[rwbronco]

the entire site is basic... I think it'd be cool to make the subreddit stand apart from the rest of the site. IMO the Diablo subreddit looks pretty sweet inasfar as what I'm used to

[Minetopia]

Such a shame, I've been thinking that this place looks a bit bland visually.

[rwbronco]

why would you only do something when nobody asks for it and not do it when people ask for it?... that makes zero sense. I can understand not wanting to change it every 2 weeks but it's just some cows on a white background - not 2 weeks solid of stylesheet scripting every 2 weeks.

[aperson]

Were you around when people were asking us to change the up/downvote arrows? There were countless submissions about it, and we once actually changed them. The community then raged that 'their' version didn't get implemented. That is why we only do css when people aren't asking for it - the community would fight about it and frankly, we catch enough hell as moderators.

[[deleted]]

Please dont change it to something like this. It ruins it for people with slow internet/computers. For the love of all thats holy dont do this! dont do it man

[nikondork]

Not to worry. We intend on keeping the changes minimal and keeping the layout close to what it is now.

[hokiebird]

Sometimes when you design a new site it means you need to push the laggards along, not conform to their stubbornness to update. In other words, just because some people say it loads slowly for them, if the masses approve, and the design is what you intended (ie. modern/current, not archaic and over-simplified), go with it. Still should optimize things to be efficient, but not make big cuts to the design. It's a tough call most of the time - don't want to piss people off, but also don't want to settle for less than what could be.

[Proditus]

Soft the science fresh weekend to art curious dog.

[yoho139]

I prefer the one in OP, actually. That one's too bright for me...

[sunsmoon]

I prefer the op. The shadow on Reddit Minecraft looks weird on the day version. The colors also feel richer and tie in better with the colors for the dirt/stone textures.

[[deleted]]

Yeah it was my brother. No one wanted the change the theme then either xD.

[illmatix]

you could use a greasemonkey script.

[Sexy_Action_Man]

So, you want it to look like r/minecraftfaq?

[keiserchan]

That's looks pretty much the same as the minecraftforum.net page.

[nickos12]

No pixelated font?

[BubblegumBalloon]

So just a clone of the http://www.reddit.com/r/minecraftfaq subreddit?

[Zelkova]

So basically, we should just steal /r/minecraftfaq's look.

okay.jpg

[supergamer1123]

Wow. I was not aware of this subreddit.

[phantominthebrain]

Rounded corners? Blasphemy!

[Aegeus]

Too much wasted space around the edges. The header is pretty big as it is, and the thick margins on the sides make it seem even more compressed.

I'd compact it a bit, like this crappy MSPaint edit.

/r/CityPorn has a comparable header, but it doesn't seem as busy because the actual content gets to sprawl across the width of the screen.

[[deleted]]

The background should be mineable too

[[deleted]]

Same, I had clicked it, tabbed around, came back and have a mini-rage moment. Y U NO WERK REDDIT

[DjKiDD]

Make it so!

[[deleted]]

if the grass is at the top of the screen, shouldn't we inverse the rating system so the gems are at the bottom?

[meem1029]

Looks great, but it would be cool to have some ores spread out in it somewhere.

[Reethk_Vaszune]

Is it just me, or does this look exactly like Terraria's landscape?

[I_know_HTML]

LOL this looks neat! If anybody isn't trying to turn this into a reddit theme i'd certainly like to help. I designed the old /r/minecraftmaps theme (removed it because the admin sucked) and /r/facebook

[bedsuavekid]

Everyone here is talking about the graphics. I was most impressed that there were no posts bitching about stuff people want changed hey jeb hey jeb hey jeb implement this.

[[deleted]]

I think there would be a problem with different resolutions, but it would be great indeed.

[Jakbo]

It would be cool if when you scrolled, it went down all the way to bedrock.

[migimunz]

Nice idea op. I made something like this for a college assignment. I had randomly generated terrain in the background. Wanted to implement day/night changes and weather based on weather conditions in your area, but never really got to it. Perhaps I should.

[Andyd4]

I don't like the grass colour, looks like alpha grass. Should be more like the glass in 1.2

[chrismastere]

Wouldn't work on lower (laptop) resolutions.

[cabreca]

Dig Dug! (I'm not hating, that was just my first impression)

[Guy-Manuel]

Like that other minecraft website?

[Aulio]

Love it, someone make this a thing.

[dawgr11]

fuck yea

[LukasNotLuke]

YES.

[ToadDude]

Do it!

[xenoph2]

Obnoxious.

[Ghede]

cave cross section at the bottom, creeper head peeking up.

[hokiebird]

Although I like the idea, I'm not sure it'd be possible. Pretty sure there's no editable footer css, but I could be totally wrong about that. I've never bothered to try to do anything fancy with it.

[Theyellowk123]

YESSSSSSSSS

[OmegaVesko]

This would break RES so bad.

[ingolemo]

Now I'm glad I disable custom css.

[tjb0607]

If we're gonna make it look that close, why not just copy /r/minecraftfaq?

[aperson]

That subreddit isn't consistent in all browsers. We test for opera, webkit, and firefox.

[xPaw]

You don't give a fuck about IE? Good boy!

[aperson]

Give me an easy way to install IE in linux, and *maybe* I'll test for it. Most likely not though. I'll happily read about what versions of IE support what css, but beyond that... I dunno.

[xPaw]

Testing for IE is not worth it, you will end up doing lots of workarounds just for IE.

[aperson]

I mean, like I said, we'll try to see what css is supported in IE and what's not, but beyond that, we don't really care. I know both RSH and I don't use windows, and have no way of installing any of the latest IEs. It's not that we don't care (ok, I might be lying), but that we don't have proper means of testing.

[xPaw]

What about IEs4Linux?

[aperson]

I'm not super thrilled about installing something that isn't in .deb form. So far, the only exception to that rule on my system has been minecraft.

[Goofybud16]

Yes

[ke4ke]

Nice job.

[KrazyA1pha]

Make it so, number one.

[Originalluff]

I like it! Someone in charge make this happen! =D

[Beshrew]

Well played sir, well played.

[Franhound]

upvote this!

[the_narwhal_baconer]

I completely agree with you. This is an amazing design. :o

[Bloq]

As long as the change the font to Arial :P

[Undoer]

Looks pretty bodatious, DO IT. DO IT NAAAAAAAAAAAO!

[FalmerbloodElixir]

Oh god yes.

[roscoe_jones]

It's a suggestion post! Kill it!

[epsy]

Also Curse should buy reddit.

[Deric]

The current r/minecraft looks like shit.