Like the new sub theme? Too bad it'll be gone in the "coming months" - Fuck you reddit!

I know I can't be alone in this, many moderators spend significant time tweaking and working on their stylesheets for reddit. Granted, there's an increasing number of mobile users who do not get to experience this, but for the vast majority of us desktop users, we truly value the experience reddit's CSS implementation affords.

They've decided to remove the ability to theme with CSS altogether, though.

Fucking moron admins at reddit have literally set out to destroy this site and all its communities, and label it as "revamping" and "new features"...what a bunch of bullshit.

I'm absolutely pissed, I personally have spent countless hours on subreddit stylesheet/CSS work, I've learned a great deal of CSS FOR theming on reddit specifically. To have that all be for nothing in a few months, and have all the tiny nuances that make subs with custom CSS unique go away, in one foul swoop, is a tragedy.

I was literally just made aware of this and thought FOR SURE I needed to share this with as many people as possible.

We need to tell these fucktard admins to back the fuck off removing features we need and care about.


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[75 Points] BaileyJayOFFICIAL:

Fuck the police! 👮🏼


[58 Points] DooshNozzzle:

It wasn't for nothing. You learned something about yourself while you were studying css. look inside your heart and know the truth <3 the universe is love. reddit css has taught us this


[18 Points] bigbawlzxm:

/r/proCSS is a sub dedicated to voicing this opinion. Part of the appeal of Reddit, in my opinion, is the customization in each sub. It really lends itself to fostering communities within the site. This new change to a standard CSS layout could be Reddit's version of the DIGG redesign and failure. Maybe it's time we find another board.


[12 Points] None:

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[10 Points] murderhomelesspeople:

It appears there is valid reason though. Mods have been complaining about lack of better mod tools for ages, CSS made it impossible to enact changes to the site without breaking subreddit themes. I like the custom themes but quite frankly for someone like me it's unbelievably stupid. I don't have time to learn CSS so my sub doesn't look like shit, having a user friendly system in place will do me and many other small subs wonders.

Without seeing what they are going to provide in place of CSS I'd be hard pressed to say they are destroying the site. Sometimes change is necessary.


[7 Points] Jay-__:

$10 that it's because no one is paying for reddit gold to use reddits own themes in the user options.

Or will those also be removed?


[3 Points] Amanda-Binds:

Hey Admins..back the fuck up before you get smacked the fuck up. EDIT: did I sound tough :P


[4 Points] ShitQuantikSays:

Just in case people are not aware, let me illustrate who Reddit's community team is.

When Hoffman took over as CEO, a lot of qualified and knowledgable admins were fired, or they resigned.

Who Hoffman brought on to fill these vacancies in the community team were unqualified popular users.

That's right. Good ole Hoffman hired a bunch of popular users on Reddit to act as admins.

You see, once upon a time, there use to be a page that listed all the admins. You could click on their names to view their profiles. They since have taken this page down.

Why? Well, they said because too many admins were getting messages sent to their accounts. This could be true, but something I found to be also true was after looking into these glorified moderators, I found they were not even qualified for the job.

I reviewed LinkedIn profiles of some of these people, and no where was anything listed about experience in running forum communities.

TL;DR : the community team is shit here on Reddit.

Edit: I realize this was a design team decision. However, I am trying to show the incompetence of Hoffman with his executive decisions, which this of course was. He's striving more and more to be very much like Facebook.


[3 Points] None:

The person answering those CSS questions should be shot.

It is stupidly easy to implement CSS for Mobile and Desktop. With the geniuses working there they could pretty much do anything with CSS to make the user happy.

CSS is the standard. CSS is how every single website desktop or mobile is designed. CSS is FUN to learn. CSS does break but you fix it. It's FUN to troubleshoot CSS and implement hacks because it's easy.

Reddit could be getting behind CSS because it's HIP. They could run contests for best designed SubReddit. Teaching people to get into programming.

What is trickier is implementing these custom themes in the Reddit App. But typically people understand that when you are in an app you lose that customizability. In the app you could just have a custom header, logo, colors, bg, etc.

It's all just databases made to look a certain way using CSS.

The World Wide Web is dying nobody is doing anything for Websites anymore. Everything is apps because of advertising/data revenue, in-app purchases, etc..


[3 Points] HeyItsMassacre:

Mobile users have a dark theme :)


[3 Points] blockmains:

Lets all move to Discord. Works well over TOR, if that matters


[2 Points] Charlie-Luciano:

Css works on mobile. Unless you are still rockin a damn flip phone.


[2 Points] idontreadinbox:

There are easy enough workarounds, too, such as identifying non desktop viewers and THEN switching to the new code, just for them.

This is something Reddit is doing for undisclosed reasons, then pretending it's for "improved features/experience".


[2 Points] big_tex_ag:

This is in an effort to slowly get rid of sub Reddit and move to the new user profile system.

Make the subreddits a looks bland and boring while user profiles will look awesome to subtly get people to quit using subreddits and go to user pages.

Watch they will slowly strip away moderator powers and abilities to kill subreddits and drive traffic to sponsored user pages.

That's my conspiracy theory at least.


[0 Points] 312332183:

Great, I am so delighted that you're pissed. I hope the reddit Admins screw up this site so much that at some point the core members of this sub are forced move to a .onion hosted reddit/board with no fucking central administration where the sub can do whatever the fuck it wants. But hey, just my opinion. this post was brought to you by the anger of non arriving packs.


[1 Points] astekmarine:

It's absolute nonsense. I've read the reasoning behind as to why they want to do it and in my eyes it's a "this is better you'll thank us later" deal. Is there anyway for them to reconsider it maybe a petition? But as far as I read they don't seem too willing to even have a discussion about it. Their lack of quick responses and vague answers prove that. I'm on board with whatever course of action us as a nation would do to prevent this from happening.


[1 Points] blusuxx:

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[1 Points] whoiiinvitedthisguy:

Will the color still be dark grey


[1 Points] dangshnizzle:

There will still be customization. And CDS really slows down Reddit updates


[1 Points] bobbiggs69:

I turned off the CSS after the new theme came out. Too dark.


[1 Points] ACrafty:

Why do people think removing features is a feature? Seriously, fuck off reddit admins.


[1 Points] 31003:

This CSS sucks.


[1 Points] hulkedbenzoboss-dnm:

Thank fuck! Hate websites with black backgrounds.


[1 Points] DiscoverInfo:

How do I get a cool K icon like you do? I love ketamine and it is my favorite drug. Any chance of maybe like a smaller or modified version of that K icon?


[0 Points] We_Are_Never_Safe:

But if they let this CSS subculture continue they risk the digital crowd will consider it all too inside and may go to discussion sites where people discuss and don't decorate and talk about how cool the decorations are to design. They, and others are 100% certain that your "vast majority" reasoning won't hold water after the next couple of Moore's Law cycles. Time to drain the swamp, no?

Don't hate on me. I'm on your side.