r/youtubehaiku • u/[deleted] • Apr 25 '17

Meme [Announcement] Do you like those Meme post filters? CSS does that, and Reddit is getting rid of CSS.

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u/mrbubblesort Apr 25 '17

CSS is a pain in the ass: it’s difficult to learn; it’s error-prone; and it’s time consuming.

Now I know why default Reddit looks the way it does. Just because the admins are incompetent designers doesn't mean everyone else is.

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u/Gamerhead Apr 26 '17

To be fair, CSS is stupid at times, but damn. Just learn 2 code n00bz

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '17

It is stupid, but it works well enough.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '17

It's not about learning it, it's adjusting stupid values hundreds of times until it all looks good.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

All modern web browsers come bundled with developer tools. You can literally edit your values on the fly in the browser until it looks right, and then commit it to CSS. Magic.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

Don't know where you actually do this, but I have to create web applications that work with IE 7+...

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

Well that sucks but you can't really blame CSS for not working properly in a browser that's been unsupported for nine years, and that purposely deviated from standards to create a sort of vendor lock-in (remember the "WORKS BEST IN INTERNET EXPLORER" logos?)

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

It's really the first time though I've heard of that. When I learned how to do CSS which I luckily don't have to do anymore, I had to manually edit the CSS file each time and update to check if it looks fine.

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u/UnknownNam3 May 07 '17

For the some four or five years, in Chrome at least, you could easily just right click on an element, click Inspect Element, and then change its CSS styles to what you want and watch it update in real time. Then you just copy the wanted values to your file and save it.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '17

I knew of that. I thought you were saying there is some tool to automatically update and submit it when you change it in the browser.

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u/UnknownNam3 May 07 '17

You really want to minimize pressing the save button, don't you? I completely understand, but there's a reasonable limit.

Regardless of this, CSS is effectively the best design language out there, factoring in documentation, use, and features. I doubt that the Reddit admins could come up with something better.

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u/UnknownNam3 May 07 '17

Additionally to what the others have said, you can create it in a modern browser with dev tools and then make it work in IE7.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '17 edited Aug 05 '18

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u/dryerlintcompelsyou May 01 '17

I'm so conflicted when it comes to that new, minimalist, material-design sort of approach.

Sometimes it looks nice, comfortable, and modern... but sometimes they just try way too hard and it looks awful

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u/[deleted] May 03 '17

What you're describing is called "Chickenshit Minimalism"

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u/EpicScizor May 07 '17

I liked that article. Thanks for linking it.

The article itself warns about bloat and takes up approximately 8 megabytes of space. The pattern continues.

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u/Ineedsomethingtodo May 07 '17

lol I know I'm like 2 weeks late to the party here but are they fucking joking? CSS is super easy to learn. It took us like a week in MIS, if that, to learn all the basics. Sure you can make it a lot prettier if you spend more time but CSS is most definitely not hard to learn. You can find hundreds of tutorials on YouTube

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17

Boo :/ I like seeing all the custom backgrounds and whatnot, such a shame really, even for those who are talented with CSS.

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u/Imponte May 08 '17

and /r/ooer was born

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u/M00glemuffins Apr 26 '17

Ugh, I hate how everywhere on the internet seems to be catering to fucking mobile users. You're on a phone, so what if you don't have the full experience of being on a full sized screen. If I'm browsing from my phone on the train I don't care about subreddit styles. I'm fine with just the basic look of BaconReader or whatever other app because I'm on mobile and all I care about is fast. When I'm on desktop though, bring on the custom stuff. This change is flat out stupid.

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u/Zedyy Apr 30 '17

I would also argue the majority of people who use Reddit mobile aren't using the webiste or the offical app. Most, myself included, use third-party apps.

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u/M00glemuffins Apr 30 '17

Yeah the official one sucks.

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u/Tensuke Apr 29 '17

The shitty thing is, mobile is perfectly capable of so much more but idiot designers hold it back.

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u/Fighterpilot108 Apr 27 '17

Yeah, I couldn't care less about styles, Alien Blue doesn't even show them, all I need is the links and I'm good.

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u/harmonic_oszillator May 04 '17

I use my phone at home too. It's comfortable.

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u/Plonvick May 04 '17

Yes, yes we can

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u/TotesMessenger Apr 25 '17

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u/meapz Apr 27 '17

But r/ooer !!!!! How will I live?

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u/Fiddling_Jesus May 05 '17

oman please to help

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u/The_sad_zebra Apr 25 '17

Am I wrong to think that the admins would almost definitely create a flair system in the mod toolbox? Surely they know how important flair is to most subreddits, and they wouldn't just do away with it.

This might actually be better, because creating a site-wide standard and including it in the Reddit API would allow mobile Reddit clients to better utilize the functionality.

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u/Dynamiklol Meme Police Apr 28 '17

Hard to care about the filters when so many posts each day never have meme in their title or added to the flair. If you try and do "Filter Out Meme" you'll still see plenty of them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '17 edited 3d ago

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '17 edited 3d ago

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u/Dynamiklol Meme Police May 04 '17

There are 14 mods on a sub that, while active, isn't flooded with content every day. I report the fuck out of videos that break any of the various rules, one big problem is that the mod team just gives zero fucks about it. Posts will stay up indefinitely even though it breaks the rules and is reported simply because they feel like it I guess. I can look at top of the week/month/whatever and see posts that I reported that are still just chilling there without a tag or weren't removed.

I understand that mods are always the go-to target for any problems within a sub, but in this case the mods not enforcing their own rules is a problem.

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u/manomow Apr 30 '17

I don't like that they're removing CSS, but to be fair, they are including filters.

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u/stapleherdick May 07 '17

What can we actually do to speak out against this? And where? To whom?

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u/DEEP_THORAX Apr 26 '17

This is your just deserts for banning free expression of memes. they will be free, monday or not. semper memes

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u/989989272 Apr 26 '17

End Memeless Mondays and let the memes free.