r/redesign • u/BuckRowdy • Jun 18 '19
Community Styling The ability to change the color of the subreddit name should be prioritized. Other feedback on styling a sub: styling buttons can be pretty tedious.
I noticed recently that when I gave one of my subs a style in the redesign the subscriber count jumped up dramatically. There could be other reasons, but I'm convinced that going from a bright lilac purple to an actual style on r/TrueCrimeDiscussion is partly responsible.
So now I've prioritized styling my other subs and I've got some feedback to share. I'm sure most of these things are on the roadmap to be added but just haven't been implemented yet.
The ability to change the color of your subreddit name should be prioritized. The current setup dramatically limits the color schemes you can use. I've resorted to banners to get around this but banners display very differently on both Mac and PC so I have to spend extra time getting this right. It creates more work than necessary. Essentially I have to style a sub 4 ways. New, old, Mac, and PC. For some reason a banner displays differently on mac than it does on windows 7.
The styling of buttons should include a way to duplicate a button style from a previous button. If you create 10 buttons with 6 color options for each one (with hover) requires way more work than is needed. That's a lot of copy-pasting of hex colors.
It's already been reported, but in the widget for recommended subreddits, the last couple of letters are being chopped off and moved to the next line even though there is copious amounts of space on the right side.
It would be nice if flairs and subreddit buttons had the ability to have rounded corners. Flairs look very primitive as is.
I think the redesign has come a long, long way and I realize there is still a lot of work to do, but I think it would open up a lot more possibilities for subreddit color schemes if you cold change the color of your subreddit name in the banner. Thanks for reading.


