Comment by honestbleeps on 25/01/2017 at 20:38 UTC*

12 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)

View submission: Out with 2016, in with 2017

I can certainly see it both ways, but the way it is worded I've had several people messaging me asking "WTF is with that?" because they interpreted it the way I interpret it (before my reply was written)...

if he meant it your way, he didn't do a good job of articulating it in my opinion...

Even if you as the RES developer are fine with them breaking RES with site improvements, there are a ton of users who would scream bloody murder if RES stopped working because of some perceived "worthless change" to the site.

they'd scream at us, though, not reddit... almost assuredly...

they've broken RES in the past and this is what happens... and we live with it as a part of the volunteer job, even if it's not fun.

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Comment by ductyl at 25/01/2017 at 20:45 UTC

9 upvotes, 2 direct replies

I feel like "site redesign" might be an occasion where people are upset with the reddit team for "ruining everything", even if it's functionally the same as "altered the way something is rendered that happened to break RES".

But either way, bless you and your team for your wonderful work! :)

Comment by ganlet20 at 25/01/2017 at 22:06 UTC

11 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I read it as almost a compliment that, that they appreciated how important RES is and didn't want to make any half baked changes that may break RES.

I've gotten a little annoyed at reddit's admins in the past for breaking RES and I think they should QA RES with any release and if it breaks then work with you guys to get it fixed prior to release.

I'm not saying that should have to QA all the plugins that interact with reddit but RES is a huge component for majority of their long term user base.