9 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Out with 2016, in with 2017
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 honestbleeps at 25/01/2017 at 20:46 UTC
15 upvotes, 2 direct replies
appreciate the kind words and the perspective...
in all honesty, a site redesign should have a staging site... and if they had one and gave us access to it, we could update RES accordingly and have it not break.
I mean, that sounds like extra work "just to appease RES", but really it's not, because they should have a staging site anyhow for their own internal testing reasons.
Comment by atomic1fire at 26/01/2017 at 05:08 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
TBH I'd be okay with a total revamp provided they weaned people off of RES and existing tools in exchange for feedback on where the revamp could improve. E.g an address like https://reddit.com/v6[1], seperate from the main reddit website until it's stable and useful enough for everyone to use it, with old reddit eventually being phased out.
There's some functionality provided by RES that could probably just be added by the site, for instance a WYSIWYG editor with a plain markdown mode.
^^^Or ^^^Comment ^^^spoilers
I don't think they need to go as fancy as a built in console like RES has, but making the site easier to navigate with a keyboard couldn't hurt, like a shortcut to jump to another subreddit.
Also a big one would be comment previews like how submissions work, but I'm not sure how that would work with the oembed support cause that might get expensive.