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View submission: Out with 2016, in with 2017
It doesn't read like buck passing to me, more of a "we are admins and even we love/use RES" / "if RES stopped working entirely we'd be crucified and Digg'd".
I think basically they want RES to continue being cool and working and I don't think that much emphasis should be placed on RES. I think his point in bringing it up was just to give a specific example us end users can relate to.
There's probably a bunch of moderator and back-end/admin stuff that would need totally reworking with a redesign and recode or mod/admin stuff that currently doesn't exist because of the way Reddit is coded, but because we don't see those tools etc. or have to sit looking at the code to try and see how to shoehorn a new feature in, spez gave an example of something we can all relate to more i.e. RES.
I'm not a web developer, last year I started learning PHP by myself as a "hobby" after years of just editing other people's scripts to do certain stuff. I was able to build something usable after a month and I was like okay that wasn't worth putting off for years. But then I wanted to do something else with it and realised I should have laid out my MySQL tables differently or something because now the new thing I want to add is a ball ache to put in. We live and learn.
Comment by honestbleeps at 26/01/2017 at 04:39 UTC
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Fwiw, the admins are actually not supposed to use RES.