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View submission: Accessibility Updates to Mod Tools: Part 1
This is what they do every single time. We ask for something and they make promises and that's enough for a lot of people, but too often those promises are extremely vague, get completely mothballed (r/proCSS), or we end up with a feature that looks nothing like we were really actually asking for.
I know that sometimes this is the fault of the ones asking for the change, and it's an extremely common joke in the tech world that customers are idiots and don't know what they're asking for, but time and time again on reddit it's been the same thing. We end up having to develop our own tools and to be completely honest as far as I care, the admins can just swipe them and incorporate them into their site. We're straight up handing them a road map for development.
We're honestly fed up with empty vague promises and failed deliveries. If reddit is committed to only having the one app, that's fine, but we're committed to needing it to be improved with concrete specifics since our tools are being ripped out from under our feet.
In fairness, they have come out with improvements in the past. I personally consider new modmail an improvement. But it seems like it takes a ton of disruption just to get anything. I wasn't a mod when Victoria left, but I remember it well, and this is just the same thing all over again. But because the admins never really managed to restore moderators' faith in them (**edit** and probably because this time around it had much more wide-reaching impact) the disruption this time around is much louder.
There's nothing here!