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View submission: The web redesign, CSS, and mod tools
How about, instead of replacing, you could allow subreddits to keep using the old system for PC users for a few months?
This would make it easier to compare, test, find out what is missing, etc.
So that by the time the change becomes mandatory, all features will be there?
Comment by spez at 21/04/2017 at 16:25 UTC
577 upvotes, 28 direct replies
Yep. We'll keep the current site running for quite a while. We're not planning a violent switch. That would be suicide.
Comment by Sanlear at 21/04/2017 at 16:21 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I think they are from the sound of it:
The existing site and the redesigned site will run in parallel while we make these changes. That is, we don’t have plans for turning off the current site anytime soon. If you depend on functionality that has not yet been transferred to the redesign, you will still have a way to perform those actions.
Comment by Kenblu24 at 21/04/2017 at 21:44 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Why get rid of it at all? It's likely that the features we're trying to preserve now would never have been considered if reddit didn't allow CSS from the beginning.
Comment by adam279 at 26/04/2017 at 02:10 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Dont forget mobile users who stick to a web browser, which has full css support among other things, and can browse every site including reddit.