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View submission: The web redesign, CSS, and mod tools
It's 2017; there hasn't been a need for separate mobile websites since IE8.
Pretty sure this change is to gain visual parity in the mobile apps, not the mobile website. All of your points are valid, but I don't think the reddit devs want to write a custom CSS parser to enable personalization in their mobile apps.
Comment by [deleted] at 22/04/2017 at 01:17 UTC*
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I don't think the reddit devs want to write a custom CSS parser to enable personalization in their mobile apps.
They don't want to spend the money to. That's literally the entire reason.
But you know what, there's an entire library for CSS parsing on Android[1] and iOS[2] (or [NimbusCSS] (http://docs.nimbuskit.info/NimbusCSS.html[3])).
1: http://cssparser.sourceforge.net/
2: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/libcss/
3: http://docs.nimbuskit.info/NimbusCSS.html
Comment by [deleted] at 22/04/2017 at 00:49 UTC
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Comment by karl_w_w at 22/04/2017 at 14:08 UTC
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Well to be quite honest the mobile apps can go fuck themselves. The desktop site is by far the best experience on mobile devices anyway, if the app developers can't be bothered to support one of Reddit's best features then it's not up to Reddit to break that feature for them.