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View submission: The web redesign, CSS, and mod tools
* Increase developer speed. Rewrites are a last resort, but Reddit runs on a lot of old code, and development in the current code base is painfully slow.
There's no way in hell that going through and meticulously adding in each functionality that CSS mods have painstakingly worked to create, along with programming options into subreddit settings that would allow for the current level of creativity, would save you any more time than leaving the current default subreddit style alone (or just tinkering with that instead).
Listen to me: you will *kill reddit* if you did this. Do you really believe that letting users have ultimate creativity and control over their communities with minimal oversight is the spirit of reddit, or was your masturbatory write-up of /r/place built on a false premise? You need to sit down and really think about what you think the spirit of this website is, where its value comes from, and think about once-popular websites that tried to sell out what made them unique.
Comment by Quackmatic at 24/04/2017 at 19:31 UTC
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# You need to sit down and really think about what you think the spirit of this website is, where its value comes from, and think about once-popular websites that tried to sell out what made them unique.
/u/spez in case you miss this. What do you think killed slashdot?
Comment by [deleted] at 26/04/2017 at 04:08 UTC
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/u/spez /u/powerlanguage
someone, anyone please
Comment by [deleted] at 25/04/2017 at 21:53 UTC
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/u/spez
Comment by Mynotoar at 03/05/2017 at 20:56 UTC
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This. People need to upvote this comment, they've got the gist of it.
Comment by te-freddy-faz-doctor at 23/04/2017 at 12:54 UTC
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u/spez
Comment by scotbud123 at 25/04/2017 at 18:01 UTC
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/u/spez pls respond