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View submission: The web redesign, CSS, and mod tools
Small dissenting opinion here.
For the last six months I've had subreddit CSS turned off completely, and I've replaced reddit's default styling with my own custom version of naut which effectively makes the site night mode always, completely consistent across every sub, and very easy on the eyes. It's fundamentally changed the way I interact with reddit, and for the better I think.
99% of the time, custom CSS just seems to get in the way of the actual content and makes it harder to quickly parse what's going on, without providing any tangible benefit at all.
Very often, whoever designed a sub's stylesheet hasn't properly accounted for smaller screens or larger zooms leading to all sorts of annoying problems like flair wrapping in awkward places or the sidebar obscuring expanded images or poor contrast choices making things harder to read.
Obviously there are many exceptions to those issues, and I'm not for one second suggesting that just because I personally find custom CSS annoying that everyone should feel the same way, I'm just saying that perhaps it isn't the end of the world if subreddits can no longer be styled. The fundamental way the site operates won't change and, other than in a few very specific instances, nothing absolutely irreplaceable would be lost.
There's nothing here!