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View submission: The web redesign, CSS, and mod tools
I'd like to put a different perspective on this.
Minecraft, a fun little game on its own, became a powerhouse because it empowered users to develop for and make the game better. Each mod making it something more.
Its success is directly attributable to empowering developers and the community.
I think it would be a critical mistake for you to do anything that doesn't empower users/developers even more.
Your April Fools experiements should teach a similar, valuable lesson. The empowerment of groups does enormously powerful things.
The future of reddit should be built around the idea of empowering and encouraging further. It sounds like you're doing 2 things, simplifying(with the misguided belief that its a good thing because more people might find it easier to use) and as a result directly reducing power.
Ask yourselves what you think would happen to Minecraft if Microsoft decided to remove mods as they currently exist and replace them an equivalent widget based platform. Do you think that will improve and help Minecraft?
I don't think I need to answer that question for the reddit team.
I won't try to pretend this is a 1:1 thought experiment. I just think it might help demonstrate any mistaken thinking that could be occurring.
Whatever you decide in the end I'll just say that there's one thing very large crowds will always react badly to - having something taken away. Whatever is put in front of reddit definitely needs to feel like they've gained as opposed to lost.
There's nothing here!