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View submission: Updates to Community Page Design on Desktop
We now show a display name for your subreddit
This is a great idea, especially for communities that don't like the upper or lowercase used in the name.
Subreddit name, subreddit icon, and “Join” button have been moved from the sidebar to the top of the page
Why did you remove the title color from the sidebar widgets? Did you also remove any other sidebar styling too? Some of our communities used those to help break up colors between the widgets and background.
Also, what about when a post is loaded in the lightbox? I hope the name is back in the sidebar again. I'm not sure the test link shows that correctly because the opened post doesn't append the test URL. However, when you load the post in a separate tab with that link, it does show it the old way.
Pinned posts now show in a more compact way at the top of the page
Your screenshots make it appear we can style sticky post differently than regular, but I think those are done via special sticky flairs which won't a viable workaround for some communities. Will we be able to create a separate styling that's automatically applied when a post is stickied?
There is now a post composer unit at the top of the feed
I like it. Much better spot for people to find how to create posts in the feed is right above the feed. That said, I'm glad you kept it in the sidebar too because users who are used to it there would get confused too.
We are adding the ability to filter the feed using flairs!
This is really cool, but a possible pitfall is that some communities apply custom text to specific flairs. So, maybe "Rumor" or "Not True" or whatever else the mods feel they need to let users know about. This means the filter will shows those filters as selectable, finding only that one match, right? Wouldn't it be better to filter on flair templates?
Also, flair filtering would be 100 times more useful if we could multi-select flairs and also exclude flairs.
Comment by mjmayank at 17/12/2019 at 19:44 UTC
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Why did you remove the title color from the sidebar widgets
These are gone in the preview link, but will be added back when we roll out the full experience. As you can see in the screenshot, the colors are still there.
Your screenshots make it appear we can style sticky post differently than regular, but I think those are done via special sticky flairs which won't a viable workaround for some communities
This is based on the existing custom post styles feature. We didn't make any changes to this. Could you elaborate on what the limitations are?
Thanks for the other feedback as well! It sounds consistent with things over users in the thread have mentioned.