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View submission: Testing a new concept with select subreddit partners
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Reddit thrives on the fact that its community can do whatever it want within reason. These "changes" further the gap between old Reddit and new Reddit and blur the lines between whether we are or aren't getting CSS on new Reddit.
No, Reddit, the coloring of my subreddit is not CSS.
I check back every so often to that community appearance tab to see if there's updates on the CSS tab (there's not) or maybe you released an announcement saying it's in the works (it's not).
When a corporation promises that it'll support the creators/the consumers first, I want to see change. This is the same change that you've made.
There's a good reason why you have a 47% downvoted rate on this post. You've alienated features that were in old Reddit to begin with. Don't believe me?
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Ability to upload and stream up to HD quality video
Sure, this isn't an old Reddit thing, but the "upload" portion gets me. Are you not aware of Streamable or YouTube?
Video file limits doubled (we are working out the details on duration and file size)
See above. I have *barely* had an issue with Reddit's upload limits, except in the stylesheet, which you continue to ignore. 500 KB for an image is way too little.
Inline GIFs in comments
This can be done using the Reddit Enhancement Suite. Sure, you have to click the button to view it inline, but that can *sometimes* be better than being forced to watch Reddit slow to a crawl on slow Internet because some jackass made a 20-second-GIF.
New first-party Snoo Emojis (aka ‘Snoomojis’)
We literally have this with the work of /r/PartyParrot's emoji CSS (godspeed). It wouldn't take long for me to make Snoomojis on old Reddit, and for ***free***.
Recognize power-up payers in a list of supporters
See above if it's a list on the sidebar. Hell, this can even be done on new Reddit (to a degree).
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Reddit's not a streaming/video uploading website. It's a social media link/post aggregator. I'm starting to think that this is an out of season April Fool's joke.
You have made this as vague as possible, ignored the fact that putting a bunch of suckups on a billboard will have people throw a lynch mob at those people for donating to a subreddit with no benefit, and you've ignored the obvious fact that the billboard can easily be defaced by anyone with a stiff pocket and a marketing budget with no way to stop it.
You have ignored the smaller person on Reddit for yet another time with these changes that serve to benefit the subreddits at the top. Gating features on Reddit is a shitty thing to do, and I wouldn't be surprised if you start gating the API licenses.
Have you even talked to moderators about this? How does this improve their experience? How does this make moderating easier? We need actual tools and services to moderate and you're off dawdling about, thinking how great it would be to be a Discord clone and how much Discord makes.
We have no transparency to who is running the department behind this, whether or not they have any experience on this website, and whether or not your changes are, y'know, actually helpful?
Why have you ignored the second-most critical component on Reddit: Moderators? This is on /r/modnews. I would like to have some more respect from a company being funded by the hour. Referring to subreddit moderators as "partners" doesn't help either. We are volunteers, not business partners for you to fuck with.
Everyone here knows your motivations are to make money and to abuse Redditors with a large amount in the bank for profit.
Reddit has become a pay-to-win video game with pornography, and I'm sick of it.
There's nothing here!