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I'm not sure who to contact about it, but I think the RES team might be interested in implementing a subreddit preview feature (kind of like their media/wiki preview) that users can customize.
For example, when somebody includes a link to a subreddit in their post/comment, RES might add a button next to it that could be pressed to open a preview panel with customizable info about the sub, like:
The advantages are that this would be personally customizable and less obtrusive - the disadvantage is that it would only be available to RES users. I don't know what proportion of Reddit uses RES.
I'm not an expert on coding or anything, but I think it would be pretty easy to inject something like that into HTML and make your own Chrome extension, separate from RES, if you wanted.
Hope that helps!
Comment by sneakpeekbot at 06/02/2017 at 21:17 UTC
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Hmm that's an interesting idea. I think a lot of the people that find the bot useful are mobile users and wouldn't have access to RES or browser plugins. Also, afaik, RES already does do something with linked subreddits by showing the subscriber count and creation date. I'll post it as a feature request for them but I'd have nothing to do with it.