Comment by [deleted] on 24/04/2017 at 23:20 UTC

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View submission: With the news of Reddit potentially overhauling its CSS method of subreddit styling in the near future, maybe now would be a good time to express appreciation for the work r/stevenuniverse's mod team has done to make this a pretty sub

Please help this poor soul, what is CSS?

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Comment by Grefyrvos at 24/04/2017 at 23:33 UTC

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CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It's used on web platforms as a way to apply changes to websites (HTML or other alternatives) ranging from how boxes around content look, to fonts and colors, etc. It offers a lot of flexibility in design while also letting designers not have to duplicate chunks of formatting that they want to apply to multiple sections of content by creating one or more styles and applying them to the content.

You can learn more here: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp

Comment by AlexB9598W at 24/04/2017 at 23:24 UTC

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I'm sure someone with more knowledge can explain this better, but my understand is it's a simpler form of programming language that reddit uses and allows moderators to customize their subreddits in many ways. The reason there's this hullabaloo is that reddit admins are considering replacing that system with a, in their eyes, simpler method of giving the moderators a series of options for customization that are mobile-friendly, which CSS is not. However, because CSS is so flexible and many redditors still use desktop, people are worried that this will make many subreddits look very similar and remove personality from the site.