Hey /r/art! The admins will be changing the appearance of subreddits soon. We'd like to talk with you about CSS, and what they have in store for subreddit design and appearance in the coming future. - Art

Hey /r/art! The admins will be changing the appearance of subreddits soon. We'd like to talk with you about CSS, and what they have in store for subreddit design and appearance in the coming future.
Snake, 20x26cm, hand cut paper
Frustration, Water color, Udesh Pandey, 8×6
Maailmankartta, watercolor, 21x25
Selfie no.3, oil on board, 9x12
Sleeping Girl, Maryam Ashkanian, Embroidered Pillow, 2014
Swamp Deer, Jonna Scandy, Watercolor Art, 2016
"Street Reflections" oil on canvas, Ramandip Singh, 20"x20"
Vigilant, watercolor, 16x23 cm
Test-tube Babies, Bojana Volas, Oil on canvas, 2017
Pink Morning, Digital, 898x1192px
"Far, far away Soria Moria Palace shimmered like Gold", Theodor Kittelsen, oil on canvas, 1900
Of Night" 18x24 oils
"Just before the discovery of the ridable ostriches", Oil on canvas, 60x80cm
"2 Years", Acrylic on canvas, 18x24
So tame my flesh And fix my eyes", watercolor pencils/point88, 21x29cm
Fro, pen and ink, A3
Orbit by Wahndur, Digital, 2017
"Cubes", Lernert & Sander, various foods, 2015
pop (t)art, acrylic, 24x48
Thought, Ink, 11"14"
"Void", Charcoal On A3 Moleskine.
After Hours, Digital art, (1462x2000)

Hey /r/art! The admins will be changing the appearance of subreddits soon. We'd like to talk with you about CSS, and what they have in store for subreddit design and appearance in the coming future.

Posted: 01 May 2017 03:48 AM PDT

Hello!

So /r/art will be changing, along with all subreddits and the entire website, fairly soon. Admins will be wiping out a major feature beloved by many, and replacing it with a standardized system of customization. Here's their announcement, and here's what we're guessing we're going to get..

So far, the administrators have been extremely tight-lipped about what they're planning.

This makes us very nervous!

So far all we know is that the replacement for CSS is going to be something extremely simple and cookie cutter. One of their voiced goals is to make it "more accessible". This is frightening to a ton of moderators because many subreddits heavily rely on CSS to improve the functionality of their sub, because CSS isn't just about themes! Subreddits do all kinds of stuff for their subscribers using CSS.

As an example:

Right now, if you subscribe to /r/wholesomememes, and you really dislike their meta submissions, you can filter them out so that you never see them. All you have to do is go here:

https://nm.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/

Instead of here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/

And all the meta submissions disappear. There is a similar filter for comics, for those who don't like them. Many subscribers swear by these filters.

This type of feature, along with many others, is in danger of being wiped out and replaced with some cookie cutter "Easy-Bake Subreddit" decorations if we don't stand up for ourselves.

It would be a tragedy to see /r/art turned into something hideous! Also we stand in support of our friends who do depend more heavily on CSS, so we are declaring that we are in favor of CSS and /r/ProCSS!

So.... What can I do? I'm just a redditor here to check out cat gifs and dank memes.

See here!

Your support can make a difference.

We're using /r/ProCSS as a platform to work with the administrators so as to voice our concerns and ideally help guide the coming system so that they're not just dropping something hideous onto our lap. Check out our mission statement. Please consider paying a visit. Whether you love CSS, hate it, or even if you dont care very much - we have dank memes: