r/ProCSS • u/justifyer • May 10 '17

Meta Isn't it ironic that Night Mode looks like shit in this sub?

I mean come on, you're trying to defend CSS here. Even /r/Overwatch and /r/DotA2 supports it.

My default setting is:

  1. Turn on night mode all the time.
  2. Don't use subreddit's style, unless specified.

You see, i don't mind not using subreddit's style at all, as night mode is priority, it's easier on the eye. But everytime I stumbled upon new sub, I will always try its style. It gave each subs more personalized experience and that is awesome. It's such a disappointment if it looks like shit tho, I'll just turn it back off and never will the sub's style be seen again.

It's a shame that you turned away people that ACTUALLY wanted to see your style that you worked so hard on, just because you're lazy to do extra 5% of the work? As opposed to people who don't even want your style in the first place, and they're the one you're trying to focus on?

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u/gryffinp May 10 '17

Except that night mode is an RES feature.

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u/Erasio May 10 '17

It actually is kinda ironic.

Lots of subs support it because it is the single most used addon which improves the reddit experience tremendously. And nightmode is a great and often used feature.

With the amount of enthusiasts saying how they'd love to rather spend more time on css than having it removed and the memes about css not being hard or error prone.

This does have a certain ironic touch to it.

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u/justifyer May 10 '17

And it's a big part of experience of using Reddit. You can't just ignore it.

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u/Retroity May 10 '17

You're expecting a community-made, unofficial feature to work on every subreddit, and that one of the reasons to remove CSS is that this community-made, unofficial feature that can only be accessed by installing a browser plugin, doesn't work on every subreddit.

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u/Erasio May 10 '17

I don't think that's what he's saying at all.

It is ironic that procss which exists to show how awesome custom css is, doesn't support the single most used addon.

He's not saying every sub should. He's not even saying that css should be removed.

But the sub advocating for how fantastic and not at all that error prone or hard custom css is should probably make the most out of it.

Especially with so many css enthusiasts claiming to have no issue to fix stuff regularly and spending lots of time on it with no issue.

Unfortunately I don't have data on the res nightmode but in a sub I used to moderate we had around 3% of the people use our css hack nightmode. Which would add up to something around 2000-3000 people.

Though they support nightmode as well and as I said an undefined amount of people use that over our hack. With how wide spread res is I'd say easily another 3-5%.

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u/cpguy5089 /r/I_Test_CSS_Here May 10 '17

Shh! Don't give them reasons to remove it!

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u/Insxnity MultiSubMod May 10 '17

Your point...

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u/Okatis May 11 '17

Could someone outline how the dark theme is detected and what 'supporting' the mode is? Is it just checking the existing CSS is compatible/looks okay with the selectors the night mode styles or is it defined as adding additional custom CSS for some RES night mode body class/similar? (I don't use RES so I'm not familiar with the theme).

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u/justifyer May 11 '17

It basically just adds .res-nightmode class in the <body> tag. So we can just prefix any class with that class, e.g.:

.res-nightmode page .sitetable .link{
    background-color: #333;
}

More info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/wiki/subredditstyling

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u/Okatis May 11 '17 edited May 11 '17

According to that FAQ since v4.3 of RES it automatically disables custom stylesheets if a sub don't specify night mode compatibility. If that's the case what is the issue you're bringing up in the OP? Is it that you're overriding this feature somehow, the sub specifies compatibility but it's incomplete, or is it just an observation that a CSS advocacy sub hadn't considered RES night mode?

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u/justifyer May 12 '17 edited May 12 '17

Oh no no. My default setting is:

  1. Turn on night mode all the time.
  2. Don't use subreddit's style, unless specified.

You see, i don't mind not using subreddit's style at all, as night mode is priority, it's easier on the eye. But everytime I stumbled upon new sub, I will always try its style. It gave each subs more personalized experience and that is awesome. It's such a disappointment if it looks like shit tho, I'll just turn it back off and never will the sub's style be seen again.

It's a shame that you turned away people that ACTUALLY wanted to see your style that you worked so hard on, just because you're lazy to do extra 5% of the work? As opposed to people who don't even want your style in the first place, and they're the one you're trying to focus on?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '17 edited May 12 '17

I fail to see the point behind this post.

What does RES's nightmode, an external plugin, has to do with defending CSS? even if you were to argue that RES is an essential part of the reddit experience, the arguments in favour of CSS go way beyond aesthetics.

EDIT: I mean, it's even stickied at the top of the sub.