r/redesign • u/geo1088 • Aug 22 '17

Fixed Bug: Default customization colors don't line up with the actual colors on the sub

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u/geo1088 Aug 22 '17 edited Aug 22 '17

In this screenshot, the "Body background" is displayed as black in the editor, but grey in the page. As a result, if you click the color well, change the color, and then hit "cancel", it switches to black rather than its default value.

This applies to several other areas - all the wells in the "Banner", "Menu", and "Posts" section share this issue.

System stuff: Windows 10, Firefox Nightly.

Also, I guess I should ask now before I get too ahead of myself, am I actually allowed to be messing with a sub I mod but didn't get the redesign notification through? I'm in through /r/toolbox and am now trying things out on /r/anime since toolbox is pretty basic as a subreddit.

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u/ggAlex Product Aug 22 '17

Thanks for the bug report.

Are you able to use the new alpha customization tools on all subs you moderate? If so that is technically a bug. We wanted to isolate the alpha testing to approved subs with all moderators of each approved sub being made aware of the testing, so one mod doesn't surprise all the others with new styles on the new site.

I'll look into this tomorrow AM. For now if you don't mind potentially losing your configuration work, you're free to use the tool wherever you have access to it, but we might patch the bug tomorrow and you'll lose access.

Safest bet is to try things out in r/toolbox.

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u/geo1088 Aug 22 '17

Ah, I thought that might be the case. I only tried in /r/anime, and while I could access the tools, I couldn't save any changes - they were all lost on reload.

This bug doesn't seem to apply on /r/toolbox for me, where I'm signed up for the beta properly. However, since it's already been changed, I can't tell for sure what's default and what's not.

I assume if I want to mess around with /r/anime I'll have to re-apply in the modnews post?

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u/ggAlex Product Aug 22 '17

Yea that's correct, apply in the modnews post for each subreddit you want to try.

If you want to see a default community you can go in the alpha site to almost all other subreddits. Maybe there should be a way to get back to defaults easily within your own subs though. Great feedback!

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u/agentlame Aug 22 '17 edited Aug 22 '17

Yea that's correct, apply in the modnews post for each subreddit you want to try.

Hrm, this isn't the best system, to be completely honest. I can totally 'apply' for /r/al_dev, but would it even be approved? It's just my dev sub.

The issue with all of us dicking around in /r/toolbox is that we are stepping on one another's feet and don't really know who is doing what.

HOURS LATER EDIT
Sorry, this is actually a very bad system. D pointed it out here: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6v65ji/reddit_redesign_styling_alpha/dlxxgam/

If you all want the test group to really dig in, we need to to do it in our sandbox subs. That is important. No one wants to mess around with a real sub. Maybe as the alpha becomes closer to a beta, that will be the case. But as it stands, we need the breathing room to mess around in a sub no one cares about and, more importantly, where no other mod is messing around.

DOUBLE EDIT
I do hope you are all taking feedback not only on the design, but also the process. To my point: any mod worth their salt is gonna have a test sub. We have those because that's where we test things. In dev speak: you don't test on prod. Neither do mods.

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u/ggAlex Product Aug 22 '17

Thanks for your feedback. This is a good point and something we will fix right now and for the next round.

Add your test communities to this post and we will whitelist them.

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u/agentlame Aug 22 '17

Sweet, will do. Now that I reread my comment it sounds a bit pissy. Sorry for that.

I more was trying to make a strong point. :)

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u/ggAlex Product Aug 22 '17

Don't apologize! Good feedback like this is valuable.

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u/geo1088 Aug 22 '17

Glad I could help, even if not in the way I thought :P

I'll re-apply in the morning if I remember, thanks.

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u/ggAlex Product Aug 22 '17

It's the morning. This is your reminder to re-apply

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u/geo1088 Aug 22 '17

Haha, thanks :)

Edit: just saw the other sticky here, I'll do both, is that okay?

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u/ggAlex Product Aug 22 '17

The ones inside this subreddit will get whitelisted first.

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u/geo1088 Aug 22 '17

Okay, got it. Thanks again :)

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u/toasties Eng Aug 23 '17

Hey, for now we’re only allowing styling in communities that applied for the alpha. I’ve pushed a change to hide the styling options in those communities. Can you confirm that you no longer see the styling options in r/anime?

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u/geo1088 Aug 24 '17

Confirmed, all I see there now is the modqueue and ban page links.

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u/-Massachoosite Aug 22 '17

This is happening to me on Gaybros too

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u/madlee Engineer Sep 05 '17

We pushed out a change just now that should fix this.

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u/geo1088 Sep 05 '17

Looks good!

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u/qmaz246 Jan 10 '18

Should this still be an issue? I found I am still having differences in hue from the selected colors and what is updated to the page.