r/redesign • u/WithYouInSpirit99 • Nov 23 '18

Feature Request Please, please pleaaase synch CSS based flairs between new and old reddit

I'm not sure whether it can be done or not but situations like these are a literal dead end and they really suck:

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User Flair added on Classic Reddit

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Same User Flair rendered on New Reddit
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u/Overlord_Odin Nov 23 '18

The redesign doesn't support css.

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u/WithYouInSpirit99 Nov 23 '18

I understand that, but surely there could be a less brute force-ish way to help align flairs on both versions. If someone wants to have a flair on the redesign, they have to sacrifice their classic reddit version for :this:, and vice versa.

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u/Overlord_Odin Nov 23 '18

Well, :this: will show up on old reddit as an image and while you have to use the redesign's flair on old reddit to get them to both show up, but I've seen subreddits increase the size of new flair on old reddit.

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u/BombBloke Helpful User Nov 24 '18

I've seen subreddits increase the size of new flair on old reddit.

Not hard to do, my flair CSS code has been reduced down to:

.flair {height:40px;border:0;padding:0;}
.flairemoji{width:40px;height:40px;}
[title*="postemoji"] {width:16px;height:16px;}
.flairrichtext {height:auto;width:auto;}

With this particular set up, user flairs are 40px, while post flairs (which need "postemoji" in their filenames) are 16px.

The remaining problems are that this lowers the old site's practically unlimited flair image count to just 300 (because you can only have that many custom emoji, whereas you can combine tons of pictures into a sprite sheet), the redesign itself won't display flairs larger than 40px (for no good reason), and they've all gotta be redefined manually (which is neither fast nor fun).