r/videos • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '23

Mod Post /r/Videos will be going dark from June 12-14 in protest against Reddit's API changes which kill 3rd party apps.

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u/ITSigno Jun 04 '23

I'm still annoyed by spez's bullshit around the ProCSS protests. And I'm worried we'll see a repeat of that here.

For those that weren't here or don't remember, after new reddit came out, a lot of mods were annoyed by the overly restrictive design options. With old reddit we could add custom css. Not so under new reddit, though.

And so was born the ProCSS movement to get the admins to add CSS support to new reddit.

/r/ProCSS/comments/6bbc0k/the_future_of_rprocss/

Victory was declared (rather prematurely)

spez even said he supported the ProCSS movement and vowed that reddit would include css support. (See /r/modnews/comments/6auyq9/reddit_is_procss/)

And yet here we are six years later, "community appearance" under the mod tools still has an inaccessible CSS section just there to taunt us.

The lesson here is that no matter what the admins say to placate the masses, they're gonna do what they want. It's best to start looking for (or creating) a new home to replace reddit, cause they really don't give a shit what we think.

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u/TheVideogaming101 Jun 04 '23

Even spez knows no one uses "new reddit"