design

#420 Customzing our Reddit presence on /r/Fedora
Closed: Fixed Opened by jflory7.

Closed: Fixed
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  • What's your deadline (could be date, could be Fedora release milestone)
  • There is no set deadline on when this has to be done, but sooner than later is always preferred.

  • Maybe a good tentative deadline is by the Fedora 24 release, when we will have a large influx of traffic to the subreddit?

  • Who's the developer writing the code (IRC nick + email + wiki profile page URL)

  • Not decided.

  • I'm submitting this ticket because I noticed /u/ryanlerch sent modmail to the moderators of /r/Fedora many months ago about possibly pursuing this as a project. Depending on his availability, he might be interested to take this on.

  • If you can, please provide us with example URLs of web designs that are similar to the result you're looking for

  • Good examples are many other common Linux subreddits. The /r/Ubuntu subreddit is a good example of what is possible, and a few others are linked below.
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/ (I personally love the design of this subreddit)

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/ (another modern + flat UI)

  • What type of web project is this?

  • As far as I know, customizing a subreddit is all CSS, confirmation needed.

  • Wireframes or mockups for a website / web application

  • None at the moment…

  • Is this for a new or existing site (if existing, provide URL)? Do you need CSS/HTML for the design?

  • Existing. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/

  • CSS.

  • Information design diagrams and flow charts for planning or reorganizing a web site / app

  • N/A

  • Provide a link to the theming documentation if available

  • https://www.reddit.com/wiki/styling

  • https://howtoreddit.wordpress.com/subreddits/create-your-own/customizing-your-subreddit/ (unofficial)

  • Other information

  • I was recently promoted as a subreddit moderator by ianweller (the only other active moderator on the subreddit). To gain privileges to actually editing the stylesheets for the subreddit, either one of us could promote a member of the Design Team as a moderator of /r/Fedora to deploy the changes.
  • I think this would be an awesome project for us to pursue, although it is worth noting that our subreddit is an '''unofficial''' Fedora site, similar to the Fedora Forums. However, it is a well-trafficked site representing our project, and having an attractive and modern design can help positively represent Fedora among current and potential users looking to learn more about Fedora, ask questions, or anything else regarding Fedora.

Decided to play around with an old subreddit I still have access to.

[[Image(http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=98279)]]

I'm happy to take this ticket unless ryanlerch wants it?

Replying to [comment:1 mciahdenn]:

Decided to play around with an old subreddit I still have access to.

I'm happy to take this ticket unless ryanlerch wants it?
I personally think this looks awesome!! I could see this working very well as an awesome re-design. I also wonder if we should share the link with the subreddit to get feedback on the design? Not sure if that will attract the trolls, though…

Replying to [comment:2 jflory7]:

Replying to [comment:1 mciahdenn]:

Decided to play around with an old subreddit I still have access to.

I'm happy to take this ticket unless ryanlerch wants it?
I personally think this looks awesome!! I could see this working very well as an awesome re-design. I also wonder if we should share the link with the subreddit to get feedback on the design? Not sure if that will attract the trolls, though…

https://www.reddit.com/r/KMI/ Probably quite a few more things I could tweak still. Ignore the footer.

Fixed the footer and submit page.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KMI/

Replying to [comment:4 mciahdenn]:

Fixed the footer and submit page.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KMI/
Looks good to me so far. My only comment of suggestion is maybe changing the gold Reddit alien to the Fedora logo? It feels a little bit out of place to me with the rest of the theme.

Otherwise, this looks awesome to me. I think it might also be good to have it reviewed at the weekly Design Team meeting as well before final deployment. Thanks for working on this, Micah!!

Changed the reddit logo. Feedback from the meeting was positive.

I've attached the images and CSS. Ping me if you have any issues with it.

Replying to [comment:6 mciahdenn]:

Changed the reddit logo. Feedback from the meeting was positive.

I've attached the images and CSS. Ping me if you have any issues with it.
I actually just finished reading the logs right before I opened the ticket -- woohoo! I'm going to work on adding the changes today, refresh a little later and your design should be up. :) I'm going to keep the ticket open until I have our subreddit running with the theme. I also plan to ask for a little feedback too and see what our active Redditors think too.

Thanks so much for working on this so quickly, Micah!! You seriously rock.

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fedora_reddit.zip

Hi Micah,

Firstly, the overall response to redesign has been overwhelmingly positive. People love it! :)

Someone pointed out an issue with the unwrapped "My subreddits" box and how it [https://i.imgur.com/HDNxaI8.png overlays the comment box]. Seems like a minor issue but would be nice to fix.

[https://i.imgur.com/HDNxaI8.png Screenshot here, too big to embed in ticket]

Replying to [comment:10 jflory7]:

Hi Micah,

Firstly, the overall response to redesign has been overwhelmingly positive. People love it! :)

Someone pointed out an issue with the unwrapped "My subreddits" box and how it [https://i.imgur.com/HDNxaI8.png overlays the comment box]. Seems like a minor issue but would be nice to fix.

[https://i.imgur.com/HDNxaI8.png Screenshot here, too big to embed in ticket]

Could you add,

{{{
.commentarea .usertext-edit textarea { z-index: 0; }
}}}
to the CSS.

Replying to [comment:11 mciahdenn]:

Could you add,

{{{
.commentarea .usertext-edit textarea { z-index: 0; }
}}}
to the CSS.

Added, waiting for feedback (I'm not subscribed to enough subreddits to test it). :P

Closing ticket.

Overall, very positive feedback to the new theme. Micah put the source for the style on [https://github.com/micahdenn/fedora-reddit_theme GitHub] and this has been shared with participants in the subreddit. For now, we will aim to use the GitHub issue tracker for smaller adjustments or changes, as well as for PRs by anyone on the community.

Thanks, Micah!!
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