Why is no one using CSS to make their magazine’s visual appearances more unique? That was the main draw of old Reddit for me.
(I mean I am, but that is why I asked)
So you’d need mods who (1) came over, (2) believe in the platform, (3) believe in the instance, (4) want to do custom CSS, (5) know how to do custom CSS, (6) are willing to put for the effort for a readership that’s still fairly small, and (7) feel that the odds of a change that will break their CSS are low.
That’s a tall stack of filters, and you may not have a lot of company yet on the other side of it. /m/neverwinternights looks really nice, though. Well done!
Come on folks, where’s that MySpace/Xanga/Geocities spirit‽ Maybe younger folks here weren’t active online at that time. Sad we’ve lost that a bit online. Lots of people learned lots of stuff to make their pages look cool.
Oh jeebus my first website online was Xanga, and I copied the shit out of code back then to bling it up
Codecademy can be good if you are just starting out like the first time trying CSS. Probably would wanna do the lessons on html and then CSS but ya. I took already computer science course in school (only intro course yet bc is summer now) and there can teach more stuff, but before then i already did some lessons on codecademy and it helped to have context for the beginning parts of the class.
Yeah, that’s gonna be difficult. Lol I want to do it, but it’s a tall ask to work full-time, take care of my own personal stuff, hobbies, and then also learn basic HTML and CSS just do decorate a landing page for a forum.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to do it. It’s just far down on the priority list and will probably be there for the foreseeable future. Would absolutely welcome anyone to help with it though! Currently best I can do is an icon lol
I started m/WNC and I have no idea what a CSS is . On top of that I post things to the magazine and they never show up. I have posted like 3 things today and a few over the last few days and the last thing I have that showed up is like 4 days ago. I don’t know what I am doing wrong.
I’m the type to tick the ‘Ignore custom css’ checkbox, so obviously not everybody’s interested in that feature.
Oh no, that doesn’t exist here yet. I was referring to the option in old reddit
I’m in the same boat. So I just threw together a quick userscript which removes custom CSS on magazines:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469581-kbin-social-remove-custom-styles
You’ll need Greasemonkey, Tampermonkey (browser addons) or similar to install the script.
I appreciate you putting in the effort, but it looks kinda scuffed on mobile
If I may suggest an alternative:
Rather than, “Why is no one…”
…instead why don’t you make an easy to follow tutorial and post an article, “THIS is how you can decorate your magazine using CSS…”
If your goal is to have a more beautiful user experience for all who browse the second would seem more effective at achieving that goal.
If your goal is to humble brag and position your magazine (and coding skills) as superior to those of other mag mods, the first phrasing is the superior way to go about that.
I very much doubt your intent was to talk down to anyone, however, so I would very much advocate your writing up a CSS guide in pursuit of what I presume to be your goals (a vibrant and beautiful library of magazines here on kbin).
Your magazine is very pretty and I commend you for your decorative and coding skills.
I don’t know CSS. I took the automatically generated background CSS (under appearance) & fed it into ChatGTP & told it how I wanted it to look. After a little trial & error to get that right, I tweaked the color codes till I liked them. That’s pretty much it.
I definitely wasn’t trying to talk down to anyone.
A majority can’t even be bothered to post anything in their magazines.