If you have Stylish (for Firefox or Chrome), go to this link and install this UserStyle:
http://userstyles.org/styles/85484/reddit-com-r-nfl-flair
Once installed, you can turn off the "Use subreddit style" option in Reddit Enhancement Suite (see the sidebar) and the flair logos will still show up next to usernames.
This is a work in progress.
Posted Apr 3, 2013, 12:38 PM UTC · edited
Look I appreciate what the mods are doing, trying to make the subreddit better, but it seems the general consensus is they missed the mark pretty badly here.
If I have to install 2 different extensions just to enjoy the subreddit, isn't that defeating the purpose?
I do a lot of the CSS at r/nba and here are my 2 cents:
The redesign is extremely clean. Maybe too clean, if there is such a thing.
The font(Helvetica/Arial) is more pleasing aesthetically, but difficult to adjust as the rest of reddit uses Verdana. It looks more readable today than yesterday, but I think that's because font size was upped.
The color scheme is unoffensive, but bland and boring. Too much white/grey and black. Needs more color. Hovering on links gives black/very dark blue ffs. How does that make any sense?
Dark grey comment highlight for RES users doesn't look good. Grey is not an intuitive color for highlighting something, which is why very light blue is used on r/nba.
On the sidebar, where there were 3 buttons side-by-side, they are stacked, using up a lot of vertical space, which is already limited.
All the white-space and padding uses up valuable vertical space.
Save/Cancel buttons made larger. This might improve usability, but now you sacrifice aesthetic there. Might be a fair trade-off, haven't decided yet.
Logo looks straight up like google docs. Google docs is a word processor app. This is a professional football subreddit. Cognitive dissonance galore.
The redesigned menu/sticky bar is pretty slick.
edit:
r/nba Looks really nice.
Thanks. Our readers are sometimes a bit more hostile towards the mods than you guys over here, so we're forced to make our changes pretty slowly and incrementally.
That just seems like the best way to go about it. I personally feel like they really swung for the fences here but fouled off. I like that they're trying to make it better and easier for us but this is a huge miss.
I like the color coded posts and the banner up top for team subreddits but the rest makes it look less like anything related to the NFL.
Enh, not really.
But seriously r/TurnerJ5isatyrant
r/nba is nice if you like sub-reddits that remind you of geocities. The header is blasphemy in terms of design and aesthetics.
Would you care to elaborate? I think its pretty appropriate for a basketball related site.
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When I went on the sub for the first time, I thought the layout was a nfl google site leftover from April fools day.
For me I need to install RES to enjoy reddit to begin with, so this is really only one extra.
Right, but if most users dislike it and many are using extensions to return it to the default reddit style, that defeats the purpose of a custom style and the new style has failed.
Never said otherwise, just saying that RES is not likely an additional download for most people.
i would stake my reputation as guy-who-makes-random-guesses-on-the-internet and guess that the vast majority of reddit visitors do not have res installed
I've had RES installed for a looooong time. I consider it essential for Redditing (/r/nfl or otherwise) while on a PC.
Adding an additional extension to that is a low-"cost" alternative (for me) to the new r/nfl theme.
I have RES as well. My point is that if people feel the need to do that anyway, the style has totally failed to meet its purpose.
This is great, thank you!
When I first installed, it was affecting the tags in other subreddits. [Although I did enjoy the Cardinals flair in r/askhistorians](http://i.imgur.com/KFkvTmQ.jpg), it's a quick fix to apply the style to r/nfl only.
When you click on the add-in, there's an option to edit. Click on "specify" button, then choose "URLs starting with" and type in "www.reddit.com/r/nfl". Then click "save" (at left).
Just in case anyone else here didn't figure that out right way like me!
Thanks, I just updated it on userstyles.org to be more restrictive.
Awesome. This helps a lot. It's not a permanent fix, since you still get the subreddit style for a few seconds every time you click a link but it's good enough for now.
Thanks!
Yeah, nothing I can do about the flash of old style, unfortunately. It'll be less of a problem on smaller pages.
I'm not complaining, this is way better than using the subreddit style as is.
I think this is the best solution.
Great job! I was researching how to do this myself.
Brilliant. So far working without a hitch.
I love this. ^^Thank ^^you
I love the new design. It's probably the best on reddit.
It helps but I would still like to have the old style back. The new one sucks in usability.
I agree. You have the top comment. I cannot even see it without scrolling down. On other subreddits I can see 4-5 comments at a time without scrolling down.
I like what they were trying to do with the aesthetics, but the spacing is abysmal. I hope they fix it.
he has the top comment in a thread that will attract people who don't like the new style; it's less indicative than you might think.
i like the new style. definitely still needs a fair bit of tweaking, but i'm willing to bet that they'll hammer it out before too long - just look at the amount of changes/fixes they've pushed in the last day.
It has twice to 3 times the empty space of most themes. It needs to be tightened in every aspect. The spacing is intolerable.
yeah, it needs tweaking, especially in regard to spacing. can't argue that. for example, the line spacing in this post kind of makes my head swim (paragraph break is only nominally bigger than the rather large line break), and builds up a lot of unnecessary empty space.
i think once they settle on fonts/font sizes, they'll be able to make drastic improvements to line breaks and other things that directly contribute to white-space buildup, but they can't get too aggressive and put the cart before the horse, is all. there are definitely some things they could do now (like getting rid of the 'important links' bar, which just seems like a waste of space/duplication of the sidebar to me), but whatever.
i guess we'll see.
God forbid you have to... gulp... scroll.
God forbid we design a theme that uses screen real estate efficiently to increase user friendliness.
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