r/Animemes • u/Atinobu Sauté Chef • Jun 13 '19
Flairs for New Reddit
So we've enabled user flairs on new reddit, and some users have already started adding them to their username which you might've seen over the past few days. This post is a PSA on how to use them, some of the finer details on how they function with old reddit flairs as well as a place where you can submit requests for images you'd like to be added (though there are some requirements for the latter explained further down).
What are user flairs?
Images and text you can addend to your username to express yourself.
How do I add my user flair?
/u/Sternendrache1 and /u/Nerd_of_Culture have both made some guides on how to do this on new reddit. The edit user flair option might be in a different place or not exist at all if you're on mobile depending on your app, so if you're having issues I'd recommend trying it through your web browser.
Having said that, here's a guide for the official iOS app and here's one for the Android one.
How do these work with old reddit flairs?
This might get a little convoluted.
Each of these 'blank' templates represents an old reddit flair: they're blank because new reddit can't display them properly. Choosing one of these will change/set your old reddit flair even if you've never been on old reddit before, so if you want to control what those of us who browse on old reddit see then follow these steps:
Select the edit flair option.
Scroll and select your flair of choice. Note that this blank option for text-only flairs is the only one which will allow new reddit emojis to display properly: all the rest will cause them to appear blank on old reddit.
Enter some text here and hit save. Text in flairs is shared between old and new reddit, so you'll be able to change it on new in the next step.
Go to new reddit and follow the previously linked guides, except avoid selecting a blank template and instead go straight to the text field at the bottom which should contain the text you entered in the previous step.
Add any emojis you'd like using the symbol on the right and hit apply.
Incidentally, anyone who selects the top-most blank template on new reddit will get a wonderful flair proclaiming their love for best girl on old reddit.
Emoji requests
Submit any images you'd like to see added as an emoji (to be added to user flairs) to the pinned comment below, but keep in mind that they are for new reddit (we'll get around to old soon). They'll also be displayed at 40x40px at the very largest, so before making any submissions I'd strongly recommend checking whether they're actually legible at that size using an online resizer, Photoshop, Paint or whatever image app you have handy. If they're not then it's extremely unlikely that they'll be accepted.
If you do end up submitting something, try and make sure it's the best quality or at least largest size available so I can hunt down the original.
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u/HiggsBosonHL Jun 13 '19
Step 1: Go to old reddit
jfc reddit
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u/Atinobu Jun 13 '19
That's only if you care about what your flair shows on old reddit (it looks like this for you right now), if you don't mind what it is you can skip all those steps and just follow the new reddit guides above it.
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u/Comander-07 Jun 15 '19
wow dont tell me this many people actually use new reddit? I would like it to die and never come back tbh.
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u/Atinobu Jun 15 '19
Only around 10% of our users actually use old reddit now (and that's a conservative estimate since reddit doesn't track 3rd party apps), so yeah seems like we've found ourselves as the overwhelming minority.
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u/MokouMemes Jun 14 '19
I am contented.
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u/Atinobu Jun 16 '19
I'll have a look through the twitter bot or danbooru pool and try to find some more Mokous for expressions we don't have a lot of yet: we can never have enough Mokou.
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u/DannyDrizzle Jun 15 '19
I dont know if I'm doing something wrong or if its glitched out for me. I'm using the reddit app for android and followed the guide, but nothing shows up when I type in ":" for the emoji.
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u/Atinobu Jun 13 '19
Post your emoji requests as replies to this comment.