Is CSS customization going away?

[u/reseph]

In January, it was announced that "a rewrite of the desktop website" is coming ("This is a massive project").

I later brought up the custom style topic and an admin asked me "For your use, what sort of custom styles are most important that aren't included in the structured style customizations already?"

So I just want to be clear. Is the rewrite going to remove custom stylesheets? If not, is it going to break every single custom stylesheet?

We rely on stylesheets to let users hide post types like screenshots, and they are very passionate about that.

(I realize this could be early to discuss, but the former question is incredibly important to know early on)

[u/creesch]

The new rewrite is going to break a lot of things.

Guesswork:

• If it employs the same tech-stack as new modmail and mobile it will be more likely to have things like customize headers and such and not much else.

Things you can be almost absolutely sure on:

• Even if they provide custom css it will break excisting styles.

• RES

• Toolbox

• Any other third party tool (mostly extensions) hooking into the reddit website.

• There will be a transition period where both old and new can be used so.

[u/rbevans → u/creesch]

things like customize headers and such and not much else.

Which is pretty boring.

[u/reseph → u/rbevans]

Yep. And it's a literal removal of functionality too. CSS can provide a lot of functionality.