Rainbow Six State of User Flairs & Updated Tutorials

State of User Flairs & Updated Tutorials
Grim Sky Releases tomorrow between 9 AM and 11 AM EDT Depending on Platform
I can't wait for this...
The true meaning of Blackbeard
Get Better, Lion
Castle Buff Idea
Karma Police quickly on the case
"It would be pretty stupid if they gonna Hunt you down and you kill all of them"
This Recruit got Kapkan'd, Smoked and Frosted at the same time. RIP.
Heart attack inducing
"Aquila" concept operator ability animation (demonstration)
Is Oil Spill the most underrated gun skin in the game?
In order to defeat the enemy, you must become one with the enemy.
When Thatcher becomes an Ash
I might not reach Gold this season, but my Jäger does
Who else remembers when shield ops could aim with their shields up?
Haters will call this cheating
Buck's Wildland headgear no longer has long neck (Undershirt on Uniform now)
I made iq's Aug out of cardboard and styrofoam, this is wip btw
First Time i did this trick..
The stuff of nightmares
Instantly regretted this move, but no turning back
My greatest one tap ever !!!!!
Completely Calculated
Why can't Frost see her trap locations?
Mute Buff Idea: ability to deploy the jammer in vertical surfaces.
Fuze is EZ

State of User Flairs & Updated Tutorials

Posted: 03 Sep 2018 01:38 AM PDT

Yesterday, I did some work on user flairs so I believe this would be a good time to make an update/announcement around the current state of user flairs as well as sharing our updated tutorial on how to assign yourself those flairs.

State of User Flairs

What even are User Flairs?

User flairs are snippets of text and/or images that appear next to your username when you comment or submit a post. These come in three different variations, depending on the platform you're browsing on (old Reddit, new Reddit or mobile). Here are some examples:

Example #1: Old Reddit

Example #2: New Reddit

Example #3: Mobile App

Old Reddit

User flairs on old Reddit have been around for quite some time now. There's a selection of either Operator icons or Operator chibis for all Operators apart from newer ones (starting with Year 3).

We decided to freeze our community styling (CSS) for old Reddit due to Reddit's push to redesign the whole website and the growing popularity of mobile. This demographic made up 81.3% of yesterday's unique visitors on /r/Rainbow6.

While we would like to continue to support old Reddit with seasonal styling and new user flairs, the combination of comparatively low traffic and no-one on our team being proficient with CSS makes this not feasible.

This means that you will only see a generic Rainbow 6 theme instead of custom seasonal styling and new flairs will only show up as Recruits.

New Reddit & Mobile

Just like old Reddit, there's a selection of Operator icons and Operator chibis with a complementary text.

Flairs on new Reddit work with custom emoji instead of full-blown pictures. We can upload those custom emojis to the subreddit and make them available for user and post flairs.

There are a few issues with this system though, which is why we had to disable the ability to assign yourself a custom text. On old Reddit, we were able to distinguish moderators and Ubisoft employees through the use of flairs. On new Reddit, this had to be done through emojis. Sadly, there are no mod-only emojis right now which is why we can't allow regular users to edit their flair because you would have access to those emojis as well.

Changes to the emoji system are apparently on Reddit's roadmap so we might be able to restrict special emojis in the future and thus re-enable custom user flair text.

Feedback or Suggestions for Existing Flairs

Since flair text needs to be pre-set right now, we went for the most obvious choice of "______ Main" with either a choice of Operator icon or chibi.

I've seen a couple of complaints about the one-sided nature of this. We're open for suggestions and hope to find a more appealing set of flairs. There are a few restrictions though:

No user-editable text
One flair per Operator icon and per Operator chibi
Default grey color (as opposed to moderators' green and Ubisoft's blue)

Updated Tutorials

I've updated our Subreddit Meta Guide with up-to-date tutorials on how to change your flair for all platforms. Please check out the full page for all information but here are the videos:

Tutorial: Old Reddit

Tutorial: New Reddit

Tutorial: Mobile App (iOS-only at the moment)

TL;DR

User flairs now up-to-date on all Reddit platforms. There are some temporary and some permanent restrictions and the current system is the best we could come up with. If you want to assign yourself a user flair but don't know how to, we have some new tutorials for you.

Let us know if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions either through comments on this thread or through mod mail!

submitted by /u/jeypiti
[link] [comments]

Grim Sky Releases tomorrow between 9 AM and 11 AM EDT Depending on Platform

Posted: 03 Sep 2018 08:04 AM PDT