• manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech
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      1 year ago

      signatures were very dividing, a community usually had them or they didn’t and there were sometimes huge complain threads about them so they kind of just fell out of favor. You can still find places that use them.

      badges reddit adopted and put into the profile page similar to steam which was not a bad idea since people with a lot of badges created new UX issues.

      then you have status flairs and tags, these I really wish had come back, some subs enabled user flair which in some cases replicated the old forum style through CSS mods. Some of the styles you might have might be that your name glowed or had a small animation among other things. I always really liked these though I suspect at scale they have exploitation issues.

      I think some of these features could make a come back on smaller instances. Not sure we should go entirely back to the way it was done in the 00s though.