Hello all,
Over the last week or so, you may have found some flairs you've assigned yourself may not work now. In short, this is because one of the mod team took a step back a while ago who handled the background gubbins of the Subreddit which handled User Flairs, Link Flairs and the general presentation of the Subreddit, but we hadn't arranged for a handover so someone else could pick it up in their place at the time. As nobody else in the mod team was overly familiar with how it worked, we had just left it as it was. Although the more pragmatic decision at the time, inevitably this meant that the squad list hadn't been updated since the 2019 Season... which was not a great look to say the least and I'm sure must have looked bizarre. Over the last week, we've taken steps to review, reverse engineer how the coding worked and apply long overdue revisions and updates. I will take responsibility for this aspect going forward, so if anything breaks you know who to blame.
The first major thing that will impact you is that User Flair have been impacted by this. We've made a conscious decision to cut down on the User Flair bloat we felt started to accrue and have cut the list down to the current playing staff and a few select Watford Legends. And WatDog. You may find some Flairs you assigned yourself years ago may not work anymore. I apologise, but there is no way to get those back and you'll need to select one of the updated Flairs from the sidebar if you are impacted by this. If you have any particular requests, please DM either myself or one of the mod team and we'll look to accommodate it if it's reasonable. Going forward, the User Flairs list will be updated three times throughout the year as follows: A week before the first game of every Season (All playing staff in the upcoming Season's kit), a week after the Summer Transfer Window shuts, and a week after the Winter Transfer Window shuts.
The other thing is that the Link Flairs (Used for all post submissions) has been streamlined. We wanted to reduce the amount of Link Flairs that served a similar, sometimes overlapping purpose. Effective as of now, these are the revised Flairs, and context for their application:
| Flair Name | Application |
|---|---|
| Official News | Only Submissions from either the Official Watford FC Website or Twitter |
| Transfers & Rumours | All transfer gossip. Whether from the Watford Observer, The Athletic or Joe Bloggs |
| Matchday | Matchday Threads, Video Clips and match highlights now apply to this Flair |
| Discussion | This Link Flair has not been changed |
| Article | Expanded to include the now removed Flairs of "Quote", "Interview", "Social Media" and "Stats" (Sorry ) |
| Shitpost | This Link Flair has not been changed |
| Non-Watford | To accommodate the rare non-Watford post |
| Mod Business | Surely I don't need to explain this one? |
As always, thank you for being a part of this community now and going forward and here's to a more positive 2023/24 Season.
Kind Regards from The Modteam.
