r/ideasfortheadmins • u/Sploshta • Aug 16 '23

Meta In built imperial to metric converter and visa versa

So like as the title says, when you open a post or something next to the comment search button there should be an imperial to metric converter/metric to imperial converter. I think this would be a great feature because it’s really annoying (I’m using mobile app) having to close reddit, open google, then try and remember the measurement. But if it was just a small menu that would drop down with a text box for the input and a drop-down menu for the measurement input and output.

I feel like it wouldn’t be too hard to make (obviously I’m not a dev so I’m not an expert) compared to something like a currency converter that would need live updates from the international currency exchange. And it would make it so much easier trying to figure out someone’s post.

Because reddit had a lot of imperial users and a lot of metric users, this would be a great way to prevent the possible hostility towards users of the other measurement system (normally people unfairly getting mad at Americans for using imperial).

Like if a post says something about someone being 6’6” and 250lb I have no idea if that person is overweight or just average without looking it up. Which obviously I can but it’s just a mild inconvenience that dissatisfies me when using reddit.

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u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked Aug 16 '23

Because reddit had a lot of imperial users and a lot of metric users, this would be a great way to prevent the possible hostility towards users of the other measurement system (normally people unfairly getting mad at Americans for using imperial).

This has to be a joke. This is literally just something to point at to call Americans morons.

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u/Sploshta Aug 16 '23

Yeah no I was joking about that part