Design
How to change the name of your members and online users
By default your members are called members or readers in you subreddit sidebar. Here's how to change that.
(Edit: Some of the images in this guide will look a bit different to what you see on your sub now. In January 2020 reddit made some changes to the look of the redesign.)
Screenshot showing the members and online users in the community details widget in redesign
Screenshot showing old.reddit sidebar - readers and users here now
In old.reddit you need to add some CSS to your stylesheet.
You can edit your subreddit’s CSS by going to your subreddit (on old reddit) and clicking “edit stylesheet” in your subreddit’s sidebar, or by going to https://old.reddit.com/YOURSUBREDDIT/about/stylesheet (and replacing YOURSUBREDDIT with your subreddit’s name)
Here you can manually add CSS, preview it with the “Preview” button, and save it when you’re happy with what you got.
This snippet from r/csshelp gets the job done. Just copy and paste into your stylesheet.
Edit "users" and "users here now" to what ever you'd like your members and online users to be called. Don't forget to save.
/*Changes the name of your subscribers/users here now*/
.titlebox .word { display: none }
.titlebox .number:after { content: " Users"; }
.titlebox .users-online span.number:after { content: " Users here now"; }
Our guides are written by volunteers and we haven't had the time to keep them updated. I hope to update once everything is settled UI wise again, but no promises.
Click on the pencil next to the subreddit's name, then you can change the "Members" and "Online" text to something else. It can only work in desktop mode.
You need to be on desktop, or desktop mode in a browser to make the changes. What can currently be done in app is limited but they're working on it.
If you are on iOS there was a recent update, not sure if this was included, but the guide is written for desktop, not mobile. Sorry. We will hopefully do coverage on the mobile updates.
I just did it, and it worked (in r/TxT_office )
While I did it, the 'old reddit redirect' extension in my browser was deactivated.
You probably have to be a desktop user (and probably cannot use extensions that change reddits appearance, while making the changes to the CSS)
Ahhhh, thank you, I'm tracking now. I was trying to edit everything from my phone and it just wasn't working. I opened it up on my laptop and clicked the get new reddit link. Thank you!!!
This is a cool little mod. I'm on mobile now but will make this a feature later on my laptop 💯 If I want to change members and online now, which part of the code should I change please?
Did you change it on new Reddit? Only that one will take effect on mobile. And possibly only the official mobile apps, unless any 3rd-party apps utilize it too.
Yeah, if your screen is too small, they hide the sidebar with no way to access it. But you should be able to get to the page with the URL. Go to your subreddit page and add ?styling=true to the end of it. If your screen is too small, it may not be very user-friendly, though. If you can get to a desktop, it'd be much easier.
No!!! Wait... can someone on desktop become a mod of r/MsmFanmades and change the members and online to "Fanmade Handlers" and "Doused In Creativity"? Please?
Are you using a mobile app? This can only be done from desktop or using a mobile browser in desktop mode.
If your screen size is too small, the sidebar isn't displayed, which could be an issue too. If that's the case, add ?styling=true to the end of your URL to get the styling tools to appear.
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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20
I needed this so much, thank you