Reddit Expands Personalized Features With Skinning, Custom URLs
Our friends over at Reddit have introduced some new features to extend the capabilities of the site’s “create your own Reddit” tools. Now, in addition to using the Reddit codebase, you can customize the stylesheets to change the look and feel of the page, and change the CNAME so you can host your Reddit at your own URL.
The changes are part of Reddit’s ongoing effort to make creating and, as the company calls it, “raising” your own Reddit, as easy and customizable as possible.
Prior to today’s announcement, custom Reddits required a not-so-friendly URL (like: reddit.com/r/monkeylove) and the look and feel mirrored that of the main Reddit site. But now those restrictions are gone, so if you’ve been wanting to build your own distributed news site but didn’t want it to look like Reddit, the sky’s the limit.
To kick off the launch of the new features, Reddit is holding a contest with some pretty sweet prizes. The most popular custom Reddit wins a Macbook Air.
To enter your own creation, head over to the Reddit blog, which has all the contest details.
[Disclosure: Reddit is owned by CondeNet, the parent company of Webmonkey and Wired.]
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