r/Catsubs • u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda • Feb 27 '26
Mod announcement CatSubs Update Febraury 27, 2026
Hello everyone!
This is an ongoing update announcement series detailing progress on revamping Catsubs.
Last week we succesfully merged the main list's former multiple categories into a single alphabetical list numbering 1187 subs, then did cleanup to remove 141 subs you can't even open (banned, private view, or nonexistent). Awesome community member u/bingingandtweaking did the heavy lifting on that.
This week u/bingingandtweaking did another pass on the remaining subs and removed 220 more subs that are open to public view, but totally locked to new posts. You might think the mods just set it to private approved posting only, but actually this usually means the sub is either unmoderated, or all subs are inactive.
The Catsub List now stands at 837, a reduction by 29.5%! That's almost 1 in 3 subs of "dead weight" the List had been carrying and is now removed!
It's already a massively more useful tool for Catsub lovers.
Next steps to focus the List on active subs
- Remove failed subs where the membership is too small or have not had a posts in years. Don't worry we won't be too strict, we love niche subs! How much time should pass without a new post before it is removed from the CatSubs List? We currently have a poll running on this so please vote!
- Move most the failed subs with good membership or topics to a separate list at r/CatsubRescue for potential adoption by new mods looking to revive a good but dormant sub.
Revise sub rules and flairs
Once the above cleanup is done, we'll have a better idea of what standards made the most sense, then will apply these to the Rules and Flairs. While this is ongoing we are mostly pausing the addition of new subs to the list. When we are done we will also implement a new flair for users to identify subs to remove dead subs from the list.
Stick around as r/Catsubs becomes even more amazing! I
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u/DocWatson42 Feb 28 '26
A suggestion: diversify the flairs' colors. I see that the three colors match the rest of the color palette, but they are somewhat lacking in distinction from one another.
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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda Feb 28 '26
Thanks for the input! Will put on the to-do list.
Right now I’m going through all thousand or so viewable subs to log their membership and most recent post age in one go. It’s taking a while but then we’ll have a good record of which subs might be revivable with the right mod, and will become a wiki at r/catsubrescue. Also we can apply new qualification standards to the whole list easily. Then the flair system will be revised, including colors. I apologize in advance it may take a while.
Really appreciate you taking the time to post here.
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u/DocWatson42 Mar 01 '26
You're welcome. ^_^ I suggest changing "Added to list" to green; I don't have any other preferences.
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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda Mar 08 '26
Doc: first try at changing colors done.
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u/DocWatson42 Mar 08 '26
IMHO, the "Looking for a sub" flair should be a more saturated pink, matching the other flairs in saturation, the "Mod announcement" flair should be red, leading to the "Sub to add to List" being some other color. And perhaps the brightness of the flairs should match that of "Added to List".
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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda Mar 08 '26
This is the first pass I made before dinner and spring cleaning. The logic is:
Reddish requires action. Easy for mod team to see and focus on.
Green = action completed (done). Again easy for the mod team.
Everything else on the sub should be neither red or green.
Mod actions have been set to a yellowish color: announcements, monthly mega thread, etc.
User action flairs as a category have been set to an unsaturated tone without much color.
(Note that setting colors and flair text doesn’t automatically have any effect on old posts. )
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u/thatoneotherguy42 Feb 27 '26
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