As many of us have seen with the new Reddit design, the way flairs work have changed a fair bit and AutoModerator cannot apply a flair which is styled by the new Reddit design.

Someone earlier this evening explained the new flair system, or rather, the proper use of it, where it focuses on the flair template ID rather than modifying just the text/CSS of the flair. This means, if a flair is applied by its template ID, it can be styled both in the new Reddit design and through the old design's CSS.

This leads to my question:

Are there any plans for AutoModerator to allow setting a flair by its template ID, for advanced users?

While I can do enough to work around this with minor changes and my own bots, it would be awesome to see AM support it, letting us reap the benefits of using AutoModerator rather than homebrew bots.

I've been wondering about the issue for a while, and now that I know what exactly changed in the flair system, I'm definitely curious to see how AM will be addressing it.

If anyone is curious about the documentation on flair templates with PRAW, the below two links should help; both links were pointed out to me by jeypiti so props to them for em.

Finding your flair templates:

https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code_overview/other/subredditlinkflairtemplates.html

Assigning flair templates to posts:

https://praw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code_overview/other/submissionflair.html