the new design reminds me of digg's old design.
it would have been a good April Fools prank to launch a "HN redesign" in the same style
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#13Nope, it's awful. I will likely stop using the site if they ever do away with the old design option. I just can't stand how slow the new one is in comparison. If they fixed the performance, I guess it would be tolerable to use. Not sure what they are doing that makes it feel so laggy to use.
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#14I Reddit a lot, with the old design + RES, and the Reddit is Fun app. I have not liked the new design because it's harder to scroll past stories I don't care about, and I can't view full text posts without going to the comments page.
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#15I dislike it and I don't use it. I also use Reddit Enhancement Suite [1] to improve my experience.
I don't see why Reddit shouldn't just publish its retention/cohort metrics. Of general interest to the community and certainly not a trade secret.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-enhancement...
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#16i personally like it, it's cleaner and there's more whitespace that helps with readability.
I want to congratulate you for being the only person in this thread to like the redesign. I'd go as far to say that you're brave for outing yourself like this
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#18No, its buggy and the moderation tools are in-superior especially when you factor in the incomplete RES support.
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#19I prefer the old design, but the new one has a number of improvements and I think I could get used to it if it wasn't so unbearably laggy. I'm on a beefy MacBook pro and it's so slow it's frustrating, especially on Firefox.
Also I think it's a huge shame how much customization they've taken away from the subreddit styling. Completely custom CSS was way better, the new design seems to allow for some basic elements to be styled along with the banner. That is a major downgrade.
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#20The only thing that would make people like the new design would be coming out with a newest design. It’s the perpetual law of redesigns, which makes me believe a very vocal fraction of the internet lives in constant horror of the world around them changing.
Except Reddit's new design definitively sucks and it practically forces their app down your throat on mobile to increase their ad revenue.