Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

Post by basch » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 6:31 PM UTC

wott wrote: post #93

basch wrote: post #86

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responsive sites and mobile apps have led to the mobilification of desktop sites. there is absolutely a branding/marketing/design trend pushing shiny over usability. ive noticed it in banks in the last 5 years, where they have replaced dense powerful beautiful text based interfaces with giant versions of their mobile apps. huge buttons, minimal screen density. https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-i-love-ugly-messy-interfac…

> in banks in the last 5 years, where they have replaced dense powerful beautiful text based interfaces with giant versions of their mobile apps. huge buttons, minimal screen density. You forgot to mention that they load progressively and you never know when the page layout is done and stable, so when you think you click on something, your click ends up being received by a button/link which popped up in between, and…

Post by jonnismash » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 10:16 PM UTC

baggy_trough wrote: post #128

Retroity wrote: post #104

It is the worst redesign I've ever seen on a major website like this for a number of reasons. It's needlessly heavy on resources, it's slow, it's difficult to navigate, it's filled to the brim with ads, it's uninspired and takes away all of the charm of the old design in favor of making Reddit look like a more generic social media, it doesn't work with the wayback machine, and that's just scratching the surface. It's…

It's just awful, I agree. The sad thing is that original Reddit was highly usable, even if it looked a bit dated.

Post by wingerlang » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:01 AM UTC

wetpaws wrote: post #134

hombre_fatal wrote: post #79

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A peek outside the echo chamber: my roommates and girlfriend use Reddit. They don't have anything bad to say about the UI nor are aware HNers hate it. They didn't even know it changed, they just don't seem to care. I use old.reddit.com out of habit, but don't really care when I land on the new UI. I just use it. People blow it way out of proportion. I like some of its features, like how it's now a modal over the infi…

By the nature of the normal distribution there would be some people who would love new design. That's fine but it doesn't mean it is good.

Post by brokenmachine » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 6:51 AM UTC

acoard wrote: post #163

Accujack wrote: post #155

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>For some insane reason they're competing with Instagram and Reddit's management is driving the site as a business, which means doing things for the purpose of maximizing revenue according to the perception of what's "successful". Facebook is evil but successful at it, Instagram is (was) successful. The path they see to making money is to try to become the next XXXX, where XXXX is the "successful" social media site o…

>Once there's another option, Reddit is going to rather quickly become a ghost town. One can hope, but if Reddit really is taking their lessons from FB then they'll buy up the nascent competition and strangle the market.

Post by jackcodes » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 11:17 AM UTC

chii wrote: post #178

winternett wrote: post #157

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if you think that's terrible, check out the mobile browser version... It's full of pop ups that remind you to download their app, and none of the v.reddit or giphycat links work :/

This is why I use old.reddit.com, or the compact version ( https://reddit.com/.compact )