I still like to browse reddit.com/.compact on mobile.
Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#42I can tell you already that 99.99% of Hacker News commenters are going to say they hate the new design. And it does suck! But we're not the population that Reddit redesigned for.
We're the population designing and deploying these JS driven SPA things, so maybe someone should ask how Reddit could have done it right, and why we always seem to get it wrong?
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#43I can tell you already that 99.99% of Hacker News commenters are going to say they hate the new design. And it does suck! But we're not the population that Reddit redesigned for.
i do think that we re not far from the average redditor.
Given how much content gets pasted here from /r/programming and other tech subreddits, and how much passion there is behind HN's distaste for the redesign, I would bet that many, if not most, HN users are redditors.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#44Sidebars are totally gone. There are subs I _only visit_ for the information in their sidebar and wiki, both of which are gone, as far as I can tell, in the redesign.
Also, I use reddit the most in bed, on my phone. It is a great aggregation service for news and interesting articles, but they have intentionally slowed down their website and regularly make it worse and more annoying in an effort to force users to use their app. I am sure that the app is fine, but I like the browser because I want to be able to open links in new tabs and then have those tabs available on my desktop the next day for further reading.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
The third party reddit apps are a lot better. I prefer Reddit Is Fun on Android but I know there are several good options besides that on both mobile platforms.
Apollo on iOS is fast and easy. Would recommend to anyone.
Apollo, FTW. It has my vote. Grabbing content to quote is still a problem (it sits beneath the bottom bar, probably a negative padding issue), but otherwise I have no complaints.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#46Their metics on the redesign isn’t “like it vs. dislike it” it’s “actively hates it vs. hates it but not enough to care” But at least they didn’t digg it and kill the site outright, and instead just started to see how much nagging and annoyance they can pull their faithful user base through before they break.
I don't know about that. I didn't really start using Reddit until 3 years ago, and even though I loved the content I could not stand the old school design. I hated it so much that I ended up with multiple extensions and scripts overlayed on top of it to make it bearable for me.
Their new design is a vast improvement, but in my opinion they didn't go far enough and missed the mark on improving the backend capabilities. Why can't I easily apply arbitrary sort and filters to subreddit content? Why is the messaging system unreliable and lack basic organization capabilities?
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#47I hate it. So many reasons why. Redirect to mobile app along with nerfed mobile website is God awful. Broken browser behavior when clicking links is obnoxious. I'd go on but this thread covered everything else.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#48I hate the new design. Not because it's new, but because it took everything I liked about Reddit (i.e. easy to read, no flashy design, FAST) and threw it out the window for a slow error-prone POS SPA app. I also hate the fact that when I follow links to Reddit from anywhere, e.g. Twitter, Slack, I see the new design and have to manually change the domain to old.reddit.com, even though my account settings are set to a…
It's interesting to see a side-by-side comparison of a SPA designed with the best modern web development has to offer and a hardened and optimized over 10 years server-rendered site.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#49Reddit keeps on putting a banner at the bottom of its pages saying "Try the redesign! It has INFINITE SCROLLING!" and I am like, guys, that's the last thing I want, I like having those little moments where I have to explicitly decide if I want more of what you have or not, that makes it easier to stop and go do something useful .
Infinite scrolling is a pet peeve of mine. When it's on a PC (and not mobile), it's a little disconcerting to not have breaks in the content, and it completely breaks scroll bar behavior if I'm dragging down the scroll bar when the next chunk loads.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#50I don't mind the new look, but the build itself is terribly slow and feels bloated.