I love the old Reddit design. It's a sea of mostly text with a few flair images but it really works. For me it's always been really readable and a joy to use.
If they take it away I'll probably just stop using the site.
Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
71–80 of 165 posts
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#72No and the Reddit community is a shadow of what it once was. I enjoy HN because there are less racists and 14 year olds. No politics either
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#73It is great for looking at gifs and funny pictures. Not so good for intelligent discussions, but I feel like those disappeared a long time ago.
If you only ever look at the home page as a non-logged-in user, or if you don't subscribe to subreddits I can see why you'd think that. There are awesome groups on a whole range of topics. Subscribe to some of those and suddenly Reddit is an aggregator of the best of the web. It rewarda careful choices.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#74I do prefer it. It looks much nicer, the old design was very dated, let's be honest. Don't need to use a third-party extension (Reddit Enhancement Suite) to make it usable anymore. It does seem quite buggy in places though. Especially in regards to login flow & 2 factor authentication. Seems to get stuck and gets in limbo where it acts like it's logged in but it isn't. However, I do hate the mobile 'experience', it's…
Exactly. New design makes it much easier to be used by non-advanced users like your mom or nephew. They are often ignored in the context of HN discussions and seldom voice for themselves, but they did consist a large portion of user base.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#75No, it’s absolutely terrible. Overly JavaScript heavy, slow as anything, laggy UI elements, bad use of screen realestate and it seems to be generally bloated.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#76Can’t stand the redesign.
It feels like a group of fresh ux grads built it. Trendy and cool, with the latest js crap but with Zero functionality or friendliness.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#77For most people who don’t like the new design, there is still https://old.reddit.com
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#78It looks like a fake/scam site, somehow. You know one of those who scrape other sites, steal the content and put their own ads on top.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#79I 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…
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.
Figured I'd leave my vote for Redreader here. It's open source, works offline (has a fully featured cached versions system) and I've used it for years. It also supports custom tabs too, so if you use a decent browser with add-on support (Firefox) you can get ad-blocking working for all articles you read within the app.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#80I do prefer it. It looks much nicer, the old design was very dated, let's be honest. Don't need to use a third-party extension (Reddit Enhancement Suite) to make it usable anymore. It does seem quite buggy in places though. Especially in regards to login flow & 2 factor authentication. Seems to get stuck and gets in limbo where it acts like it's logged in but it isn't. However, I do hate the mobile 'experience', it's…
Do you use Firefox on your mobile device? In the address bar, FF will show a "open in app" button. It looks like the Android robot.