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For most people who don’t like the new design, there is still https://old.reddit.com
Reddit 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 .
The fact that they've called it an `onboardingbar` is not exactly reassuring.
- You can't seem to persist the "old reddit" design any more. It keeps switching you back to the new design
- It's just much slower to load content. The old site was fairly snappy
- Comment are CONSTANTLY failing to load in most of the threads I open
- The autoscroll is also regularly failing to load new items
- Using the mobile site, I'm nagged by numerous attempts to get me to install the native app
Endless Scroll basically destroyed my productivity for a week until I figured that out. I switched to Old Reddit and my life is back in balance.
Just one of those subtle little things nobody would've anticipated, I guess.
No. Largely the dark pattern mobile "get the app" hassling. But also the sheer load time on desktop. And to a lesser extent the breaking of the "a bunch of mostly-static links with associated commentary" model. Using the site is quite unpleasant now. And it's enough unpleasantness to keep me from going back to checking it regularly. I hope they keep it.
Interesting, I just closed Reddit while complaining in my head about how poor the experience is: - You can't seem to persist the "old reddit" design any more. It keeps switching you back to the new design - It's just much slower to load content. The old site was fairly snappy - Comment are CONSTANTLY failing to load in most of the threads I open - The autoscroll is also regularly failing to load new items - Using the…
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
Not at ALL. I’ve never seen a single site design repel me more quickly. I depend heavily on the simplicity and information-density of the old design (e.g. being able to pick from a dozen link titles that all fit on screen at once). I also depend on the pinch-to-zoom simplicity of focusing on exactly what I want, which only works well in the “normal” web pages of the old design. The new “design” breaks everything that…
If there was a cookie cutter reddit alternative and there was no content, would you use it? The network effects of reddit are a reasonably strong barrier of entry.