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Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by rnet85 »

jumpman500 wrote: post #3

What are the best Reddit clones these days? I've seen voat but heard it's overrun by the alt right. Hubski seemed interesting but basically seems dead now. Anything else out there? Reddit is really losing its appeal to me with their desktop/mobile site changes. That and I feel the contents been getting less interesting. Like it's just memes or sensational politics everywhere. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Like with anything, you need to carefully curate what you consume. Like Twitter, Reddit can be an excellent place if you follow only subreddits that intrigue you.

Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by robbomacrae »

stcredzero wrote: post #136
robbomacrae wrote: post #132

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There is an opt out of the redesign option in your preferences. There is also old.reddit.com where the old design is preserved. What other comparable network/website goes to that extent to not force a redesign on their users?

What other comparable network/website goes to that extent to not force a redesign on their users? Ok, let's be fair. Given the dismal record of websites with regard to user continuity, you're doing relatively great! However, I'd also say that this is the wrong pool to measure against if you're looking for the limits of excellence. You're doing better than the peer group -- that can be fairly said to be a positive. Bu…

Sorry for the late reply - was out.

Sorry if the opt-outs a lengthy process. I guess the redesign team want to extract as much info from you as possible. I would just go to old.reddit.com if I were you ;)

Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by robbomacrae »

stcredzero wrote: post #134
robbomacrae wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hows Geocities doin? Sometimes you need to evolve to survive. We got stuck with the old codebase and adding features was a nightmare - features a lot of users were demanding! With the new design and codebase we can start adding more features.. optional features! we wont force you to use them. And FYI unlike other companies we don't even force you to use the redesign! We've left the old one up at old.reddit.com

Hows Geocities doin? Sometimes you need to evolve to survive. Are you suggesting that I think evolution is wrong? Would that really be a fair reading of my comment? We got stuck with the old codebase and adding features was a nightmare - features a lot of users were demanding! A positive suggestion for a future project: Implement a new UI with a newer fancy framework -- but have it emulate the old UI. (It should be f…

Sorry for the late reply - was out. And for putting words in your mouth. I understand now your more about incremental steps rather than drastic changes.

Thanks for the feedback. As I'm not on the web or redesign team I don't know how feasible that would have been.. I know there was a ton of stuff being done in strange ways with the legacy system.. but I can promise that with the new framework we will be able to make the usual A/B adjustments a lot easier and hopefully evolve more incrementally now into something better than both the current old and new designs.

Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by tscs37 »

robbomacrae wrote: post #135
stcredzero wrote: post #129

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How is that quantified?

First off I'm not on the redesign team BTW so haven't been as involved in this analysis enough to adequately answer your question and also my statement is one that you can quantify as such. But the reason I stated it is that A: it was a heavily requested feature B: comments regarding infinite scroll have been weirdly positive (contrasting my point in another reply about most comments are from very strongly opinionate…

But why is there no static fallback for when some script doesn't work? BetterReddit allows me to use both methods concurrently on the old design, why is the new design limited to a method that doesn't work for me?

Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by killbrad »

keyle wrote: post #82
TaylorAlexander wrote: post #71

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I have definitely noticed that YouTube is one of the few sites that causes my desktop to struggle when loading the page. Gmail is oddly heavy in this regard too. I worry that google might not be paying enough attention to load times or resource utilization.

I had to revert to the 'old' gmail. I mean a MBP 2017 shouldn't drop frames when scrolling emails!!

The"new" Gmail is the slowest website I use. I'm trying to give it a go but honestly I'm gonna have to switch soon. It's nearly unusable.

Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by gshrikant »

robbomacrae wrote: post #132
stcredzero wrote: post #128

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It was time the site didn’t look like a “dystopian craigslist” and looked like a website that was made in 2018. This is true. However, the transaction needs to seem equitable to the users. Will the improvement in looks and better feature discoverability seem to users like a fair trade-off for performance? Performance of a UI is pretty much the most valued quality to a user. Given that the developers/company have almo…

There is an opt out of the redesign option in your preferences. There is also old.reddit.com where the old design is preserved. What other comparable network/website goes to that extent to not force a redesign on their users?

First, personal preferences aside, I'm sure that the team would have worked hard on the redesign so congratulations on launching that!

Second, while I appreciate the opt-out option, is it here to stay or is it a fallback mode until the entire site is flipped over to the redesign? I can't imagine the former being the case - having two teams maintain two fundamentally different UIs doesn't seem viable in the long run. If so, to what extent is the rollout of the redesign influenced by the number of people opting out or the opt-out feedback?

Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by dingaling »

md224 wrote: post #45
jumpman500 wrote: post #3

What are the best Reddit clones these days? I've seen voat but heard it's overrun by the alt right. Hubski seemed interesting but basically seems dead now. Anything else out there? Reddit is really losing its appeal to me with their desktop/mobile site changes. That and I feel the contents been getting less interesting. Like it's just memes or sensational politics everywhere. Maybe I'm just getting old.

The key is subscribing to subreddits that match your interests. /r/all is like the sun: it can brighten your day, but if you stare at it you might just go blind. Also, if you find The Next Reddit, let me know so I can build a new AskOuija there. :P

For me, just casually dropping in to subreddits from a web search, I recoil at the suggestion of signing-up and slogging through curating and filtering until I achieve Reddit Nirvana. Life is too short.

Particularly when other topic-focused communities already exist i.e. what problem are subreddits solving?

And to invert that to the whole set, what problem is Reddit solving? I think they've asked themselves that and the response is this new UX which has the non-answer 'don't know, but let's keep eyeballs on our site and away from Facebook'.

Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by gnastygnorc »

robbomacrae wrote: post #124
cool_shit wrote: post #43

I deleted my Reddit account which kept the old design on it. Now when I occasionally browse Reddit as a non-user, it looks like an awful implementation of material design with tons of wasted space. For example, I see about 1.5 cards per page on my 13" laptop. Who designed this? It is horrid and nearly unusable. Not that I'll be using Reddit that much anymore, but it's like they deprecated the desktop version for mobi…

We left up the old design on old.reddit.com if you really want it :p

One metric I'd love to see is the comparison between use of the link to visit the old site from the new site as opposed to the link to the new site from the old

Re: Reddit's redesign increases power usage of user's devices

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Post by Whitestrake »

Casseres wrote: post #108
dredmorbius wrote: post #97

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Not on Android ...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

I'm very glad Firefox for Android supports the same extensions as the desktop version.
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