Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

i personally like it, it's cleaner and there's more whitespace that helps with readability.

Do not like it. old.reddit.com

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 made the old design convenient in these respects, and is almost impressively bad. It is so astoundingly different than what made Reddit work originally (i.e. its simplicity) that it quite honestly feels like someone tried their best to sabotage Reddit.

And all of this, I must say, is before I even mention the ridiculous spam-like additions they made. I think the new design finds no fewer than 3 places to shove something in my face like “USE APP / Better in app / HEY DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN APP!?!?!?”. Who is that for? Does anyone like this kind of crap? It virtually guarantees that I will never download the app.

Reddit’s days are numbered if it keeps this stuff up. I’m actually surprised that, historically, Digg died for much smaller redesign “sins”, and I think it was primarily because Reddit was an alternative. What’s the alternative?

It's dog slow. It uses small popup instead of leading to a new page. And it has less density of information compared to the old design, even in compact mode. It's like new Gmail versus old Gmail, everything got bigger anv you got less information per page as a result.

No. Scrolling down the page should not make my 2018 i7 MacBook Pro spin up its fans.