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I 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 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…
I 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.
If they cared about usability or user experience, they wouldn't have 3 different reminders to use the Reddit app or redesign each time you visit the site, each interrupting flow or completely blocking the visible page itself. Certainly the web app wouldn't "forget" that you opted out of the redesign or log you out if they cared about user experience.
It's very clear that the redesign was an effort to more efficiently push ads to users and drive their valuation up.
i personally like it, it's cleaner and there's more whitespace that helps with readability.
Their 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.