It 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.
Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#52On every redesign on every website ever there will be a huge outcry of people who hate the new design.
The Reddit one is barely usable for me though, I’m not sure if it’s the JS heavy front end buts it’s really laggy and hard to use on a 2015 MBP with Safari so I just switched to Apollo app as the only way to use it. The desktop site got unusable for me.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#53On my screen the redesign goes from 17 links to 3.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#54I 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.
Sync for Reddit is one of the best out there. Very customizable and the developer is very responsive and open to suggestions.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#55I 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…
You can opt out of the redesign if you go to your profile. Also, if you use it in the browser on your desktop, reddit enhancement suite is the best add-on you can use. Works with (almost) any browser.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#56No.
Neither do I like being harassed by various banners to switch to redesign (recently sliding banners for "amazing" dark mode and infinite scrolling) or even finding it was loaded by force randomly during browsing random content and that seems to be happening way too often to count it as "accident".
I get the idea behind this: they set themselves a goal of luring in new people by making UI more attractive to the audience who's familiar with social network interfaces and such way of providing content (the default card is just same as twitter, facebook and instagram feed view). Still, they should still respect users who want to stay on faster-loading old interface and provide it as an option in preferences (old domain is just half-assed way to do it), not assuming that everyone will be enjoying this new UI.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#57Not 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.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#58Their 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.
They're obviously heading toward the moment when redesign will be the default interface without way to opt-out (which is already happening to some of the people who managed to trap themselves by this "dark mode" banner acc. to r/redesign comments) and I assume neither old domain will be working at some point and removal will be explained by some ridiculous statement that it's inefficient to keep 2 interfaces, users are happily adapted to use new style (having no other choice) or something similar.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#59I 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 do think that we re not far from the average redditor.
Still bit away I'd say tho, reddit commenting style leaks out in some topics
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Reddit is fun on Android is so much better than official reddit one.
For which its become pretty much the exclusive way I use reddit now. I can't remember the last time I opened reddit on anything other than my phone.
It's actually clean, and configurable enough that I can set the right information density for myself, and I dont get all the banners and ads bugging you to use reddit's official mobile app. Plus an actually consistent dark theme is a massive bonus.