It looks like a fake/scam site, somehow. You know one of those who scrape other sites, steal the content and put their own ads on top.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think you've really hit the nail on the head.
Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#152When I finally get tired of being nagged to install the app and concede, I find the app is exactly like the mobile website, except all my normal browser functions like select/copy, copy image link, find are all non-intuitive or don't exist. Its just so pointless and stupid. Are these guys doing any UX testing?
Sure, they're testing the new UX's ability to increase their ad impressions. I'm sure that's going swimmingly.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#153I don't normally comment, but as a (formerly) heavy Reddit user I feel compelled to chime in: I absolutely loathe the new redesign. Infinite scrolling: ye Gods, why? It makes my fairly beefy laptop grind to a halt. Plenty of very eloquent posters before me have stated in great detail just why they hate it, so I won't bore everybody by repeating everything. I used to love the very simplicity of old Reddit; by making i…
> by making it more Facebook-like, they infantilised a great site
And Facebook itself used to have a very simple and lightweight layout.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#154I 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.
> we're not the population that Reddit redesigned for.
What is the population that Reddit was redesigned for and how does that redesign cater to them?
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#155Kind of, but not for the reasons they want me to like it. The redesign itself is terrible in almost every way, but in being so terrible it really drives a point home I've been thinking about for a while: the "best practices" of modern SPA design and implementation can really lead to drastically reduced functionality.
It might look slightly easier on the eyes (debatable) but other than that, actually using the redesign is worse in almost every way. It's slower than the previous version and there's way less information on a page, yet this is the app you'd get if you followed all the "common wisdom" about building a web front end in 2019.
Compare this to something like craigslist, or pinboard, or HN, which are all theoretically "ugly" but all very fast and very easy to use. Content notwithstanding the user experience on craigslist is infinitely better than the one on new Reddit.
So yes, I like the redesign, but only in the sense that is has highlighted all of the bad parts of modern web design to me in a very concrete way.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#156Kinda and I usually use reddit on mobile app because reddit website on mobile is terrible and on pc its not appealing enough. So I use mobile app. Mobile app also sucks a bit.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#157Only one thing I don't like is infinite scrolling.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#158Not 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.
Usenet is the answer to the distributed discussion forum problem. We need to breathe life back into it.
Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#159No. 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 au…
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Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?
#160I quit Reddit for a lot of reasons, but the redesign was the final nail in the coffin for me. Feels like No Country for Old Men over there.
I felt like all I was doing was watching loading spinners for the content to come in. Lots of last-minute DOM element readjustments that felt super broken and I never quite knew how to use anything. Add to that, links were replaced with icons in a lot of places so I never could find what I was looking for.
Blessing in disguise, really. I started using HackerNews and I love the community here.