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Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

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Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

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Post by robin_reala »

hlandau wrote: post #14

The new design is godawful and unusable, especially without JavaScript. Switching to old.reddit.com is a breath of fresh air. The juxtaposition seems like an ideal case study in how bad modern web design is. I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.

It’s not the designers’ fault, it’s developers seeing everything as a technology problem rather than a user needs problem (and I’m speaking as a developer). The best solution for any given problem is usually the simplest, at least until you find that you specifically need extra complexity to solve a user need. Unfortunately modern client-side development is fixed in a mindset of developer efficiency above all, which doesn’t naturally lead to simple solutions.

Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

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Post by buboard »

> It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site.

It's not the first one really. I can count many products that i use daily and have gone down the drain. There is obviously some "change for the sake of change" or just to get a promotion here. Reddit, Skype, adsense off top of my head

Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

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Post by wazoox »

The new design is slow as mollasses. It's ugly. It doesn't provide direct access to both the shared link and comments. Managing text formatting is slow and painful. The only positive point is the Ctrl+enter shortcut to post comments. I always use old.reddit.com.

Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

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Post by myhf »

jimhefferon wrote: post #12
hardmaru wrote: post #7

I can't stand the new reddit. I always browse the site with https://old.reddit.com/ Just replace www with old.

Me too, but you must know that they will turn it off at some point.

Why? thesixtyone.com never turned off their "old" subdomain

Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

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Post by kgwxd »

hlandau wrote: post #14

The new design is godawful and unusable, especially without JavaScript. Switching to old.reddit.com is a breath of fresh air. The juxtaposition seems like an ideal case study in how bad modern web design is. I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.

If you have an account, you can set your preferences to use the "old" design by default so you don't have to manually use old.reddit.com. Uncheck "Use the redesign as my default experience". If that option goes away, I'm done with reddit.

Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

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Post by jccalhoun »

The thing I hate the most about the redesign is that now everything takes an extra click. On old reddit the subreddits were right there on the left. Now they are in a drop down menu. If I wanted to switch between new and top stories it used to be right there at the top. Now it is hidden behind a drop down menu.

Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

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Post by Avamander »

kgwxd wrote: post #25
hlandau wrote: post #14

The new design is godawful and unusable, especially without JavaScript. Switching to old.reddit.com is a breath of fresh air. The juxtaposition seems like an ideal case study in how bad modern web design is. I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.

If you have an account, you can set your preferences to use the "old" design by default so you don't have to manually use old.reddit.com. Uncheck "Use the redesign as my default experience". If that option goes away, I'm done with reddit.

It truly is an "experience", just like when people describe food as an "experience".
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