Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by mayniac » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:45 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #10

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.

old.reddit.com is okay, but it now requires the temp whitelisting of 2 or sometimes 3 javascript domains. Not just reddit.com like was required in the past. Given that, it's just easier to use the ceddit.com javascript interface to pull from the API and get the actual old reddit experience. But even worse than the redesign is the new corporate culture of censorship. I left after they banned r/gundeals. They're boilin…

I hadn't seen notabug before. Visited the site and this was the current top post (censored by me):

"Should I complain about a nXXXXr cashier braying like a donkey?"

That's not a great first impression...

As a side note, anyone know how to do multiple asterisks on HN? Backslash doesn't seem to work as an escape character.

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

#42

Post by sramsay » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC

Honestly, the new design might be better, but I'll never know, because like you, every single page throws an error.

How can one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world be so completely broken? I'm not sure. I can certainly summon lots of examples of terrible design that didn't hinder a site's success in the slightest. But I can't think of many sites that succeed despite throwing constant errors.

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

#43

Post by znpy » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC

Since they deployed the new user interface it became unusable. The old UI was lighter, faster and more intuitive/usable.

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

#44

Post by thomasfl » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

Reddit was best when it had almost the excact user interface as this site, hacker news.

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

#45

Post by arianvanp » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

YES. and 90% of the videos do not load on mobile either

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

#46

Post by elpocko » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:49 PM UTC

It's unbearable. Reddit's dev and design staff is not very competent. They probably have lots of virtues, being good at their job is not one of them.

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

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Post by 50656E6973 » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

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.

>I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.

They are, because the business wants you to download the app.

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

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Post by outime » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

Unless I missed someone, every single comment (including myself) agrees: the new site is just unusable. It’s awful.

IMHO it’s been broken since they released it and so it makes me think that they won’t fix it so people will switch to the app (or that’s what they might be thinking).

Like many others I use the old design and if they get rid of it then I’ll just skip Reddit entirely.

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

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Post by Infernal » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

50656E6973 wrote: post #47

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.

>I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse. They are, because the business wants you to download the app.

Then why provide old.reddit.com?

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

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Post by amelius » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

robin_reala wrote: post #21

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…

> It’s not the designers’ fault, it’s developers seeing everything as a technology problem rather than a user needs problem

Yes, but in a big company developers don't define the product, (product) designers do.