Personally I've kept with the old style by using https://old.reddit.com/r/topic1+topic2+topic3
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?
#102I think they're trying to capture new people to the site, outside of the original tech nerd demographic. To do this they made reddit look at lot more like YouTube.
Personally I just hate the lack of information density. It just feels bloated, slow, and too much whitespace.
New users probably don't care though. I remember the original interface would scare off some people originally because they thought it was ugly.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#103I think this redesign will go the way Digg did.
I doubt it. There isn't really any competitor right now and Reddit has a lot of credibility from stuff like AMA's with celebrities.
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#104It is the worst redesign I've ever seen on a major website like this for a number of reasons. It's needlessly heavy on resources, it's slow, it's difficult to navigate, it's filled to the brim with ads, it's uninspired and takes away all of the charm of the old design in favor of making Reddit look like a more generic social media, it doesn't work with the wayback machine, and that's just scratching the surface.
It's such a awful design. I've explicitly opted out of the new design on my account, and I use old.reddit.com whenever I'm not signed in.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#105It is the worst redesign I've ever seen on a major website like this for a number of reasons. It's needlessly heavy on resources, it's slow, it's difficult to navigate, it's filled to the brim with ads, it's uninspired and takes away all of the charm of the old design in favor of making Reddit look like a more generic social media, it doesn't work with the wayback machine, and that's just scratching the surface. It's…
Why aren’t you using old.reddit when you are signed in?
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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.
This kind of clueless, smug cynicism is one of the worst parts of internet comments. It's why basically every comment section on Reddit is a vapid circlejerk.
Cynicism? It's right there when you visit any reddit page on mobile. "This page loads better in the app" modal etc.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#107It is the worst redesign I've ever seen on a major website like this for a number of reasons. It's needlessly heavy on resources, it's slow, it's difficult to navigate, it's filled to the brim with ads, it's uninspired and takes away all of the charm of the old design in favor of making Reddit look like a more generic social media, it doesn't work with the wayback machine, and that's just scratching the surface. It's…
Why aren’t you using old.reddit when you are signed in?
You can, but the problem with using old.reddit.com is that clicking on reddit.com links (e.g. from reddit comments) will take you back to the new design. With the opt-out, you get the old design no matter what.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#108Yes, but I eventually realised what it's optimised for: image posts. For some insane reason they're competing with Instagram and Reddit's co-evolved site Imgur, on which people read comments much less often. They also really, really want you to use the mobile app, which presumably means it does something privacy-violating.
In defence of the mobile app, the experience is far, far better. I really like a lot of things about it. It has a lot of polish that makes browsing quite slick.
I do, however, notice that it does tailor the content to you in a way it didn’t before. The “hot” queue used to be the same for everyone viewing the same page. I like to read AskReddit posts, and on my front page I get many AskReddit posts that have very very little activity.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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.
This kind of clueless, smug cynicism is one of the worst parts of internet comments. It's why basically every comment section on Reddit is a vapid circlejerk.
Dude. Try browsing Reddit incognito mode: every time you visit you get a modal dialog trying to trick you into to download the app to proceed. Even the order of the options varies.
Bad faith dark design throughout
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
Getting mugged is an experience too I suppose