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Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by blck »

alasdair_ wrote: post #11
SheinhardtWigCo wrote: post #2

When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.

I agree. The new UI is utterly obnoxious on mobile - they keep trying to force me to use the app, including making it impossible to read the rest of a forum without using the app instead. It's horrible.

I also find the new UI to be awful on desktop. Just disastrously slow. I hardly use Reddit anymore part of it the community and me just having different priorities but the other part is this new Mobile first mentality. I’ll use old.Reddit.com until they finally kill it.

Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by jeremymcanally »

alasdair_ wrote: post #11
SheinhardtWigCo wrote: post #2

When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.

I agree. The new UI is utterly obnoxious on mobile - they keep trying to force me to use the app, including making it impossible to read the rest of a forum without using the app instead. It's horrible.

I agree, hence why I live on https://i.reddit.com on mobile. It lacks some of the features of the new UI, but I don't use those anyhow since I just lurk/read.

Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by ReactiveJelly »

CincinnatiMan wrote: post #4

Are we sure this is intentional and not a recent bug? I feel like I've seen gallery sets before on the old UI.

Bug meaning, they quit caring about the old UI and the bugs are just gonna accumulate

Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by Agustus »

baby wrote: post #76
SheinhardtWigCo wrote: post #2

When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.

I don't understand why they're doing this: 1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it's just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn't return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn't display comments for me (infinite loading). 2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There's just so much friction in reading comments from multiple post…

Metrics: It is easy for them to keep track of metrics, including the following:

* did someone pause on a post, mark it * time on page, * whatever other crazy metric you can show to advertisers * in-line advertisements

Also, the walled garden makes it so you get the endorphin hit of clicking the button and it can algorithmically entice you back with notifications and other engagements.

Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by absolutelyrad »

sergiomattei wrote: post #66
alasdair_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Killing off the old interface and forcing users to use the new one is the reason Reddit still exists and Digg effectively does not.

Come on, are we really going to get this hyperbolic? The amount of people complaining about the interface is a vocal minority.

A very significant percentage of Reddit browses the old interface (I think 20% or 30%). These people are likely to leave and help create another viable competitor.

Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by ReactiveJelly »

verroq wrote: post #34
coldcode wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IF the old interface is replaced by the horrific one that shows like 5 articles I will never visit again.

Maybe we’re just not the target audience for reddit anymore. I’ve spoken to spoken to zoomers who use reddit and their response is that the “new UI” is all they’ve used and they like it because everything is embedded in the same page and scrolls like their twitter/facebook/instagram feed.

That's probably the case.

I only use Reddit from behind Tor, on desktop, so I open a bunch of tabs to amortize the load time, then read them in sequence and close each one as I read it.

If you have fast Internet and a short attention span, and faith in your web browser's back button, maybe that doesn't make sense.

Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by shawnz »

CincinnatiMan wrote: post #4

Are we sure this is intentional and not a recent bug? I feel like I've seen gallery sets before on the old UI.

I am guessing it is just an issue with the custom CSS on this subreddit.

EDIT: Nevermind, after investigating the issue does not seem to be the CSS.

Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by zests »

baby wrote: post #76
SheinhardtWigCo wrote: post #2

When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.

I don't understand why they're doing this: 1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it's just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn't return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn't display comments for me (infinite loading). 2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There's just so much friction in reading comments from multiple post…

I understand it in the sense that I can conceptualize it. I just have a hard time believing it is really best for business. They determine how much money they make per user and find that signed in users make more money. Signed in users on their mobile app (users inside of their walled garden) make the most money. If they lose a couple users trying to convert everyone to using their mobile app, so be it.

Having an account and using their mobile app makes it easier to track you, easier to show you ads and likely worth more per advertisement.

Re: Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible

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Post by WillPostForFood »

baby wrote: post #76
SheinhardtWigCo wrote: post #2

When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.

I don't understand why they're doing this: 1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it's just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn't return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn't display comments for me (infinite loading). 2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There's just so much friction in reading comments from multiple post…

I prefer old reddit for the same reason as you, I like to read and comment. But I can tell you who they are catering to: People who scroll through subreddits scanning photos. If you go to meme focused subreddit, the new version is pretty good. If you go to a discussion focused subreddit, the old version is better.

Try https://www.reddit.com/r/Watches/ in an incognito window to see it in the new Reddit, then try it old reddit.

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