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Re: Old Reddit Is Down

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This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.

Quora has a similarly baffling UI. You're reading one thread trying to find a useful response and it mixes in random answers to other threads. Who the hell thinks this is a good idea? The only thing I can figure out is some "expert" somewhere has data that says there's a small pickup of people coming in from SEO clicking on other random links. But you would have to be such a myopic idiot to think that deliberately co…

Quora's UI is just trash. It's hard to realize the answer you are reading is not an answer to the question you have opened and that's an unbelievably stupid thing to get wrong in a website that is all about questions.

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

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I hope so too! The day we all spoke about. Lol. "The day they take down old Reddit I'm out"

This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.

Same. That's part of the appeal of this site. It looks like old reddit.

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

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This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.

Plus on the new layout you're forced to use the mobile app now.

I use firefox and YesterdayForOldReddit for mobile browsing and it's basically the old.reddit experience on mobile.

Re: Old Reddit Is Down

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I just don't get why they don't just put more ads into old reddit? People hate new one, always had. Fix the mobile issue, stuff it with ads and be done with it...
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