Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by thisismyaccoun7 » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 7:19 PM UTC

everdrive wrote: post #69

I hate it, it's infinitely worse. Here are a few issues: - It's much slower/bulkier. I don't want a modern machine just render webpages. - Infinite scrolling designs are good for addiction, but not actually good for reading. If I have to reload the page, my spot is gone. - Much less content actually fits on a page, and I suspect this is done to encourage scrolling, similar to facebook's strategy. Increase addiction,…

You're first point is my biggest pet peeve. I get the "Something went wrong. Press here to return home" error all the time when my connection is mediocre or like if my phone is about to drop wifi for data. For a site comprised of basically just text and images, they figured out very well how to complicate serving the data to the point of unusability.

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by digikazi » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

I don't normally comment, but as a (formerly) heavy Reddit user I feel compelled to chime in: I absolutely loathe the new redesign. Infinite scrolling: ye Gods, why? It makes my fairly beefy laptop grind to a halt. Plenty of very eloquent posters before me have stated in great detail just why they hate it, so I won't bore everybody by repeating everything.

I used to love the very simplicity of old Reddit; by making it more Facebook-like, they infantilised a great site, and the moment they take away the ability to visit "old Reddit" my usage will drop right down. But I suppose this infantilisation is just right for the social media generation. Sigh.

Some commenters have mentioned the great Digg redesign fiasco; here's a link from August 2010 that talks about it. The internet was a very different place in 2010.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/pda/2010/aug/31/digg-...

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by collyw » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

truth_be_told wrote: post #96

Absolute worst unnecessary redesign! Reddit's charm was its simplicity and information density on a single screen. The new redesign has completely gutted it and made everything worse. I ONLY use https://old.reddit.com/ to access the site now.

The commenters have been getting worse as Reddit has grown completely independent of the new design.

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by michaelmrose » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 7:36 PM UTC

NamTaf wrote: post #103

I dislike it, but I reluctantly use it because its very numerous and significant drawbacks are maybe offset by the fact that it offers night mode. If there was a night mode setting in the old version, I'd use that in a heartbeat.

Did you know user scripts can give you a night mode?

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by ggregoire » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC

truth_be_told wrote: post #96

Absolute worst unnecessary redesign! Reddit's charm was its simplicity and information density on a single screen. The new redesign has completely gutted it and made everything worse. I ONLY use https://old.reddit.com/ to access the site now.

There is an option in the settings to display the old version on https://reddit.com

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by b3b0p » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 7:44 PM UTC

No. Reminds me of Netflix. Both have gotten substantially worse. To the point of me not even visiting or cancelling my subscription in the case of Netflix.

Is anyone or any company actually improving their website?

What is the cause of this? Any one have insight? I have a theory or thought, but I'm interested if anyone has some real insight or reason?

Edit: The constant use our app banner and nag is the worse.

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by DuskStar » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 8:22 PM UTC

Nope, dark mode+RES remains my one true love. If your redesign reduces info density, increases load times and breaks compatibility with the most popular user mod to your site... Perhaps you should rethink things.

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by ezekg » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 9:22 PM UTC

Twirrim wrote: post #93

ezekg wrote: post #21

I hate the new design. Not because it's new, but because it took everything I liked about Reddit (i.e. easy to read, no flashy design, FAST) and threw it out the window for a slow error-prone POS SPA app. I also hate the fact that when I follow links to Reddit from anywhere, e.g. Twitter, Slack, I see the new design and have to manually change the domain to old.reddit.com, even though my account settings are set to a…

On reddit, go to your preferences. Down under beta test you'll find "Use the redesign as my default experience". Deselect it. Now, even if you're following links from elsewhere, you'll get the "old" experience. No need to go to "old.reddit.com" any more.

That feature has never worked 100%, which I mentioned. There are countless complaints about it on /r/beta.

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by musicale » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 9:39 PM UTC

Is that a trick question?

Re: Ask HN: Do you like/use Reddit's redesign?

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Post by mftrhu » Sat, Apr 06, 2019, 9:42 PM UTC

I do not use the redesign. I especially despise this behavior of "forgetting" the login and redirecting users to the redesign, and I use a simple userscript to keep everything on old.reddit.

It's much heavier on my machine, for one thing, and I hate the new user pages - not the bio/avatar, or the fact that you can post there, but just how the messages are displayed. It's noisy. The context provided is not worth the space it takes on the screen, and AFAICT comments from deleted thread only appear on the old overview.