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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 effingwewt »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #128
slowmovintarget wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is the conversation threads. You can't read them in the new format. They constantly elide them so you have to click on them and it jumps around on the screen. In the old view, I can read a page full of threaded comments on a thread I've clicked into. In the new layout, you get maybe five comments, and a scroll to the next thread. It is awful.

I don't get what you're mentioning. If you open a thread (in a desktop browser tab), you get the discussions just like before.

Not true at all. It'll only show some of the comments others will be hidden until you click on them, making the screen jump around the screen as gp said.

old.reddit.com alleviates this but not for much longer I'm sure.

Then the lovely firefox will periodically decide not to allow 'trusted site exceptions' disallowing you from visiting old.reddit.com. All in all I find it's too much work most of the time.

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

#132

Post by hhjinks »

com2kid wrote: post #75
unclekev wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

14 year club here as well. I'd argue that the following are fundamental changes that have impacted the community in a big way: - Selling 10% of the business to Tencent/Chinese investors - Firing their community managers in 2015 and not replacing them - When I first joined Reddit it was more technology focused, now it's all pop culture and memes. Although Tech subs are still plentiful so it can still be that site. (Wi…

> The whole new design is anti-user, the site is just masses of white space, super slow, JS heavy and pretty much unusable outside a third party mobile client. The day old.reddit.com gets shut down will be a sad day. On desktop the new design is much easier to use, it took me awhile to realize, but being able to hit esc and be right back where you were in the story feed is super nice.

What are you even talking about. All modern browsers will bring you back to the spot you were in when you go back to the previous page, and have for years.

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

#133

Post by hhjinks »

ReactiveJelly wrote: post #91
novia wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine question: What's wrong with XKCD comics?

A sign that there's nothing good on the site, just people reposting the same stuff, maybe with text macros. There's 3 new comics per week. It's not like you can sustain a whole website on that.

> It's not like you can sustain a whole website on that.

I don't know, xkcd.com seems to be doing just that.

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

#134

Post by MeinBlutIstBlau »

jmclnx wrote: post #21
SheinhardtWigCo wrote: post #2

When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.

Same for me, and for people using mobile, not for me. Screen to small, and I will not get into spywhere on smart phones. So, if I cannot get to old.reddit, I stop going there, very simple. I am glad hackernews/ycombinator still has what I consider the best WEB/Comment setup I have ever seen.

Old reddit is still superior to hacker news. It was the perfect forum. Now it's a social media laced whale driven place filled with a single viewpoint. To the point that negative comments don't even show up anymore.

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

#135

Post by benhurmarcel »

effingwewt wrote: post #131
benhurmarcel wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't get what you're mentioning. If you open a thread (in a desktop browser tab), you get the discussions just like before.

Not true at all. It'll only show some of the comments others will be hidden until you click on them, making the screen jump around the screen as gp said. old.reddit.com alleviates this but not for much longer I'm sure. Then the lovely firefox will periodically decide not to allow 'trusted site exceptions' disallowing you from visiting old.reddit.com. All in all I find it's too much work most of the time.

I don't see it. For example I just loaded one of the top posts now ( https://imgur.com/a/qTUuPOq ), and I can scroll through the whole thread, without any click.

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

#136

Post by ecnahc515 »

blackrock wrote: post #104
sksnskkcahan wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an ad-supported service, I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit refuse to serve clients that don’t show ads. On the other hand, I don’t think their API that Apollo is using includes ads. Same deal with third-party Twitter clients. I wonder if their are examples of similar ad-supported services that included ads in the API, and required the developer of the third-party client to implement ad support?

Reddit should make an API feature to allow the 3rd party app, the ability to display the ads. Then, Reddit will do profit sharing of each ad shown. This would give the 3rd party app incentive to maintain the app.

Why would they do that when they could just fully control access with their app and not have to worry about ensuring other clients show ads?

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

#137

Post by com2kid »

hhjinks wrote: post #132
com2kid wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The whole new design is anti-user, the site is just masses of white space, super slow, JS heavy and pretty much unusable outside a third party mobile client. The day old.reddit.com gets shut down will be a sad day. On desktop the new design is much easier to use, it took me awhile to realize, but being able to hit esc and be right back where you were in the story feed is super nice.

What are you even talking about. All modern browsers will bring you back to the spot you were in when you go back to the previous page, and have for years.

Which works questionable well in an infinite scrolling situation.

Previously you'd get a token in the URL that was some type of state that hopefully let you resume, but it didn't work if you spent too long reading comments and then pressed the back button.

The new reddit UI solved this problem by simply not having users ever "leave" the home page.

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

#139

Post by Zren »

geuis wrote: post #52

Mmm I don’t think so. Gallery shows up fine. https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/jy14p1/i_combin... Note that I have my mobile settings to use the desktop version and I only use the old interface.

* 2020-11-21T00:35:26+00:00, your link * 2020-11-21T18:43:20+00:00, OP's link

It's possible there's a bug that rolled out affecting galleries posted after 1AM UTC.

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

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Post by kernel_pancake »

someperson wrote: post #25

Very good opportunity for a Reddit alternative to come in and dominate. Getting rid of old Reddit would be Digg v4 all over again.

A federated Reddit alternative called Lemmy is looking promising https://github.com/LemmyNet
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