Reddit has made it clear they dont want me as a user. I avoid that cesspool.
Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
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#182I have setup my reddit account to use the old reddit, because for the desktop, the old one is much better than the new one.
However, on my phone, the new one is better.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s not the designers’ fault, it’s developers seeing everything as a technology problem rather than a user needs problem Yes, but in a big company developers don't define the product, (product) designers do.
“Big company” developers: do you call yourself “Unit 3829” or “autonomous drone 283”? Because seeing comments like above so frequently, you’d think developers are sacred and never do wrong but have no free will or input.
Funny you should say that, I just had a fun email exchange with the leader of Procurement Team 13-T.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#184>It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site. The irony of this statement is that Reddit _really_ became popular when Digg, who was the top link sharing site at the time, rolled out a new clunky ad-friendly redesign that caused a mass exodus of users to Reddit.
...which makes me wonder if this could ever happen again today, given that all of our data is being pushed into tighter and tighter silos with less integration than ever before (I'll admit Reddit has been better in this regard with its API and abundance of 3rd party clients). It seems like a lot of social networks rely on the network effect more than their actual features, and in the worst case they can just e.g. imp…
I don't think it could happen today. Reddit has too much critical mass and the community is too diverse. Back then Digg was a smaller and more close-knit community of mostly techies that mostly agreed on the same things. There was a movement a few years ago where some Redditors tried to create a Reddit alternative called Voat, which ultimately failed.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#185I like the new style, but the execution seems less than ideal.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#186Reddit was best when it had almost the excact user interface as this site, hacker news.
All sites are best with simple interfaces. So sick of web 2.0 bullshit. I just want simple paginated interfaces.
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#187> It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site. It's not the first one really. I can count many products that i use daily and have gone down the drain. There is obviously some "change for the sake of change" or just to get a promotion here. Reddit, Skype, adsense off top of my head
Also countless google examples, but they like to get rid of entire popular products.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#188I literally cannot log out of the new Reddit design on mobile. The log out link simply does not work from Chrome. Clearing my cookies for reddit.com does not solve the problem. It baffles my mind both how this is possible and how the system could be designed so poorly that the situation exists at all.
I get around it by using an alternative client, "reddit is fun", when I want to use an alt.
Re: Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?
#189The new design is godawful and unusable, especially without JavaScript. Switching to old.reddit.com is a breath of fresh air. The juxtaposition seems like an ideal case study in how bad modern web design is. I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.
It’s not the designers’ fault, it’s developers seeing everything as a technology problem rather than a user needs problem (and I’m speaking as a developer). The best solution for any given problem is usually the simplest, at least until you find that you specifically need extra complexity to solve a user need. Unfortunately modern client-side development is fixed in a mindset of developer efficiency above all, which…
Setting aside modern FE development practices, are you trying to say that the redesign of the reddit UI and it's poor usability is due developers choice of tools instead of what designers created?