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

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

#21

Post by ezekg » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:16 PM UTC

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 always use the old design.

I also finally caved and downloaded their mobile app because I got tired of all of the nagging. I feel like they intentionally broke their mobile experience to push users to the app so they could increase ad revenue. I'm sad I caved, but I just couldn't take the BS experience any longer.

Makes me sick.

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

#22

Post by askafriend » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:22 PM UTC

It's terrible. I say that as someone who usually likes exploring redesigns and new software products.

It's clear what it's optimized for and the user or the user expereince is not it.

What's especially annoying is that the mobile website is unreadable since they use growth tactics at every step to try to funnel you into their native mobile app.

I pretty much still browse on old.reddit.com.

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

#23

Post by krisgee » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:24 PM UTC

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…

The third party reddit apps are a lot better. I prefer Reddit Is Fun on Android but I know there are several good options besides that on both mobile platforms.

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

#24

Post by exolymph » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:36 PM UTC

I can tell you already that 99.99% of Hacker News commenters are going to say they hate the new design. And it does suck! But we're not the population that Reddit redesigned for.

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

#25

Post by khrbrt » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:37 PM UTC

The new design shows images from links on the page. It's faster for redditors to upvote an image on the page they find vaguely aggreeable than to click a link, wait for it load, decides if they like it, go back and upvote it. This eventually leads to all the top voted threads to be vaguely agreeable images, crowding out everything else.

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

#26

Post by joezydeco » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:38 PM UTC

krisgee wrote: post #23

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…

The third party reddit apps are a lot better. I prefer Reddit Is Fun on Android but I know there are several good options besides that on both mobile platforms.

Apollo on iOS is fast and easy. Would recommend to anyone.

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

#27

Post by hjk05 » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:38 PM UTC

Their metics on the redesign isn’t “like it vs. dislike it” it’s “actively hates it vs. hates it but not enough to care”

But at least they didn’t digg it and kill the site outright, and instead just started to see how much nagging and annoyance they can pull their faithful user base through before they break.

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

#28

Post by eden_hazard » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:41 PM UTC

krisgee wrote: post #23

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…

The third party reddit apps are a lot better. I prefer Reddit Is Fun on Android but I know there are several good options besides that on both mobile platforms.

Reddit is fun on Android is so much better than official reddit one.

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

#29

Post by bg4 » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:50 PM UTC

I wonder if Reddit will one day trigger a Digg-like death for themselves?

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

#30

Post by collyw » Fri, Apr 05, 2019, 9:51 PM UTC

I preferred the old one though the new one is slowly growing on me. I do like the way that posts seem to be in a popup that get closed rather than having to use the back button.

Is it just me or is the quality of Reddit posts on any mainstream sub going down? If feels like its going the way of Digg.