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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 userbinator »

buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #53
zests wrote: post #36

I dislike all things "new web". The websites feel like layers upon layers of Javascript, fancy designs that feel like they are responsible for the decreased responsiveness. Styles delegated to the same CSS frameworks that everyone else uses. The rounded corners. Give me plain HTML, minimal CSS, and a template engine any day of the week.

I want to agree, but don't. Javascript is nice. Leave a comment on HN, then push back to go out to the home page. Wait, you're back at your comment. This flow is obviously not ideal, and would be prevented with a little Javascript.

I've been using HN without JS ever since I found this site, and it works perfectly fine.

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

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Post by userbinator »

gingericha wrote: post #20

Their video player is probably one of the worst I've experienced. It [1] requires me to hit play twice to get a video to actually play almost 100% of the time. [2] the audio frequently defaults to max, then adjusts to the level I've previously selected. [3] It frequently auto plays if I've scrolled down the feed a ways, and [4] frequently only plays 50% of the video and restarts or locks up.

I thought playing videos in a browser was a solved problem ever since was introduced, many years ago.

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

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Post by ffpip »

ozmbie wrote: post #46
worldmerge wrote: post #29

They have also made many of the subreddits not viewable via a mobile browser pushing you to the app, it seems though the blocks go in and out of effect. At some point metrics of a sites app downloads don't mean anything when they make their primary site unusable.

I deleted an unofficial Reddit app from my phone, since I found I was wasting too much time on it. I figured for the occasions I wanted access to reddit (mostly from searching for topics on Google), I’d just use the web version. But the web UI, combined with Google AMP, made it unusable. I’ve gone back to the app but with iOS screen time restrictions.

Apollo for Reddit is a great app made by a solo dev!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

That is until they become even more greedy and ban third party apps. Probably by the end of next year. The reasons will be 'privacy of users' and 'letting users access reddit via a unified interface'. Or some bs like that

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

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Post by nvrspyx »

morcheeba wrote: post #15
alasdair_ wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. The new UI is utterly obnoxious on mobile - they keep trying to force me to use the app, including making it impossible to read the rest of a forum without using the app instead. It's horrible.

It's obnoxious on a giant screen, too. I get 10 headlines on the old version, but the new version only shows me one story -- so much scrolling.

I prefer the old version too, but have you tried using the classic or compact layout option on the new version? I personally use the classic layout and have been much less frustrated with it.

https://imgur.com/a/SBifQIB

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

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Post by 1over137 »

cma wrote: post #38
ixwt wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've found you can google the subreddits, and they will show you these subreddits. As long as your referrer is still Google, it seems to be fine.

Shouldn't Google punish this in the results? A fake website that wants search traffic but doesn't want to operate as an actual website...

But it's good for google, isn't it? I mean, if ddg can't get me there, but google can, then it makes google better than their competitors (in the one regard).

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

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Post by sergiomattei »

alasdair_ wrote: post #9
LeoPanthera wrote: post #7

Their mistake was keeping the old interface around at all. If they had just killed it off we would have complained about it for a while and then just moved on.

Killing off the old interface and forcing users to use the new one is the reason Reddit still exists and Digg effectively does not.

Come on, are we really going to get this hyperbolic? The amount of people complaining about the interface is a vocal minority.

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

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Post by kayson »

tootie wrote: post #24
SheinhardtWigCo wrote: post #2

When old.reddit.com dies, it’s over.

https://i.reddit.com has been around for a very long time and hasn't changed at all. It can't play video but you can browse threads and it's lightning fast. Especially without thumbnails.

This is my goto. It's just so much faster!

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

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Post by millstone »

buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #53
zests wrote: post #36

I dislike all things "new web". The websites feel like layers upon layers of Javascript, fancy designs that feel like they are responsible for the decreased responsiveness. Styles delegated to the same CSS frameworks that everyone else uses. The rounded corners. Give me plain HTML, minimal CSS, and a template engine any day of the week.

I want to agree, but don't. Javascript is nice. Leave a comment on HN, then push back to go out to the home page. Wait, you're back at your comment. This flow is obviously not ideal, and would be prevented with a little Javascript.

The old web placed HTML and CSS as primary, and used JS for incidental tasks like form validation, or fixing up the back button. The big idea was "graceful degradation": sites were expected to work without JS, at the cost of (say) a server-side error instead of immediate feedback.

Modern reddit does not gracefully degrade: it requires JS to click buttons, to load images, to scroll, etc. Old reddit still works well without JS. So does Google for that matter.

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

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Post by edjrage »

Pxtl wrote: post #56
buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to agree, but don't. Javascript is nice. Leave a comment on HN, then push back to go out to the home page. Wait, you're back at your comment. This flow is obviously not ideal, and would be prevented with a little Javascript.

Also, it would be basically impossible to host comment threads on video content if the video reset every time you submitted a comment. By comparison, Twitter's video experience is still awful in that you can't multitask and join the conversation on a video tweet.

Ever heard of iframes?
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