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Reddit has a new look and feel (and thumbs)

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Re: Reddit has a new look and feel (and thumbs)

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Just awful. Why are they inventing their own terrible fonts? Why are UX (or font designers) still not understanding that L != I?

> https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/186up3s/hearts_thum...

(The new UI still remains awful and enshittified -- do UX designers not read any form of HIGs?)

Re: Reddit has a new look and feel (and thumbs)

#3

Just awful. Why are they inventing their own terrible fonts? Why are UX (or font designers) still not understanding that L != I? > https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/186up3s/hearts_thum... (The new UI still remains awful and enshittified -- do UX designers not read any form of HIGs?)

Trying to do whatever they can to bump engagement before IPO.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-27/reddit-le... | https://archive.today/zWJb8

Re: Reddit has a new look and feel (and thumbs)

#4
That's usually what happens when companies are on their last legs. They do anything they can to make things seem new and exciting when they really aren't.

Remember when X was Twitter? and Metaverse was FaceBook?

I wonder why companies go out of their way to change well-known brands and logos to something unrecognisable to most of the world.

Re: Reddit has a new look and feel (and thumbs)

#5

That's usually what happens when companies are on their last legs. They do anything they can to make things seem new and exciting when they really aren't. Remember when X was Twitter? and Metaverse was FaceBook? I wonder why companies go out of their way to change well-known brands and logos to something unrecognisable to most of the world.

it’s enshittification