As a 14-year long user, the new Fisher Price UI makes me sad :( What have they done to you, Reddit?
Notice there is only 1 full headline (from /r/NoStupidQuestions) visible, it doesn't even show the full post. There are 3 of those "trending" boxes but only 2 of those even fit their headlines because they are like 3 words long, they cut off anything longer including the description
I originally became addicted to Reddit because of how streamlined it was to skim dozens of headlines and pick from lots of content, seems they have decided content is not something they want to provide anymore :/
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Wow that's pretty horrible.
It's amazing what you miss due to 10 years of browsing with RIF and RES as mandatory installs
"miss"
Digg redesign vibes
The day that digg launched that new design was the last day I ever logged into that site. Why do people fuck up things that work?
Things that work aren't profitable (enough). A thing that works is good for expanding customer base. A thing that almost works is good for profit per customer base. The thing is... A thing that works and is sustainable to maintain provides the most long term profits. There's no legal requirement a company grow in scope, but most investors (both in small and large companies) see that as the only way. Reddit has been operating on an unsustainable business model. Their core feature set is simple. Their userbase was loyal, and willing to pay for Reddit gold to directly keep the website running. The holes in their sustainability were a huge staff to develop features to grow their customer base despite no one wanting or asking for those features, a terrible ad model that left money on the table by not putting ads where they'd have the most effect (why did I always get Ford ads on r/FuckCars, never Taco Bell ads on r/ShittyFoodPorn, no small online stationary shops on r/FountainPens?) and not returning ads in API calls, and finally an API model that went from free to impossible to justify overnight. But no one on the board of directors is interested in a business that consistently makes money over the long term. They want to make as much money as possible all in one go.
Let me ask you this. Which is better? To run a small coffee roaster that employs 8 people and serves coffee through one physical shop and one online store front to a loyal fan base by serving a high quality product in small batches, or to be massive coffee company, shadowed in scale only by Starbucks and Peets, but going into bankruptcy because you can't keep up with Starbucks and Peets? I'd take the consistent sustainable business every time, but too many people want to be the big winner with the bankrupt company, and the result is the small investors, the ones who bought into the big coffee company, or Reddit, end up holding the bag while the people who took their money deploy their golden parachutes
Your example of Reddit’s evolution underscores the challenges that companies face when striving to balance the demands of expansion, customer satisfaction, and financial stability. As companies grow, there’s often a temptation to introduce new features, expand into new markets, or chase the latest trends, even if these decisions may not align with the core needs and desires of their customer base. This can lead to inefficiencies, overspending, and sometimes even a dilution of the very qualities that made the company popular in the first place.
How profitable did Digg get? It’s definitely a tight rope and the fact that we’re discussing this on Lemmy is a testament to how a lot of the user base feels now.
Great insight
Designers want to get promoted, or get good bonuses for having impact. Product Managers are similarly incentivized to make changes, to improve some metric that they believe helps their business. If these structures exist, and the people making changes don't understand what the users want, or their incentives are misaligned... it's inevitable
This makes me think of Microsoft. I get the impression it's a software and technology company run by suits who are completely detached from end users and every decision is made purely from pie charts, analytics with no nuances included and designers itching to be promoted whispering in their ear.
So many things that worked perfectly - things people have learned where they are and how to use them for decades get changed for apparently no other reason than just to change them and a constant push to redesign everything into a path towards using one of their new services that already has better existing external services people were quite happy using.
Like if your product is good and works don't start a new product then start changing the original product solely to integrate the new product. That's bad for the existing users and customers.
It just seems like a constant thing with them that always leads back to squeezing more data and money out of users at the detriment to everything else then gaslighting users by using phrases like "improved user experience"
I actually just scrolled down some more after writing all this and there's a good comment with some of they whys on what I was saying
https://slrpnk.net/comment/1679100
“Promoted to the level of incompetence”
They had an impact alright.
Yep, same here.
It obviously is a sustainable business. What they want to do is fatten the cow before slaughter
Yeah, but only because Reddit wants to become more than they are! All the coins, nfts (yes, they already sell them), useless functions and redesigns they implemented over the years, while simultaneously giving a shit about what made Reddit useful and interesting. They had a chance to be better than the rest and give us (and by that I mean user who used Reddit often) a way to pay for what we liked but more and more they pushed people like me away with all the convoluted and microtransactiony way to spend money.
Eh, whatever. I like it here better now!
Eh, I don't pay for Tv or have a lot of subscriptions but I actually pay for YouTube premium because there are channels I follow for more than ten years at this point. And because I know that some of this money goes to the creators (not all, I know) I feel like it's money well spent for content I actually enjoy. So, with all that said: if Reddit would have given me an option to pay a reasonable amount to browse it on an app of my choice I am pretty sure I would have done that, because some of content and communities were also a part of my life for way longer than ten years.
I can kinda see where you are coming from, though. Not enough people would have paid the way I would have done. People like free stuff. I do too.
The more I think about it. I think you’re right. No more 0% loans so cheap debt is hard and interest starts accruing.
That was my first thought as well
I think Reddit doesn’t realize that what made their UI so appealing was precisely that it felt really functional and bare bones, like Craigslist still does or Google used to. As if it was designed by nerds who just wanted the most functional site. It makes it seem more trustworthy and neutral, less monetized.
This redesign looks painfully corporate.
I used RIF for the longest time and I just can't with the official app. It's already awful and if that's what the website looks like now then the app will have a worse UI soon.
You guys are still using Reddit?
Also i need talklittle to either port rif or make it open source so we can port it ourselves ;-;
Unfortunately he is making it for tildes, a platform run by a single admin who bans people who have discussions about difficult topics
Yeah that's what I've seen too, I don't know why he chose tildes? It's not talked about, like at all. Seems like a big chunk of his userbase came over here
The admin there who owns the place seems to want to keep it small, so yes no clue why he is making his app over there at this point. It's clear the owner of tildes doesn't want the place to grow. He just wants a bunch of people circle jerking each other in their echo chamber.
Difficult topics = dog whistle
Uhh, no...I was banned for discussing a topic about how obesity is the number one killer and not tobacco...how is that a dog whistle?
But to people like you, anything you disagree with... instant nazi right?
No, just Nazi stuff.
I use Connect and it is the closest thing to RIF. Over the last few weeks the app has improved a ton.
Ooo, I'll have to check it out. I'm on Jerboa, which is good but I miss the buttons for snappy movements between comments that rif had the most
I know right I feel like I'm going crazy but no other app has these buttons and no one else mentioned them
Connect for Lemmy has the buttons, but also has these weird animations and they're slightly different (like they don't exist for nested comments, just the return to parent button)
+1 for connect from another RIF migrant here.
How do I send you and the developer $5
The devs info is in this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/2614066 . There is a link to "send him a coffee". I don't need the cash, so give my $5 to them. ;)
I check in on one specific community and feel sad that the users are still there. But one of them signed up here today so there is hope!
I was being a little cheeky, I get it. I have a personal feed of reddit posts that get pulled from the subs i miss without me needing to visit the site.
The migration will be slow, but hopefully steady! Honestly, the lack of content kinda sucks but its much higher quality and the discussions here are way more personal which is really nice.
Any tips how you pull stuff to read out of Reddit? RSS or something else?
I wrote a python script that uses the API (unauthenticated), it's still in early stages right now but I intend to clean it up over the coming days and then publish it on GitHub -- I'll send you a link when i do :)
That would be great! Thanks!
Still use reddit and twitter for sports news and updates and a few fringe topics and I read only. Shut down my reddit account around 2019 and only have a twitter account because its a pain to view stuff if not logged in. Have never posted anything there.
try nitter.poast.org
Topics on the side. "Gaming, Sports, Business, Crypto..." Reddit trying really hard to pretend it's not just around for porn and memes. Also, crypto lol. Tech bro a little harder, spez.
And celeb gossips.
Sigh.
Dude idk crypto was fucking DROWNING r/all for a long time, maybe still is I eventually blocked it, so I get why they added it. And I think the type of person who would stick around on reddit or start now would still be into/interested in starting crypto.
I hope it is obvious that is not a compliment.
I basically blocked every single crypto community. But around the time of the GameStop bullshit, a LOT more of them started cropping up. I thought I was safe, then two days later another one pops up. And it was always the same non-discussion bullshit.
Worse than a scam, crypto is a cult.
It's the bro MLM
no you're thinking of football (either one)
r/buttcoin, which basically exists to shine a light on all the crypto shenanigans has more real person engagement that all the bot infested crypto subs
Yeah, that really feels like there is a huge disconnect with their core user-base 🤦🏻♂️
True, at this point they might as well rebrand to PM&C: porn, memes and crypto
We are no longer their target audience, they don't care what made it appealing to us. They are trying to position themselves as being the same as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook.
I think when companies that originally offered something unique and desirable get large enough, they necessarily lose touch with what made them indispensable. Dollar signs lead to a notion of growth that summons a many-tentacled cocaine-caked Moloch of feature creep, tech bandwagon hopping, information siloing, data harvesting, advertiser worshiping, and corporate evil that is, at best, indifferent to user experience, but more typically actively antagonistic to it.
At first glance I thought it was youtube.
Is the old.reddit.com still usable or is that fucked up too?
old.reddit.com is still kickin it. No talk I've heard of to get rid of it yet. The second it's gone I'm gone.
In case you didn't know and for everyone else that prefers the old UI there is a clone for lemmy.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
lemmy.world has it installed at https://old.lemmy.world. The creator has it running at https://mlmym.org/ for other instances that don't have it installed.
Wow that's pretty accurate.
Wow, I never knew that was a thing! Old Reddit style Lemmy needs to be brought up more.
It was on the front page of lemmy.world for a bit.
It doesn't have some modern conveniences like the ability to block just FYI to those reading along at home. It's pretty bit it's not as functional as many others.
Same for https://old.lemmy.zip /
Old Reddit is Reddit. If they get rid of it, I'm sure as fuck not sticking around for this new site. It looks like Bing and Youtube had a deformed little monster-child.
It seems they recently fucked up something with i.redd.it handling - opening image links from old reddit always redirects to https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/media/nice_hat/ for a few days now.
No that's intentional. They no longer allow direct i.redd.it image linking, it forces a redirect to a landing page that is either old.reddit if you're logged in and force it, or new reddit with a "get the app, doofus" nag screen for anyone not logged in.
They didn't want anyone using Reddit as an image hosting service or - God forbid! - viewing Reddit content without delivering every ounce of their personal data and ad revenue to Spez.
It's ironic because i.reddit links work perfectly fine to repost content on Lemmy
Well it hasn't worked for inline embeds for me for a hot minute. You can still browse to it of course, but now you have to open a new tab and deal with the "GET APP!!!" pop-ups every 3 seconds.
yeah same here... I was like, youtube has text posts now?
Text posts on YouTube are pretty nice though. I like that people can post channel updates like saying there's gonna be a delay on a video or something without having to film and post a video to do so.
Bro what in the msn.com is this
If it was Fischer-Price, it would be colorful. This is just the sort of bland, generic website UI you see everywhere
Remember, people complained Windows XP was a Fisher-Price OS. I don't think this redesign will affect Reddit long-term, unfortunately.
Honestly, I would take the look of Windows XP over the look of Windows 10/11 or current MacOS. Of course, I'm on Linux, so I actually can do that
On an unrelated note, meet my daily driver!
(Complete with sounds, boot screen and login screen.)
Looks great, but do the windows jiggle when you drag them? Mine do
Ie. An easily censorable ui, it's for Chinese interests.
Probably AI generated
It's not. It's a common mathematical fallacy stumbled upon by crackpots who think they're geniuses and have found a fundamental problem with math.
There's a math professor at Harvard who gets sent this "proof" like once a month.
Yeah, am I the only one who wants to track down that post and tell them how stupid they are?
She's dead. Move on, friend
The fact that crypto is listed on the side makes me wanna bump my head on the wall.
The whole thing in general looks like a mobile app stretched to fit on a monitor. I mean, that's how most websites are in 2023.
That's not a mobile first principal. Mobile first design and development includes progressive enhancement as the viewport grows. You can make a website that operates perfectly on mobile and desktop. These fucks just don't actually adhere to any philosophies or standards. Don't blame mobile first, which is a brilliant approach, for the shortcomings of a dumb-ass company like Reddit.
It's called "responsive design" i think. I played around with it a bit when learning html years ago. You can get free website templates that have this cooked in - like, you don't need to code anything. Seems easy to do and pretty much an industry standard now. Pretty weird that reddit would choose a trashy option instead.
Responsive design is approach you can use as part of your mobile first development. There are others, but responsive is a good one.
So much white space.....so many frames...so much waste....I can't look away....it's whispering to me ....
Mandatory Website Obesity Crisis mention, TL;DR:
A lot of apps are also just web wrappers for a mobile site.... It's obvious with some apps, others are a bit harder to see, but it's there.
Low effort app developing.
funnily enough, it literally fucking is, this was originaly their mobile site.
Legit thought you were on YouTube.
It looks like a news site from 2012, and it actually looks like it's trying to imitate digg lol
Seriously me too!! I was paying more attention to the TV show I was watching and was wondering what was so remarkable about the same old YouTube layout. I had to wait for it to end to really look at the picture DAYUMN it looks like YouTube. Wtf reddit what a weird thing to copy
Almost like when they replaced the reddit app with one that looked just like Instagram. Reddit has no originality I guess.
Hard to build a good looking website with just 2000 employees
The worst part is that the Lemmy photon ui (m.lemmy.zip) is also modern looking, just way more practical (also has settings to make it less padded)
Looks like they copied youtubes front page.
I absolutely thought this was YouTube.
Wtf.
If pages like this don't tell you "What's Hot" how the fuck do you propose we find out what is hot?
Ask Paris Hilton
Or just look up her video.
I was thinking Yahoo
O_o
So stop using it. Ffs, this place circle jerks over how bad that place is, and then you dumb mother fuckers keep going back. Move on already.
Eh. it's one thing always talking about Reddit in more general communities, but this is a Reddit community.
The magazine is called ‘Reddit’.. what are you doing here if you’re tired of hearing about it?
Getting news about Reddit and ideally its downfall is why I'm here. Reading people complain about it and then turn around and support it is not. Initially I subbed to this right after I left to see what was happening without going back. Now it's often just a bunch of idiots jerking each other off while redditing.
you read?
this community is specifically about reddit, like we talk about reddit here
go to some other community and ignore this one
… but then how are they going to complain about Reddit?
or complain about the people complaining about Reddit.
So, everyone who didn't choose to abandon the platform you yourself admit to have been using until recently, at the exact time that you decided was appropriate to abandon it completely, is an idiot? I think you should try to recalibrate your attitude regarding things like this my friend. That's an unnecessarily harsh way to view other people's choices IMO. It poisons the conversation, but more importantly, it poisons your own mood.
I haven't been back since June 12th so I get what you're saying but the name of this mag is reddit, it seems like an appropriate place to talk about it.
What? I will always use reddit as long as it has good content that I can't find elsewhere. Still spend lots of time here to help Lemmy grow and make it eventually get better than reddit.
Oh, believe me, my usage has dropped by around 95%
that looks like youtube. is that how non old.reddit looks like?
LOL. They went full Digg. I abandoned Digg for Reddit, and now Reddit for Lemmy.
same. slashdot to digg, digg to reddit, now reddit to lemmy.
Usenet to digg, digg to reddit, reddit to lemmy.
Oh, I never stopped using usenet 😅
I skipped the digging part of that, thank God.
Before Slashdot was Yahoo though. Remember when it was a basic search engine, then they made it "your home on the internet" or some shit and homepage was cluttered? This is what reddit reminds me of
Same here, oh well
That's why we can't have nice things
I went 4chan, Imgur, Reddit, Squabblr, and now Lemmy. Been a hell of a ride
Same. Bonus, I also abandoned Fark for Digg.
This is the third time I've watched a fantastic service shit it's pants in public.
Well at least it's better than the previous layout that squished everything into the center and had a ton of dead space on the sides.
It looks like YouTube now. But with text. lol
Precisely what it reminded me of, I think the way they should've gone is modernising the way they show dozens of post per scroll.
it’s facebook….
You don’t show full posts because then your team gets to count an ‘active’ user when people click to expand.
Metrics becoming the goal 101 and active user growth is important to get investors to hold the bag for your VCs. Every action right now, that the VC money is getting scarce is aimed at making Reddit look like a profitable target for street investors so your VCs can cash out. Doesn’t matter if what you do isn’t sustainable, because you are the VCs bitch now and they want their payout before you crash and burn.
JFC that’s hilariously hideous. Well done spez you fucking wank stain
Remember when they hid NSFW content from r/all and they said they would add a new filter that did contain the content?
Now you can't even select r/all from the drop down menu on their app. You have to open the sidebar, scroll all the way to the bottom, then select it. No way of setting it as the default. Classic algorithm push for advertisers.
Tbf r/all sucks balls and I don’t go there anymore. I come here.
That's sucks. Left after 10 years. I almost always browsed /all and just set up filters. Tons of filters.
I miss the random porn sprinkled in with my news and memes.
The stupidity of the post is so attractive though. Perfect nerd click bait.
Tbf it was actually a lot less stupid than the average "nostupidquestions"
It looks like typo and then just keeps going with it.
You mean 14 year-long user of Fisher Price products? :3
they are becoming Digg 3.0
yup. glad I left, what a trashfire.
GREAT WORK SPEZ YOU DIPSHIT
....is your handle a PowerPuff Girls reference? Take my upvote.
Kinda? mojojojo is always good but was thinking of things that had the o-o... because u/arglebargle was taken. that guy.... jeeeze.
What the ever-living fuck is this bullshit? I'm glad I abandoned Reddit before they started this bullshit.
At least Old Reddit is still available. Right? I think? But for how long?
It is available, for now. I refuse to use reddit's terrible mobile app, so when they kill old.reddit.com I'll be gone for good.
Only a matter of time before they squash that, it has very little ads.
It is still available
For now...
Alright which reddit dev just found out about inspect elements? Dude straight up went to youtube, pressed F12 and started copy pasting lol.
I thought as soon as I opened it are they trying to look sexy to Google and how easy they can adapt or something
Honestly, I think the UI looks okay. I dislike the trending boxes which makes my brain think they are ads.
it's because they will be mixing in some ads there after a while.
They’re turning it into a magazine - wonder when they’ll add personalisation algo
It's already there, no ? They suggest content in my frontpage from subreddit I'm not subscribed to.
Oh yeah? I’ve never used the main app/site
After tiktok, all these social media companies want you to endlessly scroll
Fuck Reddit and all, but old.reddit.com if you MUST go there.
I wonder how long it'll be until they shut down old reddit.
I read this as "As a 14 year old user" and thought that was an impressive Fisher Price reference for a 14 year old lol
LOL I originally did draft it that way when I was submitting, but changed it so it didn't sound like I was 14!
Why does this image remind me of Quora?
I hate Quora so much that I Pi-Holed so that if I, for whatever reason, think it's a good idea to click the stupid link in search results.... It won't connect.
Oh dear god, we don't need two Quoras!
Isn't it a setting in profile on desktop to do that on every left click? Or was that removed? I turned it on because the back button after viewing post screwed up so often. I was on old reddit, and it's been since right before black out since I've been there.
Reddit has been Digging themselves a grave and it's both hilarious and tragic. How fucking stupid of a user generated content farm to shoot themselves in the foot and actively antagonize the people that made the site relevant. Top tier dipshittery.
Doing a Digg would have involved removing the old version of the site.
Literally the only advantage of New Reddit is the fancy-pants editor, which isn't even available on their fucking official app.
Even Sync on Lemmy has better support for rich text editing.
On my machine it doesn’t even take up the whole window. The left column is pushed out to the right, giving less space for actual content. Do they have UX engineers? This is very bad, especially when you can go to the old site and get a ton more info on one page instantly.
At first when they changed the layout I thought it was to try and mimic a mobile phone kind of layout, portrait instead of landscape sort of, to make it identical on pc and phone. Not that it made sense then, But they’re pushing everyone to their shite app so it makes even less sense now.
Is this perhaps to lower backend requests, while forcing users to scroll more? I hate the amount of scrolling needed on the phone sometimes. 🤔
I legit thought this was a parody.
Looks like Yahoo! in ca. 2002.
Lol I just posted another reply before reading this with basically the exact same thing.
So it's true then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Don't insult Windows XP by comparing it to this trash.
This is why old.lemmy.world is a godsend.
I thought so too, but I prefer a.lemmy.world at the moment, very similar to old. in that lots of post visible, but with some good QoL improvements, suchs as posts sliding in from the side, dark colors. icons instead of text, nice infinite scrolling.
Neither has a button for the crosspost functionality which kinda sucks.
Looks like one of those clickbait content websites that pop up on social media. I guess this is what you get when everything is aimed at ad revenue and short term profit. Next logical step, sell the thing to some corpo while is still relevant.
To be fair what's the functional difference between a few pixels cut from the corners of a box?
Images might get slightly cut, but, as long as it is only on preview, you'll still see the full rectangle when you actually open the content, while previews (cover art, or whatever it may be) will be tailored to be displayed in such a format
this is the (relatively) new sh.reddit.com ui (which is now the default for logged off users; it's actually much lighter then new reddit and doesn't use much js and barely has any tracking), logging in should grant you access to new.reddit.com; and of course good old old.reddit.com is always there (install RES; hit Shift+X to expand images)
old.reddit.com still works for me
So many ads. It's like every fourth post is actually an ad.
Yikes.
uBlock works on those
Unblock origin + I still don't care about cookies = easy surfing
I block the ads, pretty decent experience imo
You just think it does
What doesn't work with that view?
I have noted that RES never-ending Reddit seems to have been borked, with duplicate posts appearing both sides of the page break. I'm running ublock origin and pihole which might contribute to it.
I've noticed the same. Annoying, but better than the alternative. It also stops my non-stop scrolling so that's a positive side effect lol
I don't know. I think this new Facebook UI looks about the same as it was before. Oh, this is Reddit? lol
Wow that is worse than i expected
Wait, that's the front page? At first I thought it was an individual post page and the complaint was more about all the things surrounding the post. Instead, they take up almost the entire screen to show a single post?
yes, that's the plain vanilla logged out experience of reddit.com w/ a private browsing window
UI is the smallest of all problem about Reddit right now
Which is saying a lot given that the UI is atrocious
Eww, I have a plugin to automatically go to old.reddit, so I didn't know they changed it again and made it even worse!
Can you share the plugin name?
Old reddit redirect.
first i thought i watching YouTube
Another to be glad I stopped using reddit.
Okay, so does anyone wanna talk about the math thingy in the post?
They jump from 0.99999... = 1 to 0.99999... = 1 - 1 in the step where they introduce the limit, because the value of the limit they wrote is 1, not the 0 they probably thought it was. So the whole thing is a crapshoot from the start - functionally no different from setting up 1 = 1 - 1, simplifying to 1 = 0, and claiming you broke math
If it started: 0.999... = 1 - lim(1/n) then maybe we can talk, but I have no idea where 0.999... = 1 - lim(1 - 1/n) comes from, that's just incorrect
According to math 0.999=1??? Who is this guy’s math dealer?
That part's real - not for 0.999 but for 0.999... (repeating). The classic proof goes:
Let x = 0.999999...
Then multiply both sides by 10. You now have:
10x = 9.999999.....
Now subtract the first equation from the second equation. You get:
10x - x = 9.999999... - 0.999999...
9x = 9
Then divide by 9 to complete the proof:
x = 1
That’s a neat little proof, TIL.
Also 1/3 is 0.333 recurring.
So 1/3 x 3 is 0.999 recurring. But 1/3 x 3 is also 1.
No, not TIL, you're supposed to say QED 😋 just kidding
You can't find another number that fits between those 2 numbers... therefore they are the same.
Not really
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
Seen here.
We used 3th party apps that still had all those features and didnt look like shit hehe
Reminds me of Digg. They turned into a very pretty ghost town.
Reminds me of yahoo back in the day. Tons of shit on the screen with no actual substance.
dude thinks he disproves mathematics before checking his work
Wow they seriously did me a favor by kicking me off the site.
I loved the old school forum style when I joined. It looks like facebook or what I imagine Facebook looks like these days. I don’t know who this design is for, but it’s not for me.
I mean if I wanted to say something positive, I actually like it more than their previous "new age" UI, but mostly because unlike that one, this no longer lags as badly. It's still way too much JS and way too large images, but at least it feels they found a single web dev or something and let them do an hour of work.
Design is a subjective thing, I don't like it but I also didn't like the one of the previous one so that's a wash. But at least this one works somewhat better.
Yeah I am just having a look on my phone and it runs smoother than the "old new" design for me. The "classic" view it defaults to isn't bad either.
It does not show the OP on the front page until you go into the comments or a subreddit, and for whatever reason has the comments button open a new tab which I don't like.
With a few tweaks, I'd hapilly use it if I had to. I'd always prefer old reddit's design though.
It kind of looks like Google’s stuff (Drive, Email) which to be honest is starting to feel dated.
Worse than I could imagine lol.
I've always opted out of the new design in settings
Called it: https://lemmy.zip/post/1239944
What a fucking disgrace. Barf.
There is an awesome 'old rexxit' theme for lemmy, ask your favourite instance admin to install it (I don't know the proper name but they should be able to figure it out). I honestly forget I'm not on the old site sometimes.
Eeewww
Super dumb question, is it possible to switch UI's on reddit? I think on lemmy is (?) 😗
You can still use the old UI, by adding old to the reddit link: old.reddit.com
That feature will probably be gone soon tho
Thanks!!
There are some browser extensions that can do this for you.
Old Reddit Redirect is one I found with a quick search. Also available for Firefox. (I can't remember which extension I use)
or just disable new reddit from old reddit settings, that redirects all regular reddit.com/ reqests to old reddit
That requires actually needing an account.
yeah there are three uis:
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I found myself on Reddit by way of Google the other day while looking for an answer to a niche question. I noticed that whatever post I clicked on opened in a new window (on mobile). Maybe it's just been that long, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember this being the default behavior. Reddit's other shenanigans aside, any site that seems to use target="_blank" for every link has definitely lost my eyeballs.
I fell the opposite, if I'm on a link aggregator, I always want to open links in another tab so I don't lose my place like I often do when clicking back
Is there any way to undo that? I don't visit reddit that often but when I do I'd rather be able to see
Of course. New Reddit has been a ridiculous travesty since the start, even with continued development and refinement. There are so many stupid and annoying things about it. It also has a lot of performance problems compared to the old UIs - not just slowness, but issues like the video player crashing or just stopping, and it doesn't do that in old reddit. Also they try to restrict you and guide you to the app in ways that old reddit does not - saying a post is for mature audiences and you have to use the app, for instance. But then you can view it on old reddit with no problem.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
How can you expect something like a social media website, so recently conceived, to persist in its present form so long? Everything changes so fast. Remember when televisions were these big boxes and there were only three channels?
Televisions have improved. Reddit has not.
Excuse me, but, what the hell are you talking about?
What's all this stuff about plants?
"Flat panel" TVs have been a thing for almost three decades. Reddit was doing just fine until "new" Reddit became a thing and it steadily declined into insanity... More than a decade into it's success, they redesigned it and in less than half the time it took them to build the site up, they've driven a large number of users off with their insane choices.
Look, the only reason that Reddit hasn't collapsed is because of the 80/20 rule in business, applied to Reddit it would be that 80% of the activity on the site is coming from 20% of the userbase. A LARGE chunk of that 20% has jumped ship, either to Lemmy or somewhere else. So they're staying afloat on the 80% of lurkers and low value users, plus a small group of people too dedicated to Reddit, or too stubborn to believe it's sinking.
Reddit has been around for ~15 years, and 2/3rda of that time was building something, and in the last 1/3rd, they wrecked it. That's a long long time for something as prominent as Reddit to be around. And this will not be a quick death for them. It will take many years before spez realizes how badly he's fucked himself. By the time he does, everyone will be deeply engrained in wherever they landed.
All fair points, but
I can only imagine that you've also said things like "we are indoors, nobody is beating around any bushes" or "how can you have the best of both worlds? There's only one world" or "there's no way you could 'knock it out of the park', we're not playing baseball".
I was being hyperbolic. :)
Is that how people do that on your planet?
I actually really like the redesign. It looks very modern to me, and the website feels a great deal more responsive.
I think you're fucking stupid... And / or spez
Well he has a point. It looks cleaner overall. But old.reddit is so much more information-dense that I happily accepted a 20 years old ui. Also rip subreddit css.
It looks like fucking advertising approved trash
It is a lot faster and cleaner. Just my opinion, it's an improvement over the laggy mess of a website they have right now with bloated JavaScript.
Anyways, have a good one.
Am I the only one who likes this? It's much better than New Reddit and Old Reddit.
If I hadn't left yet, this would prompt me to leave
I'm sure you're not alone, but IMO, most of the people on Lemmy are here because they don't like this, and don't like things like this.
I was a long time old.reddit.com user, because even the new interface was really terrible. I couldn't browse comments correctly, after two or three there would be some promoted or related post and I'd have to squint to find the "show more comments" button... It became a cesspool of turds, all cross-linked and bound together in nonsensical ways. 90% of what made Reddit great IMO, was the discussion on every post. The diversity of opinions, additional information, analysis and opinions from every walk of life.... It was glorious.
Karma whoring was prevalent but if you dug through what was posted in the comments, you could see just about any point of view on something.
By comparison, this is clickbait rainbow vomit.
I'm not necessarily saying the content of the picture is ideal, I just think there's something to be said for clean interfaces that aren't jam packed with text.
Well, this isn't jam packed with anything.
Unless you count bullshit, because it's full of that.
You also hang your TP backwards, don't you?!
I'm not big on making predictions, but I don't see them keeping old.reddit long term.