They've been closed-source for a while longer. Some changes on the live site took months to arrive in the open source repo, if they ever did.

I bet they have a lot of “conversions” because a significant portion of their user base don’t log in and use the site to interact with others, they just browse the front page of some particular sub or thread they ran across. Not something you can exactly do with FB for example. Of course, the redesign is so badly broken it will dump you back to the old view half the time. But they have this weird sort of captive yet passive audience that sees what is delivered by default via the front page and the default subs.

> The general consensus seems that the re-design has a horrible user experience for most people.

Maybe on r/redesign that's the consensus, but that's ignoring the rest of the users that doesn't care.

I can't read Reddit without logging in because that's what applies all my filters. It's a much more agreeable site once you strip off all the politics subreddits. Now I just need a way to filter off the karma whores like gallowboob.

When I most recently logged in on a new computer, the new UI still persists. I suspect that's being rolled out slowly.

that’s what happens to me, except it’s delayed by 30 seconds because it loads so slowly.

This something people keep bringing up but many people have pointed out that Digg didn't just redesign their site. They changed the way the site worked.