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Comment by randycupertino | Hacker News Reader

New Reddit is horrific. If they ever get rid of old reddit it will cure me of my reddit addiction for good.

Exactly this. Old reddit is good for you but bad. Just disable old reddit already. Liberate me!

how come reddit has become such a bad habit? it works ok for me as a general purpose forum, as long as i avoid the major political subs

Because every major sub is also a political sub, now.

To build on this point, even the discussions which aren’t literally US politics are predominantly incredibly negative. To a degree that’s the internet these days, but Reddit exhibits it quite strongly.

but reddit is topical. If you frequent only well-moderated communities you don't really have that, even in political subreddits. E.g. r/machinelearning, r/futurology, r/goldandblack

That is also a HN thing, sadly. At least on reddit, it is easier to find a different community.

Agreed. I've given "new" reddit tons of chances. I've tried it out for days at a time, only to find that I was annoyed enough by the interface that I was using it MUCH less.

The only reason I'm still there now is because the old version is still accessible.

And encountering the mobile site from a mobile search is incredibly painful when just trying to view some simple information. Should not require an app or a purposely-hostile mobile experience to simply view text on a webpage.

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