Hacker News Reader

It real stupidity to push for that 2.0 UI. I don’t know why reddit insisted on that. It’s honestly really bad, pages feel real heavy and wastes a lot of screen real estate. The only reason people haven’t migrated away is because there isn’t an alternative.

View on HN

> I don’t know why reddit insisted on that.

It's likely that they discovered through A/B testing that they could improve their metrics and monetization strategy this way better than the original UI. Reddit doesn't exist to satisfy us, it exists to make money.

> The only reason people haven’t migrated away is because there isn’t an alternative.

I agree the new design is just awful, but you can switch to the old design in the settings menus (equivalent to browsing https://old.reddit.com ).

This is what I do but recently they changed it so the mobile browser doesn’t honor your settings. So I have to type the old.reddit url every time. I do that and don’t give in to them

Reply on news.ycombinator.com