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I find the new reddit UI to be terrible, and still use old.reddit.com. I just hope they continue to host it. If they shut it down at some point, I will probably stop using reddit. And that will be a sad day.

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Every now an then I try the new UI, I haven't in a while though. Every time the experience was the same, horribly slow and confusing.

I think the Reddit plan was to switch the users to an eternal scrolling, sort of like Facebook, to keep users on the site longer, but that really ruins the experience for pretty much everything but pure entertainment.

If anything I'm all little pissed at both Facebook and Reddit for killing forums, than the changing their platforms that aren't really suited for forum like discussions when they discovered that it's not actually profitable to run forums. The communities on both have devolved over time, so it's perhaps not a big loss. Reddit in particular have grown to have what I would call "accepted opinions", they may differ slightly in different sub-reddits. The Reddit community is, in general, stubborn, narrow minded and intolerant for different opinions and world views, but disguises it as left leaning politics, anti-racism, feminism and inclusiveness while behaving exactly like the people they claim to be against.

There's still a few positive and supportive sub-reddits, but the main ones are lost.

Reddit Enhancement Suite has had "Never Ending Reddit" forever and it worked (works) without crazy performance issues ...

Moderator of a large subreddit here. In our traffic stats, we see 1 in 4 pageviews are from the old version.

I would expect people that contribute to have a higher old.r percentage, and smaller subreddits as well. (Frankly I expect this to go with age, everybody above 17 must ude old.r in my Imagination). Do you have any insight on this?

I assume that's total, including apps? Or are you saying that between old, mobile web and new, 75% of hits are from new? If so that's quite different from my traffic stats, copying a comment from older thread:

According to my traffic stats (moderating ~400k subscribers), old + mobile web frontends make up about twice the traffic of new frontend. Apps are by far the most popular, about ~3x of all web frontends combined.

I'm surprised the percentage is that high, although I'd imagine it would vary a lot depending on the sub

Problem is newcomers don't know about old, and will eventually push down that 1/4 over time

Same, I will not use Reddit website without their old version. I simply can't stand to the new ugly 'modern' UI of they use.

Their idea of a "modern" look is Fisher Price.

I would love to see the analytics on old.reddit.com and the discussions it causes at Reddit HQ.

Reddit keeps throwing me to the new website even though i have 1000 times selected that i want the old, desktop site on my phone. Are there any reddit developers in here? For shame, stop doing it.

I feel your pain.

We shouldn't have to but, I use this plugin and never see the new website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

It's like how Twitter switches you back to the algorithmic timeline every so often, "You're back home" is the extremely sneaky wording they use in the banner when they do it.

They hope that eventually you wont care or wont notice.

I don't notice... for a few minutes, then i go WTF why do i see those random things that other people liked in my timeline. Twitter devs ... you can't fool us, stop it

Yeah same reaction here, I scroll for a bit and the content is awful then I realise. It's crazy how clear the distinction is just from looking at the tweet content alone.

That's something I constantly wrote a few years ago, but since then they pretty much banned most subs I was subscribed to and made it very clear and they censor pretty much anything they want so that was ultimately what made me stop using the site.

> I find the new reddit UI to be terrible

I actually like the new UI set to compact, it’s even cleaner and more compact than old. But at least on my desktop (I assume it’s not fast on any kind of device) it’s super slow, and old is not much worse.

I agree. The only real problem I have with the new UI is that it is slow. However it is so painfully show, even on a fast device that it dwarfs and of the minor benefits of the new UI for me.

I end up using the new UI for mobile, because the old UI is basically unusable. Luckily I generally only open one tab on mobile and the old UI on desktop.

If the new UI was fast I would actually consider it good.

I use Sync for Reddit and have been for ages, great Android app :)

i use i.reddit.com , which is the old mobile view (not the old classic desktop view).

Some of the javascript is broken, but still works in most cases. I too, hope they don't remove it one day. Otherwise i might have to quit reddit...

Thanks! I have been suffering through old.reddit.com on my phone for far too long!

It's optimized for reading forums, i.e. walls of text, it's great for that. Maybe reddit should start monetizing that (with text ads or sth) instead of trying to become an instagram wannabe

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