Yeah, the new Reddit design is such a step back in terms of both performance and user experience. It was probably optimized in some way to increase engagement, but it's just really bad.
On mobile I use Relay, which is really good.
On mobile I use Relay, which is really good.
Trying to follow a link is now all but impossible - clicking a link takes me to the comments page. Not what I want. But on that page, the link that I expect to see at the top of the page doesn't load! So I shrug and go back to the index page, and now the link or image or whatever is attached to the post is gone from _that_ page too. Reloading the page doesn't fix it. So for that particular link or image, it's now impossible to even see it let alone have any hope of ever viewing the image or following the link...
And I've given up trying to write comments or upvote/downvote anything because usually tapping the arrows or whatever just redirects me to a page saying you've signed out, we'll sign you back in... followed by .... a reload where I'm back into the same state where I appear to be logged in but any interaction redirects me back to this page ....
The new design is complete garbage and I cannot understand how it has been allowed to get this bad.
are you sure that this isn't mostly true for HN crowd? I have seen more and more people participate in reddit recently.
The subculture will move on and find a new place to congregate. But it will forever be pursued by the mainstream. This is Eternal September.
Having said that, I used Reddit more like a phone book than a social media network, so the redesign is lost on me.
When logged in, the new design is fine I think. There's a couple minor annoyances, but nothing that makes we want to go and use old.
It's just the work of bean counters optimising metrics that are visible to them. We're lucky an API exists and quality third-party clients can still be built but I assume they'll shut this off one day too.
I want to absorb all the comments in least ammount of time.
The new design looks like it focus more on content than people commenting. I mean reddit is about all the juicy comments, no?
Yes, from 9gag. And to be fair I think the 9gag interface is better than the newer Reddit one.
Sure, if you want to sell generic ads (even if "personalized" with all the cookies you have) with low conversion that's the way to go.
if you have replied multiple times in one thread, you can't reliably load the paginated history of the thread.
3rd party apps work better