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Comment by marrone12 | Hacker News Reader

I think it looks better. Better fonts, better element spacing. It just does not perform very well and seems to have a lot of "state" issues or inconsistent design elements. Reading comments and browsing is slower than it used to be, but I prefer the new look to the old one.

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The main feature that makes me use the new interface is the ability to collapse a thread from anywhere. It makes reading through comments much faster.

The main drawback is that it's really too heavy for what it does.

I don't understand the complains about the new design being image-heavy, or in general so much different from the old one. Once you set it (once) in "classic view", it's basically the same.

The complaint isn't that it's image-heavy, but javascript-heavy.

If I load an old/new reddit tab and go to 'about:performance', here's the comparison:

Old - Low impact - 22 MB memory usage - 4s to fully load on gigabit

New - Med impact - 70 MB memory usage - 10s to fully load on gigabit

Fully agreed, the performance is atrocious.

But a lot of other critics feel like the person haven't tried setting the view to "classic" or "compact".

> The main feature that makes me use the new interface is the ability to collapse a thread from anywhere. [...]

There is an add-on called "Reddit comment collapser" [0] that adds this to old reddit.

[0]: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/reddit-comment-collapser

Good UI, bad UX.

Yes, exactly!

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