Their responsive mobile design is for the most part, pretty good. It's a huge upgrade from the past when there was absolutely no mobile optimization. :)
Agreed on that though, there's so so many dark patterns that have come along with it.
The latest bummer for me was seeing usernames disappear from the landing page on mobile. Who cares about users anyways, not like they've ever contributed anything to the site…
It’s not. They went in trying to make a mobile first experience, and somehow made it worse than a desktop first experience browsed on mobile. Base reddit works fine on mobile. The redesign is absolutely trash, bloated, slow and ugly.
I preferred it then, especially when browsing from my mobile device! It used to be very easy to get the zoom I wanted just by tapping on my ipod touch. Now, it's both wasteful of space and cluttered with a bunch of things I don't want. It's become harder and harder to skim the feed.
I know this has been around for at least 5 years. https://www.reddit.com/.compact