Clearly they have no clue what they're doing (probably at management level, even bad devs can do better than this) or they have a ton of legacy code they're trying to write around.
But even the old one had its issues. Deep threads with thousands of posts would often crash when you clicked the "read more" to go deeper and instead redirected to the top. So it could be that's where it's at. I assume a complete code review / partial rewrite would be very hard to justify at Reddit's scale.
I'd use the old one but I find it so clunky. Even though it has the same density of hacker news it lacks all its grace.
This is the first time I’ve heard something negative about Huffman. Could you elaborate?
Just like Instagram, tiktok, Snapchat, Pinterest, etc.
If I happen to look at the actual website on mobile, it will freeze the browser almost instantly. So meesed up.
Are they ? The subreddits for the games I play are 80% posts of people who wrote their question on reddit instead of google.
* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....
In short, they want money, and they don't care if you have to suffer for it.
You would think metrics would be much better if the sites were a little more usable.
I built an alternative Reddit client, if you know TweetDeck, then you might like Rdddeck.
I have until now just assumed they want the website to suck so that you are more likely to install the APP. But now as I think about it a bit deeper that seams a bit to crazy.
I'd bet there's some super frustrated PM/TL who knows what to do and wants to fix it but isn't allowed to spend any time on it.
To give a small example: back when a certain subreddit used to frequently appear in /r/all Reddit apparently wrote code to prevent it from ever appearing there again.
The moderated platforms looked better (Slashdot for example) but the spammers and chancers ruined that too.
As a link aggregator, Fark or Digg or (threw up in my mouth) 4Chan all either censored themselves stupid or became a cesspit of humanity that no self respecting adult could tolerate.
Reddit looked like it might be able to find a way forward but as others have suggested, if your business model completely relies on your community doing your work for free, it is eventually doomed to fail as soon as it becomes popular because the amount of work becomes overwhelming.
Yet we are stuck because the conclusion all these sites seem to come to (heavy, paid moderation) makes the sites so antiseptic they stop having anything interesting on them.
The real answer seems to be: use it until it can't be used and move to the next thing when that happens. Reddit is not quite unuseable for the specialist subs but it's getting close.