Reddits "new UI" is so bad, surprised they're still trying to save it.
I don't know how to explain it. Does everyone on the new reddit dev team use old.reddit.com so they don't notice this extremely obvious bug?
But I get shouted down if I say my experience with Elon's buggy Twitter 2.0 is about on par with how my reddit experience has been for years and yet reddit is still massively popular. Shrug.
I guess it's hard to believe that sometimes market conditions can overcome bad engineering and then you add all the politics around Twitter's layoffs and people get raw.
What visible changes have been done since Elon took over Twitter + are buggy changes? I hardly notice anything different to be honest. There is a view counter and more people have the blue checkmark, otherwise things mostly seems to be the same. The ads panel (for publishing ads) is as broken as it has always been, so seems it has neither improved nor declined.
Still very far from the same league as new reddit's jank.
- They went down in Australia for a day.
- The "For You" tab keeps selecting itself.
- The Twitter feed keeps injecting randos that aren't followed.
- Nothing is there when you click on a notification sometimes. There are phantom likes and retweets.
- For a while people were unable to change their display name or 2FA would break.
- The view counter doesn't match the analytics view counter.
- Latencies are high
Apparently nobody can agree if a website is bad. Depending on whatever you're arguing, one is great and the other is terrible.
As for reddit, I've been getting phantom notifications, incorrect comment counts on posts, and a 10-15 minute block of "Reddit is down" pages on a monthly basis for years. So as far as I'm concerned, they're both pretty bad.
Unfortunately they're already funneling rich media into their own broken solutions, so things like streaming video is unreliable if people upload it to Reddit directly.
2. Teddit rewrites all Reddit URLs to the Teddit host. Reading Reddit via old you'll still be redirected to the standard "new" site if "www.reddit.com" is hardcoded into a link, and it very, very, very frequently is.
3. Teddit's persistence works even if you're not logged in (which is to say: always, as you can't log in via a Teddit instance). Reddit's "just set your profile preference to "old" requires logging in and can lure you into visiting or posting "www.reddit.com" links rather than "old.reddit.com" links.
Cumulative dark patterns on Reddit spurred me to all but entirely abandon the site years ago. I no longer post updates to my own (several) subreddits, nor actively moderate (again several), though with some regrets on that last (a dark pattern itself).
I'll occasionally visit to research something, or post for support for tools which principally use Reddit for support (DuckDuckGo, Firefox, and Onyx, presently). That's ... down to a few times a year.
It's also available for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
The iphone app is even worse. The swiping UX is seemingly random, video player is terrible etc etc
Reddit is really unusable for me with the new UI.