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Comment by hackmiester | Hacker News Reader

Non-legacy Reddit link: https://reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/1bdtrjq/wrangling_20...

The hacker news crowd is overwhelmingly in support of old.reddit. I mean look at the UI of this place. Obviously this crowd appreciates substance more than Web 3.0 ad trackers and GIF chat

I don't come here because of the UI, I come here because of the content. If it were my site, the UI would be a little more suited to the current year.

If everyone loved it, there'd be no Hacker News mobile apps.

> If it were my site, the UI would be a little more suited to the current year.

The only things I would change is make the Reply link open a text box in-line rather than needing a new tab, and add an icon next to my username/karma in the top right whenever there's a new reply to one of my comments.

Any other "modernization" is probably a step BACKWARDS in UX. I really like the simple design of HN.

>If it were my site, the UI would be a little more suited to the current year.

If it were your site, suited to the current year, I wouldn't come back here.

Probably better that op posted the unshitified link

I don't agree, but I'm sure that was clear from my initial comment.

Which part do you disagree with? The slowness, the Fisher-Price looking UI, the overwhelming noise around posts, or the popups to login or install the app?

They could've improved the styling so things were nicely formatted and easy to read, but they went above and beyond (in a bad way).

For one, the new ui displays images inline.

I always forget that the ability to expand an image link to show an image inline is a feature of Reddit Enhancement Suite, and not a stock feature built into reddit.

There's a nice browser extension for that. I've been using it for a while now.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect

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