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This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.

Plus on the new layout you're forced to use the mobile app now.

I use firefox and YesterdayForOldReddit for mobile browsing and it's basically the old.reddit experience on mobile.

Quora has a similarly baffling UI. You're reading one thread trying to find a useful response and it mixes in random answers to other threads.

Who the hell thinks this is a good idea?

The only thing I can figure out is some "expert" somewhere has data that says there's a small pickup of people coming in from SEO clicking on other random links.

But you would have to be such a myopic idiot to think that deliberately confusing users to inflate engagement is a reasonable long term brand strategy.

Quora's UI is just trash. It's hard to realize the answer you are reading is not an answer to the question you have opened and that's an unbelievably stupid thing to get wrong in a website that is all about questions.

Same. That's part of the appeal of this site. It looks like old reddit.

To me it was the day I couldn't use my app anymore.

Never forget what Reddit did to the Apollo app