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The new reddit mobile page has the same problem. On the old http://i.reddit.com http://i.reddit.com I usually get 1-3 more links per page than on the new http:/

The new reddit mobile page has the same problem. On the old http://i.reddit.com http://i.reddit.com I usually get 1-3 more links per page than on the new http://m.reddit.com http://m.reddit.com Who actually thinks that all that padding and those stupid navbars are a good idea? On mobile my screen estate is very valuable and I don't want to waste it on unnecessary things.

SixSigma 11y ago
And yet they already have just what you want, why are they wasting time re-inventing it! http://reddit.com/.compact http://reddit.com/.compact
- yoodenvranx 11y ago
  Http://i.reddit.com is the same as adding ".compact" to a link. I also don't understand the redesign. The old version is way better then the new version, but I guess it just does not look flat and material enough.
  - andrepd 11y ago
    As a major point in their favour, at least they kept the old version. They could have just redesigned the webpage and put it on i.reddit.com. Instead I can keep using the same good old layout while those who want can use the new m.reddit.com. That's more than I can say for many, many other things, where whether I like it or not I'm forced to have the latest design fad (flat, pastel colours, long and inefficient animations and huge, unnecessary padding nowadays) shoved down my throat.
    - x1798DE 11y ago
      I know nothing about this, but there's a flag on https://m.reddit.com https://m.reddit.com that says "Beta", and on https://i.reddit.com https://i.reddit.com there's a link to "try the beta", so I think it remains to be seen whether the old version is still available when m gets out of beta.
bitwize 11y ago
Designers from San Francisco, that's who. Current design trends favor "negative space", so text has to be spaced widely, with huge margins and hairsbreadth-thin fonts.
- nosuchthing 11y ago
  The saying "Form follows function." is well ingrained among industrial designers, UI designers ought consider it as well. Although my assumption here is front end designers are often subjected to death by a thousand revisions from 'the suits'.
- ajmurmann 11y ago
  You forgot to mention the very low cost, especially for font because we gotta hide that pesky content that we have to show after all.
  - alexschleber 11y ago
    Images (even small, low-quality ones) are far more costly than text, no?
- bluthru 11y ago
  Negative space is always useful. Simply spacing shit out to create low information density isn't the same thing. Adding a bunch of unnecessary dividers (cards and shadows) are definitely not the same thing as negative space. Negative space would be allowing the space between items to create a division instead of the borders and shadows.
gravity13 11y ago
Yeah but the action of maneuvering through the content is fleeting. Rather than squinting and parsing a whole bunch of stuff - you're just filtering as you move down the page. I do the same exact thing on HN. It's just that I can be lazy with the affordance of a large screen. Also, reddit is different as a consumption medium, rather than news aggregator. With reddit, you consume. With HN, you peruse.
Spoom 11y ago
I love i.reddit. When they take that away (and I expect they eventually will), I will probably use reddit a lot less.
thekingshorses 11y ago
I don't like the new http://m.reddit.com/ http://m.reddit.com/ Try this my redesign reddit. http://reddit.premii.com/ http://reddit.premii.com/ I hope reddit does something like this, and let user configure layout for each subreddit.
- yoodenvranx 11y ago
  I like the design, but why is there a nav bar? I browse reddit a lot in horizontal view and the navbar just takes very important space away.
  - thekingshorses 11y ago
    I am assuming you are on Android. iPhone doesn't have a hardware back button, and most people don't know you can navigate back by swiping. I will add tracking in http://hn.premii.com/ http://hn.premii.com/ to see how many user uses in landscape mode vs portrait. Hiding navbar in the landscape mode is an option.

SixSigma 11y ago

And yet they already have just what you want, why are they wasting time re-inventing it! http://reddit.com/.compact http://reddit.com/.compact

yoodenvranx 11y ago
Http://i.reddit.com is the same as adding ".compact" to a link. I also don't understand the redesign. The old version is way better then the new version, but I guess it just does not look flat and material enough.
- andrepd 11y ago
  As a major point in their favour, at least they kept the old version. They could have just redesigned the webpage and put it on i.reddit.com. Instead I can keep using the same good old layout while those who want can use the new m.reddit.com. That's more than I can say for many, many other things, where whether I like it or not I'm forced to have the latest design fad (flat, pastel colours, long and inefficient animations and huge, unnecessary padding nowadays) shoved down my throat.
  - x1798DE 11y ago
    I know nothing about this, but there's a flag on https://m.reddit.com https://m.reddit.com that says "Beta", and on https://i.reddit.com https://i.reddit.com there's a link to "try the beta", so I think it remains to be seen whether the old version is still available when m gets out of beta.

bitwize 11y ago

Designers from San Francisco, that's who. Current design trends favor "negative space", so text has to be spaced widely, with huge margins and hairsbreadth-thin fonts.

nosuchthing 11y ago
The saying "Form follows function." is well ingrained among industrial designers, UI designers ought consider it as well. Although my assumption here is front end designers are often subjected to death by a thousand revisions from 'the suits'.
ajmurmann 11y ago
You forgot to mention the very low cost, especially for font because we gotta hide that pesky content that we have to show after all.
- alexschleber 11y ago
  Images (even small, low-quality ones) are far more costly than text, no?
bluthru 11y ago
Negative space is always useful. Simply spacing shit out to create low information density isn't the same thing. Adding a bunch of unnecessary dividers (cards and shadows) are definitely not the same thing as negative space. Negative space would be allowing the space between items to create a division instead of the borders and shadows.

gravity13 11y ago

Yeah but the action of maneuvering through the content is fleeting. Rather than squinting and parsing a whole bunch of stuff - you're just filtering as you move down the page. I do the same exact thing on HN. It's just that I can be lazy with the affordance of a large screen. Also, reddit is different as a consumption medium, rather than news aggregator. With reddit, you consume. With HN, you peruse.

Spoom 11y ago

I love i.reddit. When they take that away (and I expect they eventually will), I will probably use reddit a lot less.

thekingshorses 11y ago

I don't like the new http://m.reddit.com/ http://m.reddit.com/ Try this my redesign reddit. http://reddit.premii.com/ http://reddit.premii.com/ I hope reddit does something like this, and let user configure layout for each subreddit.

yoodenvranx 11y ago
I like the design, but why is there a nav bar? I browse reddit a lot in horizontal view and the navbar just takes very important space away.
- thekingshorses 11y ago
  I am assuming you are on Android. iPhone doesn't have a hardware back button, and most people don't know you can navigate back by swiping. I will add tracking in http://hn.premii.com/ http://hn.premii.com/ to see how many user uses in landscape mode vs portrait. Hiding navbar in the landscape mode is an option.