There's an old and undervalued adage: don't fix what isn't broken. Reddit is a community of communities. You can be part of more than one or just one, you can

There's an old and undervalued adage: don't fix what isn't broken. Reddit is a community of communities. You can be part of more than one or just one, you can post in all of them, you're not forced to look at any of them, and each of them has different rules, culture and enforcement policies. They're on a pretty even playing field as far as site rules and moderation tools go too. It's crazy, chaotic and lends itself well to surprise. The primary interface lends itself well to lurking, but what it is really meant for is talking to people. You can post a new top-level comment on any post, but the real discussion happens in the threads in-between. The top level discussions are also ranked, democratically, but if the discussion looks skewed you can even easily change how you look at a thread to see what you're missing. All in all, it's a real gem, the way it is now. Looking at this design, all I see is a Facebook. A different kind of Facebook to be sure, but it doesn't look like a real improvement on what I have now, just different. A change for the sake of making a change because otherwise all of those engineers in their office downtown would be bored or working elsewhere if they didn't have a project like this to keep them interested/entertained. Fine I suppose, and for now I can still use the classic interface, but for how long? How long till some bored engineer or annoyed project manager with a vision/dream/overwhelming urge to kick a puppy manages to convince the rest that they should drop the classic interface in favor of putting more wood behind their Facebook-shaped arrow.