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And all of these changes didn't have to happen at all, since Reddit worked perfectly already. It wasn't fancy, but it worked, fit lots of information onto the s
by CM30 8y ago
And all of these changes didn't have to happen at all, since Reddit worked perfectly already. It wasn't fancy, but it worked, fit lots of information onto the screen and didn't annoy you with modal related crap.
Which makes me wonder... why even change it? Why do all large websites seem to change their designs at seemingly random? Is there a hatred of a website's design just staying the same for the foreseeable future? It's like this is done just to give their engineers something to do...
Ah well, I guess it at least works a bit better than YouTube, whose every design change seems to exist purely to break some piece of the UI that everyone depends on and to make things less usable than they were before.
- Lan 8y agoVisual changes are an easy feather-in-the-cap for both front-end developers and for management. A design overhaul is immediately obvious to everyone. It's something you can show off. It's something you can add eye-candy to. Changes like that are more glamorous than performance improvements. People that are trying to justify their position love to attach their name to those types of things.