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first the redesign now this. reddit is really starting to go downhill.

stochastic_monk 8y ago
Whenever I open reddit without logging in, I’m filled with abject horror by the abomination before me. Sure, it’s fixed after logging in, as I’ve opted for the “classic” look, but how long will they support both displays?
- hsljekskfh 8y ago
  that’s what happens to me, except it’s delayed by 30 seconds because it loads so slowly.
- technofiend 8y ago
  I can't read Reddit without logging in because that's what applies all my filters. It's a much more agreeable site once you strip off all the politics subreddits. Now I just need a way to filter off the karma whores like gallowboob.
- bdcravens 8y ago
  When I most recently logged in on a new computer, the new UI still persists. I suspect that's being rolled out slowly.
amaccuish 8y ago
https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/
- labster 8y ago
  Not a relevant xkcd to GP. You would have done better posting a link to "Time", at least that one has people going downhill.
- IIAOPSW 8y ago
  Reddit is a private entity entitled to make their own decisions on what is allowed on their platform. I'm a private entity entitled to say their decisions suck. HN is a private entity which (for now) is willing to host my opinion. Your response falls completely flat because I never claimed a right to Reddit.
  - delbel 8y ago
    the "private entity entitled to their decisions" argument is facing an interesting 1st ammendment challenge based on a 1946 court case Marsh v. Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama It may not hold up after all, i.e. facebook censoring users because they are a private entity, they may be forced to provide some avenue for people to do so in the future. Its interesting to me because it goes against everything I use to believed in, but at the same time these entities are being used to promote a dark globalist agenda.
notthemessiah 8y ago
This was actually first. We saw the start of this about a year and a half ago when they deleted their warrant canary. And half a year ago they announced that they went closed-source.
- beefhash 8y ago
  They've been closed-source for a while longer. Some changes on the live site took months to arrive in the open source repo, if they ever did.
  - DelightOne 8y ago
    So its more work to replace them I guess.
foobaw 8y ago
I read their re-design announcement and am really confused. Did they actually conduct user studies? focus group studies? research? proper A/B testing? The general consensus seems that the re-design has a horrible user experience for most people. Curious on what their approach would be as I'm sure they're seeing horrible conversions.
- flatline 8y ago
  I bet they have a lot of “conversions” because a significant portion of their user base don’t log in and use the site to interact with others, they just browse the front page of some particular sub or thread they ran across. Not something you can exactly do with FB for example. Of course, the redesign is so badly broken it will dump you back to the old view half the time. But they have this weird sort of captive yet passive audience that sees what is delivered by default via the front page and the default subs.
- wingerlang 8y ago
  > The general consensus seems that the re-design has a horrible user experience for most people. Maybe on r/redesign that's the consensus, but that's ignoring the rest of the users that doesn't care.
alasdair_ 8y ago
>first the redesign now this. Did they forget that the reason they got so many users in the first place was because of the Digg redesign?
- curioussavage 8y ago
  This something people keep bringing up but many people have pointed out that Digg didn't just redesign their site. They changed the way the site worked.

Whenever I open reddit without logging in, I’m filled with abject horror by the abomination before me. Sure, it’s fixed after logging in, as I’ve opted for the “classic” look, but how long will they support both displays?

hsljekskfh 8y ago
that’s what happens to me, except it’s delayed by 30 seconds because it loads so slowly.
technofiend 8y ago
I can't read Reddit without logging in because that's what applies all my filters. It's a much more agreeable site once you strip off all the politics subreddits. Now I just need a way to filter off the karma whores like gallowboob.
bdcravens 8y ago
When I most recently logged in on a new computer, the new UI still persists. I suspect that's being rolled out slowly.

amaccuish 8y ago

https://xkcd.com/1357/ https://xkcd.com/1357/

labster 8y ago
Not a relevant xkcd to GP. You would have done better posting a link to "Time", at least that one has people going downhill.
IIAOPSW 8y ago
Reddit is a private entity entitled to make their own decisions on what is allowed on their platform. I'm a private entity entitled to say their decisions suck. HN is a private entity which (for now) is willing to host my opinion. Your response falls completely flat because I never claimed a right to Reddit.
- delbel 8y ago
  the "private entity entitled to their decisions" argument is facing an interesting 1st ammendment challenge based on a 1946 court case Marsh v. Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama It may not hold up after all, i.e. facebook censoring users because they are a private entity, they may be forced to provide some avenue for people to do so in the future. Its interesting to me because it goes against everything I use to believed in, but at the same time these entities are being used to promote a dark globalist agenda.

notthemessiah 8y ago

This was actually first. We saw the start of this about a year and a half ago when they deleted their warrant canary. And half a year ago they announced that they went closed-source.

beefhash 8y ago
They've been closed-source for a while longer. Some changes on the live site took months to arrive in the open source repo, if they ever did.
- DelightOne 8y ago
  So its more work to replace them I guess.

foobaw 8y ago

I read their re-design announcement and am really confused. Did they actually conduct user studies? focus group studies? research? proper A/B testing? The general consensus seems that the re-design has a horrible user experience for most people. Curious on what their approach would be as I'm sure they're seeing horrible conversions.

flatline 8y ago
I bet they have a lot of “conversions” because a significant portion of their user base don’t log in and use the site to interact with others, they just browse the front page of some particular sub or thread they ran across. Not something you can exactly do with FB for example. Of course, the redesign is so badly broken it will dump you back to the old view half the time. But they have this weird sort of captive yet passive audience that sees what is delivered by default via the front page and the default subs.
wingerlang 8y ago
> The general consensus seems that the re-design has a horrible user experience for most people. Maybe on r/redesign that's the consensus, but that's ignoring the rest of the users that doesn't care.

alasdair_ 8y ago

>first the redesign now this. Did they forget that the reason they got so many users in the first place was because of the Digg redesign?

curioussavage 8y ago
This something people keep bringing up but many people have pointed out that Digg didn't just redesign their site. They changed the way the site worked.