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I think what it is is that we associate the old design with good times. We associate it with those deep, late night discussions about something esoteric from ba
by jjcm 8y ago
I think what it is is that we associate the old design with good times. We associate it with those deep, late night discussions about something esoteric from back when reddit was a smaller but more knowledgable community. Like any social site, as it grows the average quality decreases. Today reddit is the #10 most popular site worldwide, and largely the discussions are bandwagony / low effort. For me when I see the site under the new design, I don't see any of the nostalgia I have associated with it from a decade of use. I just see all the stuff I dislike about what the site has become.
- majewsky 8y agoThis cannot be all of it. I've never been a Reddit user besides the occasional research e.g. in the wiki of /r/BuildAPC. But even I am put off by the new design. Possible explanations: 1. It looks like a mobile app. I hate most of the mobile ecosystem for its horrible information density and dark UI patterns. 2. You cannot find shit. The only way to open a subreddit's wiki in the new UI is to append "/wiki" to the URL, from what I can tell. 3. It looks like a social network (i.e. a waste of time) and less like a forum/message board (i.e. a productive community).
- nonbel 8y agoAccording to "view document size" from my firefox "web developer extension": www.reddit.com: 4285 kb old.reddit.com: 1888 kb i.reddit.com: 802 kb Im not 100% confident those stats are really getting everything on the page but it seems about right. Anyway, perhaps you are sensing that the junk/cruft to content ratio is rising. Assuming 5 kWh per GB of data[1], and 14 billion reddit pageviews per month [2] # i.reddit.com 5 kWh/GB x 1e-6 GB/KB x x 1e-9 TWh/kWh x 802 KB/view x 14e9 views/month x 12 months/year = 0.67 TWh/year # old.reddit.com = 1.6 TWh/year # www.reddit.com = 3.6 TWh/year So about 3 TWh extra electricity is being used each year. This is about the total used each year by Papua New Guinea, which is ranked 133/219 in electricity consumption by country.[3] And for what? What did we gain from this? [1] https://aceee.org/files/proceedings/2012/data/papers/0193-000409.pdf https://aceee.org/files/proceedings/2012/data/papers/0193-00... [2] https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/reddit-stats/ https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/reddit-stats/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...