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This 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

This 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 ago
According 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...

nonbel 8y ago

According 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...