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There are so many things about their new design and changes that are very negative for new visitors. I’ve encountered a dozen bugs and niggling flaws which as a
by code_duck 8y ago
There are so many things about their new design and changes that are very negative for new visitors. I’ve encountered a dozen bugs and niggling flaws which as an experienced user I can work around, and recognize as an error, but a new user would not understand.
For example, say you come to reddit, you get the new mobile design. You do a search. It tells you no results were found and there’s nothing else on the page but that line of text: “Sorry, we couldn't find any results for
'Celiac'”
It doesn’t indicate that it restricted the search that sub, or that you can search the entire site.
However, if you get results? “25+ matches in r/Perfectfit Search all of reddit”. This is starting at one result, so it’s puzzling that it is not there for 0 results.
The behavior of automatically restricting the search to one sub is also the opposite of the behavior on the old the desktop version.
As a web programmer and designer, I also recognize these as the mistakes of lazy people or amateurs which could be rectified without delay. I have reported several bugs like this months ago, and there has been no change.
- code_duck 8y agoI wanted to add that the way that this is the mistake of an amateur is how they released the search like that without noticing. The people coding it should’ve noticed immediately, and someone else on the staff should’ve noticed within a week, and fixed it. But then, not fixing it several months later even after receiving many user reports is qualitatively even worse. I can only imagine how many new users have been turned off by this.