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I'm probably a luddite but the new reddit ui is downright painful to use.

by curiousDog 8y ago

nineteen999 8y ago
You probably are, but plenty of non-luddites agree with you.
simook 8y ago
I agree. The previous UI was much better.
- SN76477 8y ago
  The new UI feels like a roomful of fresh graduates designed it.
  - baroffoos 8y ago
    I think my brain has linked together modern ui with slow, broken and full of tracking. I think there might be nothing really wrong with the actual UI of reddit but its all the other things that got lumped in with the redesign. Every time I see an old looking website or program its almost a refreshing feeling that it isn't going to try to suck money and data from me.
    - aylmao 8y ago
      > I think my brain has linked together modern ui with slow, broken and full of tracking. Big +1. Also design that favors metrics. Why did they include this one thing? Why did they remove the other? They're probably pushing you to use the site in a way that increases time spent on site by xx%.
randlet 8y ago
I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" FF add on which redirects all Reddit links to old.reddit.com which still uses the nicer old UI.
- hprotagonist 8y ago
  that, and apollo on iOS, and i forget that there is such a thing as the new UI at all.
Simon_says 8y ago
I have no idea how they rolled that out with a straight face. It's actively user-hostile. But I guess they figure people will get used to anything.
tzs 8y ago
...except for the post editor. It is an improvement. If they put the new editor in as an option in the old UI, I'd be quite happy. But the rest of the new UI? I seriously do not get it. It't not just the look, which is a matter of taste [1]. It just does some weird things that make absolutely no sense to me. For example, when you go to the comments for a post, it puts them in some kind of overlay window, with the post listing under it. I suppose this is great for quickly getting back to the post listing, as you just have to hit the close X up in the corner and it goes away and you are instantly back. However, since the post list is still there while reading the comments, if you do a search within the page in the browser (well...in Firefox...I haven't tried in other browsers) it finds hits on the "hidden" post list too. The good news is that if you open comments, and get this overlay window view, all you have to do is hit refresh. When the page refreshes it gives you a more normal comment view, without it being an overlay on the post list view. So now searching works like you'd expect. Also, on Edge, scrolling is messed up in the overlay view. Apparently they are handling it themselves in JavaScript for some reason, and it doesn't match native browser scrolling making it feel awkward at best and hard to use at worst. So refreshing to get out of overlay mode also gets you a properly scrolling comment view. But WHY would they have these two different ways to view comments? It makes no sense to me to have it come up one way, and then have refreshing change it to another way. (My guess is that the first way--the terrible one--is what it is supposed to be all the time, and the refresh thing is a bug). [1] That doesn't mean I like it...the colors, fonts, styles, etc., of the post list make it hard for me to read efficiently. At first I thought maybe I was just used to the old style, and so to give it a chance I've stuck with the new UI for months and nope, not getting any better.

I'm probably a luddite but the new reddit ui is downright painful to use.

nineteen999 8y ago

You probably are, but plenty of non-luddites agree with you.

simook 8y ago

I agree. The previous UI was much better.

SN76477 8y ago
The new UI feels like a roomful of fresh graduates designed it.
- baroffoos 8y ago
  I think my brain has linked together modern ui with slow, broken and full of tracking. I think there might be nothing really wrong with the actual UI of reddit but its all the other things that got lumped in with the redesign. Every time I see an old looking website or program its almost a refreshing feeling that it isn't going to try to suck money and data from me.
  - aylmao 8y ago
    > I think my brain has linked together modern ui with slow, broken and full of tracking. Big +1. Also design that favors metrics. Why did they include this one thing? Why did they remove the other? They're probably pushing you to use the site in a way that increases time spent on site by xx%.

randlet 8y ago

I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" FF add on which redirects all Reddit links to old.reddit.com which still uses the nicer old UI.

hprotagonist 8y ago
that, and apollo on iOS, and i forget that there is such a thing as the new UI at all.

Simon_says 8y ago

I have no idea how they rolled that out with a straight face. It's actively user-hostile. But I guess they figure people will get used to anything.

tzs 8y ago

...except for the post editor. It is an improvement. If they put the new editor in as an option in the old UI, I'd be quite happy. But the rest of the new UI? I seriously do not get it. It't not just the look, which is a matter of taste [1]. It just does some weird things that make absolutely no sense to me. For example, when you go to the comments for a post, it puts them in some kind of overlay window, with the post listing under it. I suppose this is great for quickly getting back to the post listing, as you just have to hit the close X up in the corner and it goes away and you are instantly back. However, since the post list is still there while reading the comments, if you do a search within the page in the browser (well...in Firefox...I haven't tried in other browsers) it finds hits on the "hidden" post list too. The good news is that if you open comments, and get this overlay window view, all you have to do is hit refresh. When the page refreshes it gives you a more normal comment view, without it being an overlay on the post list view. So now searching works like you'd expect. Also, on Edge, scrolling is messed up in the overlay view. Apparently they are handling it themselves in JavaScript for some reason, and it doesn't match native browser scrolling making it feel awkward at best and hard to use at worst. So refreshing to get out of overlay mode also gets you a properly scrolling comment view. But WHY would they have these two different ways to view comments? It makes no sense to me to have it come up one way, and then have refreshing change it to another way. (My guess is that the first way--the terrible one--is what it is supposed to be all the time, and the refresh thing is a bug). [1] That doesn't mean I like it...the colors, fonts, styles, etc., of the post list make it hard for me to read efficiently. At first I thought maybe I was just used to the old style, and so to give it a chance I've stuck with the new UI for months and nope, not getting any better.