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God yes, the older reddit interface was so much better. I don't give a shit how pretty the UI is.

by tenaciousDaniel 8y ago

duxup 8y ago
I use ud.reddit.com Although anytime I mention this I fear they'll take it away...
- stronglikedan 8y ago
  Just out of curiosity, why "ud"? It seems like any two letter subdomain works in the same way.
  - duxup 8y ago
    Honestly, I think that was just one I bookmarked at some point and there it is in my history ;)
    - lessclue 8y ago
      It's actually old.reddit.com but they probably have some sort of a wildcard rule.
      - duxup 8y ago
        Thanks!
      - folkrav 8y ago
        This is probably it : any two letter combination seems to work.
        godelski 8y ago
        Testing it out I found something interesting. You can put in subreddit.reddit.com and it redirects to reddit.com/r/subreddit. But any 2 char prefix works sends to old.reddit.com (a.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/a) e.g. hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews Why does this subreddit exist?
        thaumasiotes 8y ago
        > hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews > Why does this subreddit exist? Considering the prevalence of the rebuke "HN is not reddit" on HN, probably for people who want to talk in a more reddit-like style.
        Nullabillity 8y ago
        It was (originally) for localization: ja.reddit.com would (for example) give you a Japanese interface. Eventually they realized what a horrible idea l10n is for a community-oriented site, and dropped the translations, but kept the `lang` that it would apply attributes. Eventually subreddit moderators figured out that you could use this to provide multiple variants of the per-subreddit CSS, such as dark modes, custom filters, and other silliness[0]. [0]: For example, see /r/CrappyDesign with (https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/) and without (https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign) Comic Sans.
    - delecti 8y ago
      Other than "np", as in "np.reddit.com", which is used for "no-participation mode", I think the other two-letter sub-domains are used for language codes. I think at one point in reddit's history doing things like de.reddit.com could give a german site, and so on. I'm not sure what "ud" would refer to, but I assume it's similar.
      - pvorb 8y ago
        Maybe "undefined"/"undetermined"?
      - Avery3R 8y ago
        np is implemented as a language code. Subreddits have to change their stylesheets for that language for it to work.
  - ehsankia 8y ago
    I have no idea what ud is, I use old.reddit.com
- deleted 8y ago
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- lelf 8y ago
  Try https://reddit.com/.compact https://reddit.com/.compact
SlightRespect 8y ago
Craigslist is _the_ case study on how an ugly UI can survive over a long timeline. There are many techies and UI designers that are just disgusted at the UI of craigslist. For some, aesthetic is more important than usability. Luckily, for most, it's not.
- tenaciousDaniel 8y ago
  Yes exactly. CL is probably my favorite website on the internet, for the sheer reason that they have virtually not changed at all since they first launched over 10 years ago. It's fairly incredible. I can't think of another website that has done that.
  - aidenn0 8y ago
    http://rinkworks.com/ http://rinkworks.com/
    - tenaciousDaniel 8y ago
      holy shit
    - sevensor 8y ago
      This still exists?! It's still being updated?!?! So much more content than when I last checked it, which would have been 2004 or so. My faith in the internet is restored.
  - stingraycharles 8y ago
    CL is only ten years old? I always figured it was from the 90s — maybe a bias originating from the design.
    - m741 8y ago
      It's over 20 years old, it launched in 1996. Time flies.
fiala__ 8y ago
I tried the new interface, and even after a couple of minutes I still couldn't find where my saved posts were. Went straight back to `old.`
thirdsun 8y ago
That’s the strange thing about reddit’s new design: It not only lacks functionality and performance, but also white space and clean aesthetics. It feels dated already.
- opportune 8y ago
  it was designed to make it easier to integrate ads
- mzybert 8y ago
  It's also slow, unresponsive and breaks all the time. The dark mode toggles back to bright mode randomly, posts sometimes don't render... It takes multiple seconds to render the comments in a thread. It's a mess.
pantalaimon 8y ago
The thing is that the new interface can take seconds to load whereas the old one was instant. How is this an improvement?
- criddell 8y ago
  It's better for them, not necessarily for you. Reddit wants lots of growth (they are taking new money now I think) and that means lots of new users that don't know the old UI. The new one is designed with those users in mind, not ones that know the site inside and out already.
  - crowbahr 8y ago
    It's sanding down a barrier to entry that was already fairly low, in my opinion. They haven't really made it much lower either. Integrating RES into the main site would've been most of what they needed to get going...
    - criddell 8y ago
      They aren't going to care about what anybody on HN has to say about it because we aren't the audience they are after. They need hundreds of millions of new users and those have to come from Facebook and probably on mobile.
      - shakna 8y ago
        > and probably on mobile. The site isn't mobile-friendly though, is it? It's slow, bloated, and has repeated interstitials demanding you get their app if you deign to use mobile.
        pantalaimon 8y ago
        There is an old mobile interface which is very quick and also easy to use. https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/
    - 8y ago
yoodenvranx 8y ago
The old mobile reddit site [0] is _amazing_! No whitespace, no padding! [0] The one which you can still reach by adding '.compact' to any reddit url
thefifthsetpin 8y ago
Given how aggressively reddit push their terrible no good very bad interface, I figure there has to be some advantage to them to my using it? I don't know what that could be, maybe users struggling to use the new interface looks like engagement to ads?
paulddraper 8y ago
> so much better In particular, faster. I need to have a supercomputer to scroll past the first few pages.
osrec 8y ago
The new UI isn't all that pretty either...

God yes, the older reddit interface was so much better. I don't give a shit how pretty the UI is.

duxup 8y ago

I use ud.reddit.com Although anytime I mention this I fear they'll take it away...

stronglikedan 8y ago
Just out of curiosity, why "ud"? It seems like any two letter subdomain works in the same way.
- duxup 8y ago
  Honestly, I think that was just one I bookmarked at some point and there it is in my history ;)
  - lessclue 8y ago
    It's actually old.reddit.com but they probably have some sort of a wildcard rule.
    - duxup 8y ago
      Thanks!
    - folkrav 8y ago
      This is probably it : any two letter combination seems to work.
      - godelski 8y ago
        Testing it out I found something interesting. You can put in subreddit.reddit.com and it redirects to reddit.com/r/subreddit. But any 2 char prefix works sends to old.reddit.com (a.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/a) e.g. hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews Why does this subreddit exist?
        thaumasiotes 8y ago
        > hackernews.reddit.com -> reddit.com/r/hackernews > Why does this subreddit exist? Considering the prevalence of the rebuke "HN is not reddit" on HN, probably for people who want to talk in a more reddit-like style.
      - Nullabillity 8y ago
        It was (originally) for localization: ja.reddit.com would (for example) give you a Japanese interface. Eventually they realized what a horrible idea l10n is for a community-oriented site, and dropped the translations, but kept the `lang` that it would apply attributes. Eventually subreddit moderators figured out that you could use this to provide multiple variants of the per-subreddit CSS, such as dark modes, custom filters, and other silliness[0]. [0]: For example, see /r/CrappyDesign with (https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/) and without (https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign https://of.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign) Comic Sans.
  - delecti 8y ago
    Other than "np", as in "np.reddit.com", which is used for "no-participation mode", I think the other two-letter sub-domains are used for language codes. I think at one point in reddit's history doing things like de.reddit.com could give a german site, and so on. I'm not sure what "ud" would refer to, but I assume it's similar.
    - pvorb 8y ago
      Maybe "undefined"/"undetermined"?
    - Avery3R 8y ago
      np is implemented as a language code. Subreddits have to change their stylesheets for that language for it to work.
- ehsankia 8y ago
  I have no idea what ud is, I use old.reddit.com
deleted 8y ago
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lelf 8y ago
Try https://reddit.com/.compact https://reddit.com/.compact

SlightRespect 8y ago

Craigslist is _the_ case study on how an ugly UI can survive over a long timeline. There are many techies and UI designers that are just disgusted at the UI of craigslist. For some, aesthetic is more important than usability. Luckily, for most, it's not.

tenaciousDaniel 8y ago
Yes exactly. CL is probably my favorite website on the internet, for the sheer reason that they have virtually not changed at all since they first launched over 10 years ago. It's fairly incredible. I can't think of another website that has done that.
- aidenn0 8y ago
  http://rinkworks.com/ http://rinkworks.com/
  - tenaciousDaniel 8y ago
    holy shit
  - sevensor 8y ago
    This still exists?! It's still being updated?!?! So much more content than when I last checked it, which would have been 2004 or so. My faith in the internet is restored.
- stingraycharles 8y ago
  CL is only ten years old? I always figured it was from the 90s — maybe a bias originating from the design.
  - m741 8y ago
    It's over 20 years old, it launched in 1996. Time flies.

fiala__ 8y ago

I tried the new interface, and even after a couple of minutes I still couldn't find where my saved posts were. Went straight back to `old.`

thirdsun 8y ago

That’s the strange thing about reddit’s new design: It not only lacks functionality and performance, but also white space and clean aesthetics. It feels dated already.

opportune 8y ago
it was designed to make it easier to integrate ads
mzybert 8y ago
It's also slow, unresponsive and breaks all the time. The dark mode toggles back to bright mode randomly, posts sometimes don't render... It takes multiple seconds to render the comments in a thread. It's a mess.

pantalaimon 8y ago

The thing is that the new interface can take seconds to load whereas the old one was instant. How is this an improvement?

criddell 8y ago
It's better for them, not necessarily for you. Reddit wants lots of growth (they are taking new money now I think) and that means lots of new users that don't know the old UI. The new one is designed with those users in mind, not ones that know the site inside and out already.
- crowbahr 8y ago
  It's sanding down a barrier to entry that was already fairly low, in my opinion. They haven't really made it much lower either. Integrating RES into the main site would've been most of what they needed to get going...
  - criddell 8y ago
    They aren't going to care about what anybody on HN has to say about it because we aren't the audience they are after. They need hundreds of millions of new users and those have to come from Facebook and probably on mobile.
    - shakna 8y ago
      > and probably on mobile. The site isn't mobile-friendly though, is it? It's slow, bloated, and has repeated interstitials demanding you get their app if you deign to use mobile.
      - pantalaimon 8y ago
        There is an old mobile interface which is very quick and also easy to use. https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/
  - 8y ago

yoodenvranx 8y ago

The old mobile reddit site [0] is _amazing_! No whitespace, no padding! [0] The one which you can still reach by adding '.compact' to any reddit url

thefifthsetpin 8y ago

Given how aggressively reddit push their terrible no good very bad interface, I figure there has to be some advantage to them to my using it? I don't know what that could be, maybe users struggling to use the new interface looks like engagement to ads?

paulddraper 8y ago

> so much better In particular, faster. I need to have a supercomputer to scroll past the first few pages.

osrec 8y ago

The new UI isn't all that pretty either...