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I know this will never happen, but it would be interesting to see the percentage of Reddit users who took the time to opt out of the new "improved" interface.
by username223 8y ago
I know this will never happen, but it would be interesting to see the percentage of Reddit users who took the time to opt out of the new "improved" interface. I suspect that number is small, because most people have learned to just quietly sigh and accept random UI changes, but larger than the Reddit UI team would care to admit.
- gwern 8y agoIf you are a moderator of a reasonably popular subreddit, you can find out by checking the traffic statistics which breaks out old vs new! For example, for my little link-sharing subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/) : https://imgur.com/a/sUcEQeQ https://imgur.com/a/sUcEQeQ You can see a large fraction of the users have taken the time to optout, perhaps as much as a third (!) of those who can. Considering how passive most users are, this tells me that the new & expensive Reddit design is indeed loathed.
- username223 8y agoThanks! 1/3 opting out is indeed damning. I'm surprised they made those stats public. Hopefully a moderator of /r/programming, /r/news, /r/politics, or some other mega-popular subreddit will post their stats.
- plorkyeran 8y agoReddit tries pretty hard to force you back onto the new design, too. When not using old.reddit.com it "forgets" that I opted out of the redesign on a regular basis, and even old.reddit.com occasionally redirects to the new design.
- gwern 8y agoI think that might be a bug. That was happening to me on a daily or more frequent basis for a while, but I don't think I've had to redo the opt-out in like a week.