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Ask HN: Is “new” Reddit completely unusable for anyone else?

262 points by aosaigh 7y ago

I notice that when browsing Reddit day-to-day I am constantly getting either "Sorry, we couldn't load posts for this page" on a subreddit page or "Cannot load comments" on a thread page. This isn't just happening occasionally, it's been happening daily over the course of weeks. There's been a lot of hate for the "new" Reddit design but outside of the actual usability of the site, there seems to be some huge problems from a technical perspective. I've tried multiple browsers, internet connections,VPN enabled/disabled and it's always the same. I now just use https://old.reddit.com, but I'd be interested to hear if other people have the same experience? It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site.

skunkpocalypse 7y ago
Yes.
B_Throwaway 7y ago
Not to mention the horrendous CPU usage.
pyeu 7y ago
It is poorly designed in terms of loading. I cannot wait for so longgggggggg. I always prefer to switch to http://old.reddit.com/ http://old.reddit.com/
cylinder714 7y ago
If you're on a mobile device, try appending ".compact" to the URL to get the old mobile version. For example, "https://www.reddit.com/r/cooking/.compact" https://www.reddit.com/r/cooking/.compact"
- zokier 7y ago
  https://i.reddit.com https://i.reddit.com works too
  - cylinder714 7y ago
    Even better!
- HNLurker2 7y ago
  We can make a bookmarklet that does that. javascript:window.location =".compact"
gilrain 7y ago
I also constantly get errors while browsing new Reddit. It's astounding.
hardmaru 7y ago
I can't stand the new reddit. I always browse the site with https://old.reddit.com/ https://old.reddit.com/ Just replace www with old.
- superkuh 7y ago
  old.reddit.com is okay, but it now requires the temp whitelisting of 2 or sometimes 3 javascript domains. Not just reddit.com like was required in the past. Given that, it's just easier to use the ceddit.com javascript interface to pull from the API and get the actual old reddit experience. But even worse than the redesign is the new corporate culture of censorship. I left after they banned r/gundeals. They're boiling the frog over there. Nowadays I mostly use RSS feeds and if I want to talk about something I post on the notabug forums (federated+p2p capable).
  - mayniac 7y ago
    I hadn't seen notabug before. Visited the site and this was the current top post (censored by me): "Should I complain about a nXXXXr cashier braying like a donkey?" That's not a great first impression... As a side note, anyone know how to do multiple asterisks on HN? Backslash doesn't seem to work as an escape character.
    - superkuh 7y ago
      No doubt. The people at notabug, mostly, are the most abrasive assholes that have been pushed out from other sites. They're not good people. You gotta be the change you want to see. I often post about technology and science there. But I'm simply not enough to make the frontpage always tolerable to people that can't ignore assholes. Sometimes there are strings of racist posts but that's still better than corporate censorship. The people aren't the point. The technology is. It's a federated server system using the GUN distributed database. And posts can be transferred from instance to instance via p2p between browsers. If you want to start a notabug server you can run it with an iron fist and censor all you want. But notabug, at heart, is about not censoring. Even for people who suck and say shitty things.
m-p-3 7y ago
It's mostly fine for what I do but I really hate the infinite scrolling, add if I scroll down for a while it will eat so much RAM that it starts to slow down. On mobile I just use Sync for Reddit, the UI is sane, fast and pretty.
vbezhenar 7y ago
Never had those problems. I'm not a very dedicated redditor, though, just checking few forums once a few days and reading some topics. The only thing that I hate about reddit is that they want me to install their application on my mobile phone and that application is inferior to browser, so I don't even want to install it and I can't opt out of that warning which appears on every single page.
nkristoffersen 7y ago
I started really using Reddit when the new UI came out, plus I am 99.999% browsing on mobile. So with that said, I don't have any problem with the new Reddit since it is what "Reddit" has always been to me.
michaelbuckbee 7y ago
Due to RSI issues, I make extensive use of the Vimium Chrome extension (keyboard navigation of websites) and the new Reddit design works substantially worse than the older design. This appears to be due to the new design loading "pages" as "layers" on the browser viewport - so you have overlapping layers all with intermixed links shortcuts.
- PsylentKnight 7y ago
  Reddit enhancement suite has vim-like keybindings. I use that, and then disable some of the Vimium keys on Reddit. I also use a plugin that automatically redirects Reddit to old.reddit.com. I don't know how well RES works with the redesign.
hlandau 7y ago
The new design is godawful and unusable, especially without JavaScript. Switching to old.reddit.com is a breath of fresh air. The juxtaposition seems like an ideal case study in how bad modern web design is. I swear it's almost like web designers are trying to make things worse.
- robin_reala 7y ago
  It’s not the designers’ fault, it’s developers seeing everything as a technology problem rather than a user needs problem (and I’m speaking as a developer). The best solution for any given problem is usually the simplest, at least until you find that you specifically need extra complexity to solve a user need. Unfortunately modern client-side development is fixed in a mindset of developer efficiency above all, which doesn’t naturally lead to simple solutions.
  - imustbeevil 7y ago
    Even as a tech problem, the new UI puts less information on the screen and makes it harder to interact with. It's worse by every observable metric, and I can't imagine they have successful A/B testing, because every other site on the internet that does a redesign (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) commits to it, and Reddit has allowed users to stay on old reddit for like a year now. The weirdest thing is that successful alternative reddit UIs exist, so all they would have to do is incorporate the features people are using alternative UIs for. They did virtually the opposite of that. This is exactly what Digg did, and the solution for Digg wasn't "allow people to use old Digg", it was "Everyone left and went to reddit".
    - slig 7y ago
      This time, though, Reddit doesn't have a suitable competitor and they know it. Power users will whine, but they don't have anywhere else to run.
    - zzzcpan 7y ago
      > A/B testing Despite popular belief, A/B testing doesn't actually work for usability testing. So successful A/B testing usually means bad usability practices.
draw_down 7y ago
I get the “sorry” message a lot too. The mobile version of the site is unfortunately riddled with bugs big and small, to where you can tell they don’t use it themselves. But I’m not downloading their app, sorry.
hprotagonist 7y ago
Yep. i use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... for firefox and apollo on iOS.
leke 7y ago
It's fine because I just opt out of the redesign.
buboard 7y ago
> It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site. It's not the first one really. I can count many products that i use daily and have gone down the drain. There is obviously some "change for the sake of change" or just to get a promotion here. Reddit, Skype, adsense off top of my head
- faissaloo 7y ago
  Or most notably, Digg
- brokenmachine 7y ago
  Also countless google examples, but they like to get rid of entire popular products.
wazoox 7y ago
The new design is slow as mollasses. It's ugly. It doesn't provide direct access to both the shared link and comments. Managing text formatting is slow and painful. The only positive point is the Ctrl+enter shortcut to post comments. I always use old.reddit.com.
- hrunt 7y ago
  This is the first HN comment I have seen that actually describes what about the new design makes it unusable. Most that I have seen are "The new design is unusable! Everyone agrees with me! I use old.reddit.com and do not use the new design!" A few comments point out that nothing loads without errors, but that's not a design problem -- that's an implementation problem. With that said, I am throwing my hat into the "I disagree" camp. I do not find the new design unusable. It is not slow for me (American cable ISP, Firefox browser, uBlock Origin enabled, JavaScript enabled). My experience is just as fast as the old design. I have direct access to both the shared link and comments (the title now goes to the comments and the shared link is the orange link to the right of the title). I admit I did have to retrain my brain to the new design's conversation-focused design vs. remote-link-focused design, but that took all of a week. I do not have any slowness managing text formatting, but then, I do not comment a lot and I do not write long comments. I appreciate that the new design, on most subreddits, appears cleaner and the information, for me, is more clearly laid out. To me, the site appears "prettier." With the ad-blocker on, some of the sidebar ads get blocked. I do not know how that impacts my experience. I have also not experienced any of the page loading errors that people have described. Not once, unless it was a known outage causing the Internet to collectively scream. I am mostly a reader on reddit. I visit my subreddits twice a day, during what are probably peak usage times in North America.
  - wazoox 7y ago
    I just checked, opened https://old.reddit.com/r/france https://old.reddit.com/r/france : less than 2 seconds, the page is fully loaded. Tried https://www.reddit.com/r/france/ https://www.reddit.com/r/france/: more than 4 seconds before the page is loaded. Loading : https://old.reddit.com/r/france/comments/ccs5tx/emmanuel_macron_annonce_la_cr%C3%A9ation_dun/ https://old.reddit.com/r/france/comments/ccs5tx/emmanuel_mac... is about 2 seconds. Loading: https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/ccs5tx/emmanuel_macron_annonce_la_cr%C3%A9ation_dun/ https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/ccs5tx/emmanuel_mac... about 6 seconds. The new reddit looks therefore 2 to 3 times slower.
jccalhoun 7y ago
The thing I hate the most about the redesign is that now everything takes an extra click. On old reddit the subreddits were right there on the left. Now they are in a drop down menu. If I wanted to switch between new and top stories it used to be right there at the top. Now it is hidden behind a drop down menu.
- aitchnyu 7y ago
  I'm feeling gaslit into a world where PCs which can show everything on a single screen abuse whitespace, hide info and require lots of extra taps.
  - jccalhoun 7y ago
    I have joked that maybe Reddit is a shill for Big Mouse because they are making us click so much we will wear out our mice and have to buy new ones more quickly.
lousken 7y ago
I've given up on new reddit as soon as they implemented lazy loading for comments, at this point i'm just using old reddit with ?limit=500&sort=top added
HNLurker2 7y ago
Yes and very slow to load. And also very unusable because it alternates between old and new ui. Https://i.reddit.com is the only thing that works but I think I'll stop using alltogethe
lasagnaphil 7y ago
I think the UI design isn't that bad; I actually like the large thumbnails in the new UI better because I like to view a lot of art. But it's the performance that makes it disgustingly horrible - I wonder if someone made a sane desktop UI replacement for Reddit.
- jumbopapa 7y ago
  They're are so many extensions that made old reddit far superior. Namely Reddit Enhancement Suit and Imagus (which is good for the large thumbnails you like)
  - lasagnaphil 7y ago
    It seems that Imagus is not maintained anymore... but at least Reddit Enhancement Suite gives you a button to view images inline. Thanks for the suggestion!
    - jumbopapa 7y ago
      I think Imagus is maintained still... Last update says 5 hours ago. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagus/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagus/
edgarvm 7y ago
I use i.reddit.com it's faster and usable
jumbopapa 7y ago
Yeah, it's pretty awful. I use Old Reddit Redirect [1] to always get to the old site. If they ever remove old reddit I will likely quit using the service. [1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
pjc50 7y ago
Yes, but I eventually realised what it's optimised for: image posts. For some insane reason they're competing with Instagram and Reddit's co-evolved site Imgur, on which people read comments much less often. They also really, really want you to use the mobile app, which presumably means it does something privacy-violating.
- CamelCaseName 7y ago
  I think the push to mobile is to increase lock in and engagement, not to gather sensitive data. From my in person discussion with some of the admins, they seemed to genuinely care about privacy. With regard to the layout, the head of the redesign really emphasized that user choice was important, and that they will never deprecate old.reddit (in fact, they still have .compact from their very early days!). In a way, it makes sense. "Hardcore" users will use RES / old.reddit, while casuals will be pushed to new.reddit, which may be a better fit for them. My takeaway from talking to them was that, even if I don't believe in their product vision (I hate the app and redesign passionately), I do believe in their team to do the right thing. I hope my trust is well placed.
  - Crinus 7y ago
    > casuals will be pushed to new.reddit, which may be a better fit for them. Why would new.reddit be a better fit for "casuals" when it is worse is pretty much every way?
    - laken 7y ago
      Before the redesign, in my circles of non-tech friends, Reddit on desktop would scare them off. They thought it looked really old and ugly. The new design is really to capture those people. That said, I hate new Reddit with a passion and still use the old design.
  - everdrive 7y ago
    I think website admins and operators live in a bit of a different world. They may earnestly care about privacy, but I'd bet they're defining privacy differently than users who are concerned about privacy. Further, engagement & lock-in is often bad for users, whether or not privacy is violated.
notadev 7y ago
>It boggles my mind that a redesign could be implemented so poorly on such a popular site. The irony of this statement is that Reddit _really_ became popular when Digg, who was the top link sharing site at the time, rolled out a new clunky ad-friendly redesign that caused a mass exodus of users to Reddit.
- nexuist 7y ago
  ...which makes me wonder if this could ever happen again today, given that all of our data is being pushed into tighter and tighter silos with less integration than ever before (I'll admit Reddit has been better in this regard with its API and abundance of 3rd party clients). It seems like a lot of social networks rely on the network effect more than their actual features, and in the worst case they can just e.g. implement features from other platforms gaining traction (Facebook is infamous for this, stealing circles from G+ and stories from Snapchat). Reddit usurped Digg because it was technically superior. Could another technically superior website overtake Reddit?
  - Crinus 7y ago
    A difference is that Digg didn't keep the old design around. With Reddit you can simply use old.reddit and forget about the redesign while being in the same communities you were already (no need to wait for the entire community to move). Considering that Reddit already has two mobile interfaces (i.reddit.com - which i personally prefer due to it being very fast - and m.reddit.com) and two desktop interfaces, i doubt they'll drop old.reddit at any point. It is a form of backwards compatibility on a UX level.
  - taurath 7y ago
    The thing about the network effect is sometimes the network decides to leave. MySpace flowed all into Facebook just as digg flowed into Reddit. The companies have been spending lots and lots of money to build a moat but as they make money they do the things that makes other platforms seem more attractive.
  - president 7y ago
    I don't think it could happen today. Reddit has too much critical mass and the community is too diverse. Back then Digg was a smaller and more close-knit community of mostly techies that mostly agreed on the same things. There was a movement a few years ago where some Redditors tried to create a Reddit alternative called Voat, which ultimately failed.
HiroshiSan 7y ago
Yeah, this happens to me as well, I'll want to scroll when I have 5 minutes here or there and I'll run into the same problems. The reddit I knew and loved is gone, and it's filled with usability issues and politics all over. As soon as the new redesign happened, I knew it was the first nail in a very large coffin. Reddit is going the way of the dodo and I'm not sure there could be anything to replace it with the way the internet seems to be going. (I apologize for some very vague opinions as I haven't really dug deeper into these thoughts and so they're merely just feelings I have)
sramsay 7y ago
Honestly, the new design might be better, but I'll never know, because like you, every single page throws an error. How can one of the most heavily trafficked sites in the world be so completely broken? I'm not sure. I can certainly summon lots of examples of terrible design that didn't hinder a site's success in the slightest. But I can't think of many sites that succeed despite throwing constant errors.
znpy 7y ago
Since they deployed the new user interface it became unusable. The old UI was lighter, faster and more intuitive/usable.
thomasfl 7y ago
Reddit was best when it had almost the excact user interface as this site, hacker news.
- brokenmachine 7y ago
  All sites are best with simple interfaces. So sick of web 2.0 bullshit. I just want simple paginated interfaces.
arianvanp 7y ago
YES. and 90% of the videos do not load on mobile either
elpocko 7y ago
It's unbearable. Reddit's dev and design staff is not very competent. They probably have lots of virtues, being good at their job is not one of them.
- buboard 7y ago
  What surprises me is that their ads manager is also amateurish (it got a redesign too!) and i mean real amateur stuff like broken images. And that is their money maker!
  - isugimpy 7y ago
    Would be very curious to hear more specific examples of this one, haven't seen it firsthand.
outime 7y ago
Unless I missed someone, every single comment (including myself) agrees: the new site is just unusable. It’s awful. IMHO it’s been broken since they released it and so it makes me think that they won’t fix it so people will switch to the app (or that’s what they might be thinking). Like many others I use the old design and if they get rid of it then I’ll just skip Reddit entirely.
- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  A peek outside the echo chamber: my roommates and girlfriend use Reddit. They don't have anything bad to say about the UI nor are aware HNers hate it. They didn't even know it changed, they just don't seem to care. I use old.reddit.com out of habit, but don't really care when I land on the new UI. I just use it. People blow it way out of proportion. I like some of its features, like how it's now a modal over the infinite scroll. I don't have to open everything in a new tab anymore in fear of losing my place in the scroll or having that "sorry, no more pages, start over" message. I really don't see much worth fuming over. The Digg redesign basically turned it into a weird news site e-zine. Meanwhile the Reddit redesign has the exact same spirit as the old one.
  - shsh 7y ago
    Found the reddit designer
    - dang 7y ago
      Not here please.
  - wetpaws 7y ago
    By the nature of the normal distribution there would be some people who would love new design. That's fine but it doesn't mean it is good.
    - wingerlang 7y ago
      And just because a bunch of HNers (and redditors) despise it doesn’t mean it is bad. I am sure the vast vast majority is totally indifferent to the design. I’ve used reddit for around a decade at this point and the new design is much better imo. I tried using old reddit a week or so after it changed and no thanks to that.. I also don’t have issues with speed and errors like others say.
qserasera 7y ago
New design is getting faster every day. That said I have little reason to use the new design.
Waterluvian 7y ago
I love that there's three locations eating up 1/3 of the screen telling me to use the mobile app instead.
- non-entity 7y ago
  The mobile app is worse than the redesign! Can't copy text via the OS interface, no sort of spell check whatsoever in the textboxes and constantly failing to load posts that the website does just fine.
CriticalCathed 7y ago
I moderate one of the "default" subreddits so I have a rarer perspective than most. I can see the traffic of a subreddit that most users see daily. There are almost 3 times more people using the redesign and the official reddit app together than the old site. However, engagement (number of page views per unique IP) is half or less of the old desktop or third party app. So the new styles (cards, content focused) have more unique users overall, but those users engage less with the content. There may be other reasons for this -- but to me it makes sense. The redesigns are harder to use and make reddit less addictive. You simply see a smaller volume of content and can't interact with it as well. But hey, it's a modern looking website I guess.
- bob_theslob646 7y ago
  >There are almost 3 times more people using the redesign and the official reddit app together than the old site. However, engagement (number of page views per unique IP) is half or less of the old desktop or third party app I am confused at what you mean by engagement. Is that three times more users by unique ip? Overall, are their more unique users or less?
- bonniemuffin 7y ago
  This finding seems confounded by biased populations: "engagement (number of page views per unique IP) is half or less of the old desktop or third party app". I would expect that only the most engaged users would be using old desktop or third party app, since those are much harder to find and require much more effort (such as digging through settings, or investigating other app options). The less engaged, casual users would be using the default options (new web or default mobile app) because they're much easier to find. Therefore I propose the causation goes the opposite direction of what you're suggesting: it's not that old web/3rd party app cause users to be more engaged, but rather that being highly engaged causes users to use old web/3rd party app.
CDSlice 7y ago
I actually really like the redesign. However I can't really use it because it keeps not loading posts and having other glitches. The Sync app for Android doesn't have these problems and is what I use to browse Reddit almost all of the time.
faissaloo 7y ago
I have carpal tunnel syndrome, so I like to use a plugin called SurfingKeys to reduce my use of pointing devices. It was completely unusable however when given the new Reddit so I switched back.
moltar 7y ago
I think this redesign will go the way Digg did.
- arduinomancer 7y ago
  I doubt it. There isn't really any competitor right now and Reddit has a lot of credibility from stuff like AMA's with celebrities.
mcintyre1994 7y ago
It's recently started triggering the 'a webpage is slowing down your computer' message on Firefox for me, which is a pretty good sign they're doing something crazy.
segmondy 7y ago
I didn't think about it till now, but I went from checking reddit once a day before the design to never now. I don't go to reddit anymore, unless I see a link from another site. The only thing that did change was the new site. I had my own custom list of subreddits that I frequented and that's not even enough to get me to keep using it.
sdinsn 7y ago
Yes. I only use old reddit
- proc0 7y ago
  Same, will stop occasionally visiting entirely once they dare take it down. Many new options popping up.
sunstone 7y ago
Personally I've kept with the old style by using https://old.reddit.com/r/topic1+topic2+topic3 https://old.reddit.com/r/topic1+topic2+topic3
arduinomancer 7y ago
I think they're trying to capture new people to the site, outside of the original tech nerd demographic. To do this they made reddit look at lot more like YouTube. Personally I just hate the lack of information density. It just feels bloated, slow, and too much whitespace. New users probably don't care though. I remember the original interface would scare off some people originally because they thought it was ugly.
Retroity 7y ago
It is the worst redesign I've ever seen on a major website like this for a number of reasons. It's needlessly heavy on resources, it's slow, it's difficult to navigate, it's filled to the brim with ads, it's uninspired and takes away all of the charm of the old design in favor of making Reddit look like a more generic social media, it doesn't work with the wayback machine, and that's just scratching the surface. It's such a awful design. I've explicitly opted out of the new design on my account, and I use old.reddit.com whenever I'm not signed in.
- jedmeyers 7y ago
  Why aren’t you using old.reddit when you are signed in?
  - regecks 7y ago
    You can, but the problem with using old.reddit.com is that clicking on reddit.com links (e.g. from reddit comments) will take you back to the new design. With the opt-out, you get the old design no matter what.
    - Quekid5 7y ago
      I think people have even go so far as to make browser extensions to automatically rewrite "reddit.com" to "old.reddit.com". The redesign looks... well, I don't even know where to start, but it's pretty clear that users aren't the focus and they've sold out completely to corporate interests. I'd actually be OK with some of this if they were forthright and honest about this shift in focus, but they're trying to say that the new design is 'better', etc. That's nonsense and lies. EDIT: Oh, yeah, just remembered: IIRC the failure to link properly to 'old.reddit.com' on links that Reddit have full control over was registered as a 'bug' instead of an obvious way to drive traffic to the redesign. EDIT#2: This is also what drove people to write browser extensions. The value of reddit has always been in the communities, not the design (or whatever).
    - acoard 7y ago
      https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirect/dneaehbmnbhcippjikoajpoabadpodje https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec... Redirect extension to always get old.reddit.com. I've been using it for years without issue. It's one of the very few extensions I have that is enabled in Incognito mode. But I still feel your pain whenever I'm on another computer without the extension and forget to type the old url.
stevebz 7y ago
Reddit UI became impossible to use. Only using old.reddit.com if at all, but I generally block the site as it's to much distraction.
nullwasamistake 7y ago
It's basically unusable, as is Twitter. It's to get you to download the app.
unixsheikh 7y ago
I absolutely hate the new design, not because it is slow (it's not on my end), but because it is such a pain to use. User friendliness has gone out the window and I cannot fathom how such a poor redesign could ever be implemented on such a high traffic site. If the old design gets removed, I will stop using Reddit permanently.
el_dev_hell 7y ago
The new desktop design is unusable. BUT the mobile experience of reddit (to scroll mindlessly) is super polished.
rurban 7y ago
It's completely unusable, but it's barely usable and outright annoying. From to time I forget to switch to old.reddit.com
Jazgot 7y ago
Paradoxically the old reddit on mobile is way more usable than the new one. The other sin is AMP. Every time I visit reddit from Google, I need to go through additional steps, to be able to vote, comment etc.
beagle3 7y ago
Also, resource lists, wikis and a lot of other features are only available in the old design - and there isn’t even a mention of them when browsing the new one. Lots and lots of easily accessible and well referenced and summarized knowledge essentially invisible.
phillipcarter8 7y ago
The new desktop design is unusable.
CogitoCogito 7y ago
One of the lines in my /etc/hosts file is the following: 127.0.0.1 reddit.com www.reddit.com I put it in so that it would force me to use old.reddit.com instead. After a couple weeks old.reddit.com has became entirely automatic.
OtterEcho 7y ago
Has anybody else noticed the complete conversion from generalized subreddits on r/all to oddly specific ones focused around calling people out from a placae of "moral high ground"? I really hate it now.
- ehonda 7y ago
  Yes I have noticed. Perhaps they are catering to the tastes of the majority of their user base (whatever generates a flurry of clicks). And this is the... result.
typenil 7y ago
Definitely experience the constant loading problems. Honestly good to hear I'm not the only one. I assumed it was something they didn't like about my setup. Since the redesign, my Reddit use has dropped off a cliff.
strikelaserclaw 7y ago
YES, theres an extension on chrome and firefox which esentially redirects all reddit links to old reddit, its a godsend.
quickthrower2 7y ago
No I honestly don’t mind it. Although I heat the old reddit vs new reddit thing come up every now and then. I don’t think it’s better but it’s no harder to use.
Endy 7y ago
I hate New Reddit, frankly. I always use old on desktop. And on Android, I use a program called RedReader, from F-Droid. It's a (mostly) text-only reader - I can open pics and video of I tap it, but by default only text gets downloaded.
parliament32 7y ago
old.reddit.com is the only way I browse reddit. That original simplistic design was the whole reason I started with Reddit in the first place -- the new design is just really bad, for many reasons. If they ever enforce the new design I'll probably end up staying away from the site alltogether. Some stats, testing from pingdom's site analyzer: old reddit homepage: 80 assets, 1.1mb new reddit homepage: 283 assets, 5.1mb That's a serious regression. I'm not interested in tiled youtube-style presentation -- information density was always the nice thing about Reddit, and it seems like they're moving away from objective. If you're on Firefox use Old Reddit Redirect to auto-redirect all Reddit links to old: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
Japhy_Ryder 7y ago
It's absolute garbage. Slow and insanely buggy. old.reddit.com is the only way to use it now.
bipinvk9 7y ago
Am quite new to the New Reddit. I love it! By the way, I can understand the pain of all the older users.
whenchamenia 7y ago
Reddit has made it clear they dont want me as a user. I avoid that cesspool.
axilmar 7y ago
I have setup my reddit account to use the old reddit, because for the desktop, the old one is much better than the new one. However, on my phone, the new one is better.
ausbah 7y ago
I like the new style, but the execution seems less than ideal.
Spoom 7y ago
I literally cannot log out of the new Reddit design on mobile. The log out link simply does not work from Chrome. Clearing my cookies for reddit.com does not solve the problem. It baffles my mind both how this is possible and how the system could be designed so poorly that the situation exists at all. I get around it by using an alternative client, "reddit is fun", when I want to use an alt.