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 YouTu

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.