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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
by 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...