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Reddit is a corporation with a large amount of VC investment. Profit is a primary goal, and engagement that shows more time and thus more revenue is exactly wha
by manigandham 7y ago
Reddit is a corporation with a large amount of VC investment. Profit is a primary goal, and engagement that shows more time and thus more revenue is exactly what they want.
- ryandrake 7y agoIt would have been more honest of them to come out and just admit “yea, this new design is terrible but it juices our metrics and makes us more money so deal with it if you want Reddit to survive.” Also, Protip: in case anyone still doesn’t know, go to old.reddit.com for the previous, better interface. Who knows how long it will be kept alive though.
- realusername 7y ago> Also, Protip: in case anyone still doesn’t know, go to old.reddit.com for the previous, better interface. Who knows how long it will be kept alive though. I'm using an extension to automatically redirect to the old one. When the old site is gone, I will probably leave Reddit, the redesign is too unusable for me.
- SN76477 7y agoYep. I like HN but I miss the diversity of conversations. /r/synthesizers /r/starwarssleaks etc.
- manigandham 7y agoThe problem with that is assuming the new design is terrible for everyone. It very well could be that the majority do like it, and it's a vocal minority that complain.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoThe redesign is objectively terrible, adding megabytes of bloat to each page load for the sweet sweet ad revenue.
- manigandham 7y agoThe whole point of the redesign is to remove full page loads. Why are you downloading the entire payload every time?
- inferiorhuman 7y agoThe whole point of the redesign is to juice user engagement metrics and get that sweet, sweet ad revenue. You don't need megabytes upon megabytes of nonsense just to avoid some full page loads. Or take al ook at something like HN where it's light enough that a full page load isn't a problem.