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They're so hostile to their own users I'm not sure they get accurate results from their metrics. - They change you back to the new design every few days. - Th
by fossuser 6y ago
They're so hostile to their own users I'm not sure they get accurate results from their metrics.
- They change you back to the new design every few days.
- They constantly tell you to use the app (thankfully you can disable this at least).
- The old reddit design has a sidebar with helpful content, but this is not automatically present in the redesign. If you're a mod you have to manually copy that content over to the redesign and keep both updated separately. A lot of mods don't seem to know this so some communities just don't have their community information in the redesign.
- The new redesign on mobile web is so bad that those that don't know about how to get the old design will probably use the app to get something that works.
I'm glad old.reddit still exists, but I think if they just scrapped the entire new site it would be a better product. Probably worse for 'engagement' though because without infinite scroll, gifs loading everywhere, and other addictive hacks, people would just read what they wanted to and leave. The horror.
(Also r/hnblogs traffic has most people using the old design, but there's an obvious selection bias in that community.)
- toomim 6y ago> - They change you back to the new design every few days. This is so annoying that I have to use this chrome extension to force it back to old.reddit.com: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirect/dneaehbmnbhcippjikoajpoabadpodje https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
- nzgrover 6y agoLikewise for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
- Klonoar 6y agoLikewise, for Safari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oldr-for-reddit/id1475048161?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oldr-for-reddit/id1475048161?m... Disclaimer that I'm also the author.
- screye 6y ago> new redesign on mobile web is so bad The funniest part is plenty of 3rd party apps had been doing an amazing job already. All reedit had to do was acquire one of them on the cheap or steal design cues from the ones that were most popular. Instead they created this monstrosity which till date lags behind many 3rd party apps in features and fluidity. > old.reddit RES is the only way to use reddit, and they can pry it from my cold dead hands.
- ihuman 6y ago> All reedit had to do was acquire one of them on the cheap or steal design cues from the ones that were most popular. They already tried this with Alien Blue
- sudosysgen 6y agoWhy didn't they keep it?
- coldpie 6y agoTheir goal is not to make a good website, their goal is to show you ads.