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As an HN user I realize my opinion is biased, but when I look at reddit I don't think minimalist. In fact it seems somewhat cluttered.
by Qz 16y ago
As an HN user I realize my opinion is biased, but when I look at reddit I don't think minimalist. In fact it seems somewhat cluttered.
- Groxx 16y agoIt's minimalist if you consider "minimalism" to mean minimal decoration. Instead of, you know, minimalism.
- die_sekte 16y agoIs there some generally agreed upon definition for that?
- efsavage 16y agoYes.
- kn0thing 16y agoI kept telling Steve we needed more padding between those links ;) check out how it used to look... http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html
- keiferski 16y agoSemi-agreed. Reddit is minimal in that it is pretty simple and straightforward to use. Not minimal in the designed-to-be minimalist sense. The best example of this is Google and Apple. Both are minimalist. But Apple (arguably, of course) has a much better sense of design. Reddit is like Google.
- Qz 16y agoI'm not in the Apple boat, but I do know what you mean about the Google-iness of Reddit, and more generally the Google-iness of Google. Aside from google.com itself, there's something about everything they design that is very off-putting in a way that's hard to describe.
- die_sekte 16y agoLack of whitespace? Google Mail, YouTube, even their help pages are crammed full of content.
- equivalence 16y agoTo my eye anyway it always looks like Google got the developers to do the design as well (even though that's probably not the case), whereas Apples' designs have a little bit more of an "artistic" feel to them
- idonthack 16y agoturn on compressed link display in your preferences. it's what reddit originally looked like, and it's much more minimal than the current design