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Agreed. At least old Reddit didn’t require JS to load anything a didn’t show spinners every time you clicked on something.

IggleSniggle 6y ago
"New" reddit (not that new anymore) still _frequently_ just gets stuck on the spinners. Also with some frequency, when navigating to a page I've been to before, it will load everything from cache nicely, and then REPLACE THE CACHE WITH SPINNERS THAT NEVER LOAD THE CONTENT. Sometimes it will do this with a page I've never visited before, ie it will load the page and then replace it with the spinners and never load. Worst of both worlds. Grinds my gears. The _old_ reddit always just worked. I never had to reload the page multiple times, sometimes giving up entirely. Obviously I'm still using the site or I wouldn't be complaining, but like, what exactly was wrong with old reddit again?
- ehsankia 6y ago
  I just tried it for 30s, and on my first try opening a comment section, it just failed and gave me an error, then I had to press retry to get it to load. I get reddit failures maybe once a month normally, so I'm either super unlucky or new is very broken.
- danjac 6y ago
  I'd be interested to know what the rationale for the new design was. Some kind of dark patterns? Make people so disgusted with the web version they just download the native app, which provides better monitoring and "stickiness"? I mean, is anyone at Reddit actually proud of the redesign?
  - IggleSniggle 6y ago
    I assume a little of column A, little column B. Web devs who wanted a greenfield project and a PM willing to be convinced, because 1) old reddit still exists to fall back on and 2) in retrospect outcomes pushing users to mobile seemed to be good for monitoring and stickiness. I blame typical tech dysfunctions and the interests of users not align with short term stakeholder interests.

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Agreed. At least old Reddit didn’t require JS to load anything a didn’t show spinners every time you clicked on something.

by buzzert 6y ago

IggleSniggle 6y ago
"New" reddit (not that new anymore) still _frequently_ just gets stuck on the spinners. Also with some frequency, when navigating to a page I've been to before, it will load everything from cache nicely, and then REPLACE THE CACHE WITH SPINNERS THAT NEVER LOAD THE CONTENT. Sometimes it will do this with a page I've never visited before, ie it will load the page and then replace it with the spinners and never load. Worst of both worlds. Grinds my gears. The _old_ reddit always just worked. I never had to reload the page multiple times, sometimes giving up entirely. Obviously I'm still using the site or I wouldn't be complaining, but like, what exactly was wrong with old reddit again?
- ehsankia 6y ago
  I just tried it for 30s, and on my first try opening a comment section, it just failed and gave me an error, then I had to press retry to get it to load. I get reddit failures maybe once a month normally, so I'm either super unlucky or new is very broken.
- danjac 6y ago
  I'd be interested to know what the rationale for the new design was. Some kind of dark patterns? Make people so disgusted with the web version they just download the native app, which provides better monitoring and "stickiness"? I mean, is anyone at Reddit actually proud of the redesign?
  - IggleSniggle 6y ago
    I assume a little of column A, little column B. Web devs who wanted a greenfield project and a PM willing to be convinced, because 1) old reddit still exists to fall back on and 2) in retrospect outcomes pushing users to mobile seemed to be good for monitoring and stickiness. I blame typical tech dysfunctions and the interests of users not align with short term stakeholder interests.