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I love and used reddit over the last decade. The day they force me to use the redesign will be my last day. I really hope we will have an alternative or some

I love and used reddit over the last decade. The day they force me to use the redesign will be my last day. I really hope we will have an alternative or some 3rd party client because reddit is still a great way to get information or "socialize" with same minded people.

m0dest 6y ago
I've really loved Reddit's new design. It's very clean and focused. I found their old design to be cluttered and give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content. I frankly wasn't really interested in Reddit until the redesign.
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- solidasparagus 6y ago
  Oh my god I hate the redesign. Not the concept of it, but the execution. The stacked modals so that less than 1/3 of your screen is used for content. The laughably terrible performance and failure rate when loading comments that don't show on the main thread page. The fact that comments more than 3-4 layers deep can't be expanded on the same page and to see them you have to go to a different page. And when you do that, it saves your vertical scroll position so that they jump you past all the contents you were trying to look at, to where the 'related posts' are. Like honestly how hard is it to build a UI where the comment tree expands in-place? I honestly think it's the worst engineered site on the internet that operates with that scale of users.
  - AdmiralGinge 6y ago
    The whole component simply known as "the comments" is terrible, my only theory is that someone is paying them to destructively test mice through needless clicks.
    - solidasparagus 6y ago
      My theory is that they are struggling to monetize a website that is extremely expensive to run and the engineering team is either too small or is forced to spend all of their time trying to develop monetization features.
      - entropie 6y ago
        Are there numbers about the money the make? I think gold brings quite a lot. But otherwise I think (and fear) reddit might be a great influencing tool if done correctly.
- modo_mario 6y ago
  > give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content How so? I don't see what changed on that front.
ptlu 6y ago
The Apollo client on iOS is wonderful. Not affiliated or anything, I just love it. https://apolloapp.io/ https://apolloapp.io/
- Polylactic_acid 6y ago
  Slide for reddit on android is great. None of the new garbage and you can download videos.
  - pantalaimon 6y ago
    Or just use https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/
    - boring_twenties 6y ago
      Slide is definitely a better experience than that. It's also released under the GPL and available at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/
nothal 6y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned that you can change to old reddit styling using the settings menu in the top right. That said, Reddit has become mindless fluff which makes me actively less happy.
slowmovintarget 6y ago
Every time I land in it and try to actually read a thread, it fails to display additional comments when I click Read More. It bounces around to a reload of the "card" with the same handful of comments showing. The new design is literally unusable.
- imtringued 6y ago
  You have to scroll up. It's absolutely stupid.

m0dest 6y ago

I've really loved Reddit's new design. It's very clean and focused. I found their old design to be cluttered and give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content. I frankly wasn't really interested in Reddit until the redesign.

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solidasparagus 6y ago
Oh my god I hate the redesign. Not the concept of it, but the execution. The stacked modals so that less than 1/3 of your screen is used for content. The laughably terrible performance and failure rate when loading comments that don't show on the main thread page. The fact that comments more than 3-4 layers deep can't be expanded on the same page and to see them you have to go to a different page. And when you do that, it saves your vertical scroll position so that they jump you past all the contents you were trying to look at, to where the 'related posts' are. Like honestly how hard is it to build a UI where the comment tree expands in-place? I honestly think it's the worst engineered site on the internet that operates with that scale of users.
- AdmiralGinge 6y ago
  The whole component simply known as "the comments" is terrible, my only theory is that someone is paying them to destructively test mice through needless clicks.
  - solidasparagus 6y ago
    My theory is that they are struggling to monetize a website that is extremely expensive to run and the engineering team is either too small or is forced to spend all of their time trying to develop monetization features.
    - entropie 6y ago
      Are there numbers about the money the make? I think gold brings quite a lot. But otherwise I think (and fear) reddit might be a great influencing tool if done correctly.
modo_mario 6y ago
> give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content How so? I don't see what changed on that front.

ptlu 6y ago

The Apollo client on iOS is wonderful. Not affiliated or anything, I just love it. https://apolloapp.io/ https://apolloapp.io/

Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Slide for reddit on android is great. None of the new garbage and you can download videos.
- pantalaimon 6y ago
  Or just use https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/
  - boring_twenties 6y ago
    Slide is definitely a better experience than that. It's also released under the GPL and available at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/

nothal 6y ago

Surprised no one has mentioned that you can change to old reddit styling using the settings menu in the top right. That said, Reddit has become mindless fluff which makes me actively less happy.

slowmovintarget 6y ago

Every time I land in it and try to actually read a thread, it fails to display additional comments when I click Read More. It bounces around to a reload of the "card" with the same handful of comments showing. The new design is literally unusable.

imtringued 6y ago
You have to scroll up. It's absolutely stupid.