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I personally love the new reddit design: it’s so miserable to use that it has broken my reddit addiction almost entirely! Now I just need HN to do something si

by jakear 6y ago

I personally love the new reddit design: it’s so miserable to use that it has broken my reddit addiction almost entirely! Now I just need HN to do something similar and maybe I’ll get back to being a productive member of society ;)

DangitBobby 6y ago
The site looks and performs fine to me with the redesign. The problems I have with it are the obnoxious "open in app!" Pop-up and the subreddit preview that interrupts the comment section... Totally unacceptable.
- jakear 6y ago
  Those two are the precise reasons I left actually.
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- arp242 6y ago
  It literally does not work on my laptop: it stutters all the time when scrolling, navigating, etc. It's unusable even with the greatest degree of patience. This happens in both Chrome and Firefox, both with the default settings (uBlock improves things slightly, but not by much). I genuinely thought there must be something wrong with my setup, but several of my friends have reported similar experiences across different platforms. Granted, I have a cheap not very fast laptop, but it's less than a year old and almost everything else works just fine – certainly not as horrendously slow as Reddit. These problems seem to disappear if you gave a faster machine from what I've been told. But, yeah; it's broken for millions of people who have low-end to medium hardware. I genuinely don't understand how they could ship something so dysfunctional for so many people.
- loco5niner 6y ago
  > The site looks and performs fine to me with the redesign Infinite scroll kills it after a while for me. You must spend less than 4 hours per session.
tumetab1 6y ago
I dislike the Reddit design only because I disagree with its goals: * Make users use the app * Make Reddit more like Instagram (browser visual content)

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I personally love the new reddit design: it’s so miserable to use that it has broken my reddit addiction almost entirely! Now I just need HN to do something si

by jakear 6y ago

DangitBobby 6y ago
The site looks and performs fine to me with the redesign. The problems I have with it are the obnoxious "open in app!" Pop-up and the subreddit preview that interrupts the comment section... Totally unacceptable.
- jakear 6y ago
  Those two are the precise reasons I left actually.
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    [deleted]
- arp242 6y ago
  It literally does not work on my laptop: it stutters all the time when scrolling, navigating, etc. It's unusable even with the greatest degree of patience. This happens in both Chrome and Firefox, both with the default settings (uBlock improves things slightly, but not by much). I genuinely thought there must be something wrong with my setup, but several of my friends have reported similar experiences across different platforms. Granted, I have a cheap not very fast laptop, but it's less than a year old and almost everything else works just fine – certainly not as horrendously slow as Reddit. These problems seem to disappear if you gave a faster machine from what I've been told. But, yeah; it's broken for millions of people who have low-end to medium hardware. I genuinely don't understand how they could ship something so dysfunctional for so many people.
- loco5niner 6y ago
  > The site looks and performs fine to me with the redesign Infinite scroll kills it after a while for me. You must spend less than 4 hours per session.
tumetab1 6y ago
I dislike the Reddit design only because I disagree with its goals: * Make users use the app * Make Reddit more like Instagram (browser visual content)