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I think it looks better. Better fonts, better element spacing. It just does not perform very well and seems to have a lot of "state" issues or inconsistent desi

I think it looks better. Better fonts, better element spacing. It just does not perform very well and seems to have a lot of "state" issues or inconsistent design elements. Reading comments and browsing is slower than it used to be, but I prefer the new look to the old one.

Fiveplus 6y ago
Good UI, bad UX.
- marrone12 6y ago
  Yes, exactly!
benhurmarcel 6y ago
The main feature that makes me use the new interface is the ability to collapse a thread from anywhere. It makes reading through comments much faster. The main drawback is that it's really too heavy for what it does. I don't understand the complains about the new design being image-heavy, or in general so much different from the old one. Once you set it (once) in "classic view", it's basically the same.
- TheDong 6y ago
  The complaint isn't that it's image-heavy, but javascript-heavy. If I load an old/new reddit tab and go to 'about:performance', here's the comparison: Old - Low impact - 22 MB memory usage - 4s to fully load on gigabit New - Med impact - 70 MB memory usage - 10s to fully load on gigabit
  - benhurmarcel 6y ago
    Fully agreed, the performance is atrocious. But a lot of other critics feel like the person haven't tried setting the view to "classic" or "compact".
- andinus 6y ago
  > The main feature that makes me use the new interface is the ability to collapse a thread from anywhere. [...] There is an add-on called "Reddit comment collapser" [0] that adds this to old reddit. [0]: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/reddit-comment-collapser https://github.com/tom-james-watson/reddit-comment-collapser