It doesn't... but the nature of Reddit has been clearly driven by the "new" interface. There's a lot less text-based technical content, and a lot more image/gi

It doesn't... but the nature of Reddit has been clearly driven by the "new" interface. There's a lot less text-based technical content, and a lot more image/gif meme-based content because that's what the new interface is optimized for - and it goes out of its way to make it very, very hard to see the deep text nested comments that are the dominant feature of the old interface (and HN). So, while you can browse the place with the old interface, the nature and trends of Reddit are mostly driven by the new interface. Which is fine, if they want to go that way, it's just a shame that what used to make it any good is dead or dying.