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I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

by Theizestooke 5y ago

est31 5y ago
There is also i.reddit.com, which is more mobile friendly than old.reddit.com.
- deleted 5y ago
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ChicagoBoy11 5y ago
What I've noticed is a few of the newer things breaking on it (unsurprisingly). I think over time it'll get to a point where there's enough of these new things where they'll just pull the plug, which is really too bad. Also love it much more than the "new" experience.
system2 5y ago
The day they turn off old.reddit.com reddit is dead to me. I've been on reddit 10 years and it was hard to understand why they chose this new disastrous design.
- xdfgh1112 5y ago
  That's their objective, to get rid of users who they can't monetize. Including veteran users with ad blockers who refuse to use the new site or any of its features.
  - deleted 5y ago
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- SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
  It's not just the design, it's the fact that it's buggy and frequently unresponsive. If it was well done I might be able to forgive them, but my phone tells me I have messages I can't see on the desktop even after I refresh the page.
  - LudwigNagasena 5y ago
    It’s more buggy, less responsive, has less features and consumes more resources. Literally its only pro is that it looks pretty.
    - dkdbejwi383 5y ago
      It looks "pretty" in the crappy modern way though where there's loads of whitespace and everything is hidden in a menu or tab somewhere. Give me "ugly" plain-ish text that is information dense.
      - Semaphor 5y ago
        The post-view in compact mode is actually denser than before (thought it has some ugly spacing issues at the top). It’s amazing. Sadly, there seems to be no compact mode for comments, so those look horrible. And well, considering how slow it is to use, I wouldn’t even use new Reddit then. New Reddit is really only for people who have a high tolerance to slow sites.
    - danielmg 5y ago
      fewer features
      - LudwigNagasena 5y ago
        I thought it is one of these “don’t end sentences with prepositions” weird rules no one really follows.
        iainmerrick 5y ago
        The prepositions one was invented after the fact, it has never been a real grammatical rule. “Fewer” versus “less” for countable things is more of an actual rule (but of course that doesn’t mean you’re obliged to follow it).
    - pier25 5y ago
- fighterpilot 5y ago
  What is it with modern UI and the tendency to be slow, to have a ridiculous amount of whitespace, and to have a copious number of round button-icons that are not intuitive? It's fucking insulting.
  - ugjka 5y ago
    It is slow because very few people can write effective and fast React code. And then they use WebGL to do fancy overlay animations
  - Fabricio20 5y ago
    It seems that, at least in reddit's case, the issue is preloading a lot of stuff that on the old website wasn't preloaded. Like videos. Ben Awad[0] made a quick technical comparison between the two websites and this was his conclusion. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkSiIBDDZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkSiIBDDZ8
    - pantalaimon 5y ago
      That's also what makes it pretty much unusable when you are on a slow mobile connection
  - asciimov 5y ago
    It's that companies let the designers design without any constraint on usability. Typically these designers are just fashionistas following the trendy crowd.
  - MiddleEndian 5y ago
    Several years ago, I went to a tech roundtable hosted by a well-known company, and this topic came up. Half the devs in the discussion sincerely didn't believe the new sluggish UI trend found on various social media and news sites was slow at all, because their metrics (presumably which measure some sort of server compute time) said they were not slower. It's some sort of religious fervor. "Who are you going to believe? Me(trics) or your own lying eyes!?"
- donio 5y ago
  I think Reddit knows it too, that's why old is still around. The Digg fiasco was a long time ago but must be still in their corporate subconscious.
- crummybowley 5y ago
  They wanted to give Digg some company.
- meowtimemania 5y ago
  I may be alone, but I prefer the new design. On the old reddit I didn't like how I had to click into a post to view its contents. On the new design most of the post contents are right there on the list page.
  - colinmhayes 5y ago
    Get RES
  - system2 5y ago
    You use RES for that. It shows everything and plays every video.
- pier25 5y ago
  Same. old.reddit.com + RES is still the best Reddit.
  - system2 5y ago
    RES is godsent.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y ago
  It isn't hard for me to understand their reasoning at all; 1. Appeals more to the mainstream, and to new users who are used to Facebook-style feeds. 2. Easier for them to disguise ads in user's feeds.
rootsudo 5y ago
They are killing the feed, I don't know for you, but for me it has seemed static.
trypietry 5y ago
Give teddit.net a look. Nitter.net for Twitter. I don’t know how long these sites will last with the demand there is for avenues that don’t prompt login.
- valvar 5y ago
  There are a lot of mirrors, too, as anyone can host an instance, so if those don't work you can always try others.
mortenjorck 5y ago
I exclusively use new Reddit. The increased friction around every single interaction is great for limiting the amount of time I spend there: it raises the bar for deciding to actually view a discussion, and the incomprehensible nesting-collapse algorithm keeps me from going down rabbit holes in threads unless it's something that genuinely interests me. It's similar to my YouTube usage. All the pre-roll ads ensure I only start videos I'm reasonably sure I'll want to watch, and mid-rolls are a perfect reminder to bail if I'm not fully invested in what I'm watching.
- genericone 5y ago
  Sounds like how I like my afternoon coffee, bitter without any additives. It reminds me I need to leave work if I've finished the important stuff for the day. A much needed kick in the guts that makes you purse your lips as you drink it down that puts the rest of the day in perspective.
- tifadg1 5y ago
  Actually that's a great idea - actively feeling pain every time you interact - whats more effective limiting consumption than that.
SynasterBeiter 5y ago
If you click the button to get rid of the cookie prompt on the bottom of the site while on old.reddit.com, it redirects you to new.reddit.com. Amazing.
ink 5y ago
Wow... I forgot how much better reddit on desktop used to be.
lambdaba 5y ago
There's a Chrome extension for redirecting to old.reddit.com: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirect/dneaehbmnbhcippjikoajpoabadpodje https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
- donatj 5y ago
  You can just uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience" in settings and get the old experience without an extension, if you have an account anyway.

I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

est31 5y ago

There is also i.reddit.com, which is more mobile friendly than old.reddit.com.

deleted 5y ago
[deleted]

ChicagoBoy11 5y ago

What I've noticed is a few of the newer things breaking on it (unsurprisingly). I think over time it'll get to a point where there's enough of these new things where they'll just pull the plug, which is really too bad. Also love it much more than the "new" experience.

system2 5y ago

The day they turn off old.reddit.com reddit is dead to me. I've been on reddit 10 years and it was hard to understand why they chose this new disastrous design.

xdfgh1112 5y ago
That's their objective, to get rid of users who they can't monetize. Including veteran users with ad blockers who refuse to use the new site or any of its features.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
It's not just the design, it's the fact that it's buggy and frequently unresponsive. If it was well done I might be able to forgive them, but my phone tells me I have messages I can't see on the desktop even after I refresh the page.
- LudwigNagasena 5y ago
  It’s more buggy, less responsive, has less features and consumes more resources. Literally its only pro is that it looks pretty.
  - dkdbejwi383 5y ago
    It looks "pretty" in the crappy modern way though where there's loads of whitespace and everything is hidden in a menu or tab somewhere. Give me "ugly" plain-ish text that is information dense.
    - Semaphor 5y ago
      The post-view in compact mode is actually denser than before (thought it has some ugly spacing issues at the top). It’s amazing. Sadly, there seems to be no compact mode for comments, so those look horrible. And well, considering how slow it is to use, I wouldn’t even use new Reddit then. New Reddit is really only for people who have a high tolerance to slow sites.
  - danielmg 5y ago
    fewer features
    - LudwigNagasena 5y ago
      I thought it is one of these “don’t end sentences with prepositions” weird rules no one really follows.
      - iainmerrick 5y ago
        The prepositions one was invented after the fact, it has never been a real grammatical rule. “Fewer” versus “less” for countable things is more of an actual rule (but of course that doesn’t mean you’re obliged to follow it).
  - pier25 5y ago
fighterpilot 5y ago
What is it with modern UI and the tendency to be slow, to have a ridiculous amount of whitespace, and to have a copious number of round button-icons that are not intuitive? It's fucking insulting.
- ugjka 5y ago
  It is slow because very few people can write effective and fast React code. And then they use WebGL to do fancy overlay animations
- Fabricio20 5y ago
  It seems that, at least in reddit's case, the issue is preloading a lot of stuff that on the old website wasn't preloaded. Like videos. Ben Awad[0] made a quick technical comparison between the two websites and this was his conclusion. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkSiIBDDZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkSiIBDDZ8
  - pantalaimon 5y ago
    That's also what makes it pretty much unusable when you are on a slow mobile connection
- asciimov 5y ago
  It's that companies let the designers design without any constraint on usability. Typically these designers are just fashionistas following the trendy crowd.
- MiddleEndian 5y ago
  Several years ago, I went to a tech roundtable hosted by a well-known company, and this topic came up. Half the devs in the discussion sincerely didn't believe the new sluggish UI trend found on various social media and news sites was slow at all, because their metrics (presumably which measure some sort of server compute time) said they were not slower. It's some sort of religious fervor. "Who are you going to believe? Me(trics) or your own lying eyes!?"
donio 5y ago
I think Reddit knows it too, that's why old is still around. The Digg fiasco was a long time ago but must be still in their corporate subconscious.
crummybowley 5y ago
They wanted to give Digg some company.
meowtimemania 5y ago
I may be alone, but I prefer the new design. On the old reddit I didn't like how I had to click into a post to view its contents. On the new design most of the post contents are right there on the list page.
- colinmhayes 5y ago
  Get RES
- system2 5y ago
  You use RES for that. It shows everything and plays every video.
pier25 5y ago
Same. old.reddit.com + RES is still the best Reddit.
- system2 5y ago
  RES is godsent.
0xdeadb00f 5y ago
It isn't hard for me to understand their reasoning at all; 1. Appeals more to the mainstream, and to new users who are used to Facebook-style feeds. 2. Easier for them to disguise ads in user's feeds.

rootsudo 5y ago

They are killing the feed, I don't know for you, but for me it has seemed static.

trypietry 5y ago

Give teddit.net a look. Nitter.net for Twitter. I don’t know how long these sites will last with the demand there is for avenues that don’t prompt login.

valvar 5y ago
There are a lot of mirrors, too, as anyone can host an instance, so if those don't work you can always try others.

mortenjorck 5y ago

I exclusively use new Reddit. The increased friction around every single interaction is great for limiting the amount of time I spend there: it raises the bar for deciding to actually view a discussion, and the incomprehensible nesting-collapse algorithm keeps me from going down rabbit holes in threads unless it's something that genuinely interests me. It's similar to my YouTube usage. All the pre-roll ads ensure I only start videos I'm reasonably sure I'll want to watch, and mid-rolls are a perfect reminder to bail if I'm not fully invested in what I'm watching.

genericone 5y ago
Sounds like how I like my afternoon coffee, bitter without any additives. It reminds me I need to leave work if I've finished the important stuff for the day. A much needed kick in the guts that makes you purse your lips as you drink it down that puts the rest of the day in perspective.
tifadg1 5y ago
Actually that's a great idea - actively feeling pain every time you interact - whats more effective limiting consumption than that.

SynasterBeiter 5y ago

If you click the button to get rid of the cookie prompt on the bottom of the site while on old.reddit.com, it redirects you to new.reddit.com. Amazing.

ink 5y ago

Wow... I forgot how much better reddit on desktop used to be.

lambdaba 5y ago

There's a Chrome extension for redirecting to old.reddit.com: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirect/dneaehbmnbhcippjikoajpoabadpodje https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

donatj 5y ago
You can just uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience" in settings and get the old experience without an extension, if you have an account anyway.