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This is the thing, i hate their new ui... and if ever they get rid of their 'old' ui I would leave reddit. Their "New UI" was brought in in 2018, and to me was

This is the thing, i hate their new ui... and if ever they get rid of their 'old' ui I would leave reddit. Their "New UI" was brought in in 2018, and to me was like a digg moment. To me, Hackernews is what Reddit was 10 years ago, just without subreddits. Clean top quality content.

kingcharles 5y ago
It's weird. I was a huge user of Reddit from its launch to 2013 when I fell off the Internet. I didn't use it again until 2021, so I had a big jump in UI. As a UX designer I really don't get all the hate about the current interface. It works great for me.
- jorvi 5y ago
  It has horrible performance issues even on something like 11400f with a 3070Ti.
- 0x0nyandesu 5y ago
  It's just a small amount of actual content in the space compared to the old interface (still up at old.reddit.com)
  - Gigachad 5y ago
    The actual visuals and layout are fine imo. I don’t need to see a billion posts at once. The problem is it runs like shit, gives errors all the time, and has a billion nag popups.
- romwell 5y ago
  It's literally 10x slower on all devices that I have, shows less content (particularly, long comment threads), and 100 other reasons they I'd sure hope you understood as a UX designer. It's 2021, I don't want to see a "Loading..." icon like I'm on dial-up in the 90s. Compare with https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com — open them side by side, refresh, click around. We can have a serious discussion about what sucks in the "new" UI, but I really hope it's obvious.
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    Honestly, I have seen no performance issues for new Reddit on any of the devices I own. And I own some really shit devices. I'm broke, so I bought the cheapest laptop on Amazon. My phones are the lowest free Android devices. Whereas about 80% of other sites on the Internet were unbrowseable until I installed an adblocker.
- Spivak 5y ago
  The UI is fine. It’s nothing special in terms of design but it’s not outright offensive except to people used to the old one. The issue is that it’s dog slow.
  - flenserboy 5y ago
    No, it isn't. The information-dense old style is useful, doesn't force scrolling (the forcing of which appears to be the intent, for whatever reason), and does not aid in quick scanning of material & moving on. It's intended to keep people desperate for content engaged while not giving them anything useful.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  It's just a sucky pile of JavaScript libraries.. I'm always stuck looking at the "pulsing gray bars as a placeholder for text" for way too long. They should focus on making it perform so it doesn't need tricks like that. My main driver isn't the fastest (skylake i5) but it's much slower than any of the other sites I use. And on my gaming pc (Ryzen 5 5600) it's slow too. And I have 1gbit fibre. Ps serious question, isn't it difficult being a UX designer when you've been off the internet for 8 years? Stuff has really changed a lot.
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    My only driver is a $300 Acer Windows 10 laptop and new Reddit works great for me on Chrome. I really don't think the Web has changed very much at all in the time I was gone. Pages are much better at being responsive. Bloat is 100X worse, but was solved by installing an adblocker. The cookie pop-ups can fuck themselves. But, fundamentally, nothing is different. I like that CSS and HTML have advanced to the point where it is simpler and cleaner to write good code if you are a decent human being.
- DangitBobby 5y ago
  Try navigating the comments from a post you found in a google search while not logged in.
- Rebelgecko 5y ago
  Just curious, did you abstain from the internet for 8 years? Or just Reddit?
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    Jail.
- NineStarPoint 5y ago
  The content density of old reddit is much higher than new Reddit. Additionally, I've always been deeply unhappy with endless scroll. Pagination just feels much more stable to me.
- probably_wrong 5y ago
  Fair point. For contrast, here's a list of reasons why I think Reddit's new UI sucks: 1. Stability: videos rarely play for me. Sometimes I break Reddit too (their words, not mine). 2. Slow: if I want to read the comments, I have to wait 3-5 seconds for them to load. I know that the comments could load instantly because the i.reddit.com interface can do it. 3. Unhelpful interface: it is not easy to identify how to expand a comment thread. But more important, the interface often won't tell me that a comment chain keeps going - it looks as if it just ended, even though it keeps going several levels deep. You can keep reading the chain if you click on the last comment, but again, why would you click on it if you don't know whether it keeps going? 3b. In relation to the previous point: I saw your comment because I was scrolling pretty deep into this thread. In the new Reddit UI it would have been cut off. 4. Annoying: if you're not logged in, content is kept from you just because. Again, the i.reddit.com interface shows everything, but the "regular" interface keeps pestering you with "Log in to see this content" or "Open in app". These popups cannot be dismissed. All of these changes are pro-metrics and anti-user. Sure, the interface itself looks fine (once it rendered, if it renders). But interaction-wise? It sucks.

kingcharles 5y ago

It's weird. I was a huge user of Reddit from its launch to 2013 when I fell off the Internet. I didn't use it again until 2021, so I had a big jump in UI. As a UX designer I really don't get all the hate about the current interface. It works great for me.

jorvi 5y ago
It has horrible performance issues even on something like 11400f with a 3070Ti.
0x0nyandesu 5y ago
It's just a small amount of actual content in the space compared to the old interface (still up at old.reddit.com)
- Gigachad 5y ago
  The actual visuals and layout are fine imo. I don’t need to see a billion posts at once. The problem is it runs like shit, gives errors all the time, and has a billion nag popups.
romwell 5y ago
It's literally 10x slower on all devices that I have, shows less content (particularly, long comment threads), and 100 other reasons they I'd sure hope you understood as a UX designer. It's 2021, I don't want to see a "Loading..." icon like I'm on dial-up in the 90s. Compare with https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com — open them side by side, refresh, click around. We can have a serious discussion about what sucks in the "new" UI, but I really hope it's obvious.
- kingcharles 5y ago
  Honestly, I have seen no performance issues for new Reddit on any of the devices I own. And I own some really shit devices. I'm broke, so I bought the cheapest laptop on Amazon. My phones are the lowest free Android devices. Whereas about 80% of other sites on the Internet were unbrowseable until I installed an adblocker.
Spivak 5y ago
The UI is fine. It’s nothing special in terms of design but it’s not outright offensive except to people used to the old one. The issue is that it’s dog slow.
- flenserboy 5y ago
  No, it isn't. The information-dense old style is useful, doesn't force scrolling (the forcing of which appears to be the intent, for whatever reason), and does not aid in quick scanning of material & moving on. It's intended to keep people desperate for content engaged while not giving them anything useful.
GekkePrutser 5y ago
It's just a sucky pile of JavaScript libraries.. I'm always stuck looking at the "pulsing gray bars as a placeholder for text" for way too long. They should focus on making it perform so it doesn't need tricks like that. My main driver isn't the fastest (skylake i5) but it's much slower than any of the other sites I use. And on my gaming pc (Ryzen 5 5600) it's slow too. And I have 1gbit fibre. Ps serious question, isn't it difficult being a UX designer when you've been off the internet for 8 years? Stuff has really changed a lot.
- kingcharles 5y ago
  My only driver is a $300 Acer Windows 10 laptop and new Reddit works great for me on Chrome. I really don't think the Web has changed very much at all in the time I was gone. Pages are much better at being responsive. Bloat is 100X worse, but was solved by installing an adblocker. The cookie pop-ups can fuck themselves. But, fundamentally, nothing is different. I like that CSS and HTML have advanced to the point where it is simpler and cleaner to write good code if you are a decent human being.
DangitBobby 5y ago
Try navigating the comments from a post you found in a google search while not logged in.
Rebelgecko 5y ago
Just curious, did you abstain from the internet for 8 years? Or just Reddit?
- kingcharles 5y ago
  Jail.
NineStarPoint 5y ago
The content density of old reddit is much higher than new Reddit. Additionally, I've always been deeply unhappy with endless scroll. Pagination just feels much more stable to me.
probably_wrong 5y ago
Fair point. For contrast, here's a list of reasons why I think Reddit's new UI sucks: 1. Stability: videos rarely play for me. Sometimes I break Reddit too (their words, not mine). 2. Slow: if I want to read the comments, I have to wait 3-5 seconds for them to load. I know that the comments could load instantly because the i.reddit.com interface can do it. 3. Unhelpful interface: it is not easy to identify how to expand a comment thread. But more important, the interface often won't tell me that a comment chain keeps going - it looks as if it just ended, even though it keeps going several levels deep. You can keep reading the chain if you click on the last comment, but again, why would you click on it if you don't know whether it keeps going? 3b. In relation to the previous point: I saw your comment because I was scrolling pretty deep into this thread. In the new Reddit UI it would have been cut off. 4. Annoying: if you're not logged in, content is kept from you just because. Again, the i.reddit.com interface shows everything, but the "regular" interface keeps pestering you with "Log in to see this content" or "Open in app". These popups cannot be dismissed. All of these changes are pro-metrics and anti-user. Sure, the interface itself looks fine (once it rendered, if it renders). But interaction-wise? It sucks.