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The redesign has one major advantage from their point of view (which I suspect was the reason behind it in the first place) - the individual posts on main scree
by burntoutfire 5y ago
The redesign has one major advantage from their point of view (which I suspect was the reason behind it in the first place) - the individual posts on main screen now take up much more screen space. This allows to seamlessly insert fairly large ads masquaraded as posts, which wasn't possible with the old design.
- profmonocle 5y ago> the individual posts on main screen now take up much more screen space It's insulting how deliberate this is. I just tried using the redesign for ~5 minutes to see if it was as bad as I remembered, and the amount of dead space on my screen is striking. I have a normal 16:9 monitor and roughly 2/3rds of the front page is just totally blank, meanwhile you have post titles taking up 3-4 lines of the tiny column they're forced into.
- lelandfe 5y agoTwo more major points: image/video hosting (i.e. they own the data), and inline autoplaying video.