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I can't tell if it's incompetence or malice, but this happened after the redesign. I think it's caused by the presence of recent posts from the "more posts" sec

I can't tell if it's incompetence or malice, but this happened after the redesign. I think it's caused by the presence of recent posts from the "more posts" section. Another consequence of the redesign, much worse than useless dates, is that you get completely useless results just because the same "related post" (the title of which Google happens to deem "relevant") appears over and over again at the bottom of different pages. To get around this you can search for "site:old.reddit.com" or "site:i.reddit.com". One downside is you get fewer results.

hbn 4y ago
I dread the day reddit stops letting you opt out of the redesign. It's absolutely unusable and hasn't improved at all since launch.
- citrusybread 4y ago
  yet from their point of view it probably improved the product -- how many viewers get suckered into watching an endless stream of content mixed in with ads.
- ss108 4y ago
  Yeah, what is up with that? It is unquestionably trash, and they simply aren't doing anything about it. The fact that they have an opt out means they acknowledge that a substantial number of users hate it.
  - louky 4y ago
    Presumably plenty of people are fine with it and arewatching tons of ads and buying those absurd awards. I've been using old.Reddit and RiF app only forever, if that API goes so shall I.
  - boring_twenties 4y ago
    Their existing users might hate it, but the new users they want won't accept anything else.
- chalupa-man 4y ago
  Check out an alternate web client, like https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit. Even compared to the old design it's much more lightweight and clean, and compared to the redesign it makes 1/4 as many HTTP requests, uses 1/20th the CPU, 1/4 the memory, and 1/2 the bandwidth, doesn't require an account to subscribe to subs, can work as pure static HTML, and doesn't track anything. I have poor Internet and the difference is night and day.

hbn 4y ago

I dread the day reddit stops letting you opt out of the redesign. It's absolutely unusable and hasn't improved at all since launch.

citrusybread 4y ago
yet from their point of view it probably improved the product -- how many viewers get suckered into watching an endless stream of content mixed in with ads.
ss108 4y ago
Yeah, what is up with that? It is unquestionably trash, and they simply aren't doing anything about it. The fact that they have an opt out means they acknowledge that a substantial number of users hate it.
- louky 4y ago
  Presumably plenty of people are fine with it and arewatching tons of ads and buying those absurd awards. I've been using old.Reddit and RiF app only forever, if that API goes so shall I.
- boring_twenties 4y ago
  Their existing users might hate it, but the new users they want won't accept anything else.
chalupa-man 4y ago
Check out an alternate web client, like https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit. Even compared to the old design it's much more lightweight and clean, and compared to the redesign it makes 1/4 as many HTTP requests, uses 1/20th the CPU, 1/4 the memory, and 1/2 the bandwidth, doesn't require an account to subscribe to subs, can work as pure static HTML, and doesn't track anything. I have poor Internet and the difference is night and day.