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The problem with the Reddit redesign has nothing to do with missing features or capabilities. Even on an insanely powerful computer with a gigabit fiber optic c
by coder543 4y ago
The problem with the Reddit redesign has nothing to do with missing features or capabilities. Even on an insanely powerful computer with a gigabit fiber optic connection, it is unbelievably slow compared to the old one. It also implements a bunch of antipatterns like "view more comments" and relentless prompts to switch to their mobile app.
I also can't remember a single actual improvement that "New Reddit" has received in the years since it launched. "Unfamiliar" is not the problem there. We've had "New Reddit" for years and it is still confusingly bad.
- outsidetheparty 4y agoFair enough, based on this and sibling comments, Reddit was a poor example for me to have chosen. I didn't start using that site until after the redesign, and am not a heavy user now -- possibly I was misinformed, but I had the impression that the "new" design was launched with a lot missing and took a while to get back to feature parity. Personally for aesthetics and usability I greatly prefer the new design -- the old one looks unreadably cramped to me --but the one test I was able to run before they throttled me as a suspected bot showed the new design weighing about nine times as many kb as the old for a given page. That's objectively not good.
- jesprenj 4y agoYou can still use old reddit versions: http://old.reddit.com http://old.reddit.com. http://old.reddit.com./.compact http://old.reddit.com./.compact
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- waterhouse 4y agoAlso, you can use the Redirector extension (as exhibited in the article) to match any Reddit URLs and redirect you to the old.reddit.com version. I do this.