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The title could be "everyone's redesign isn't going well", I am very glad news.ycombinator.com is staying with a tried and true design. How many here, when the

by jmclnx 4y ago

The title could be "everyone's redesign isn't going well", I am very glad news.ycombinator.com is staying with a tried and true design. How many here, when they go to reddit, use their new design ? IIRC slashdot tied one too but reverted. And need we mention dejanews --> google groups. If it works, stick with it.

altdataseller 4y ago
But how else can we justify the salaries of all these PMs and designers? /s
- tayo42 4y ago
  i feel like with programming, im making this up, but like 99% of the time if you pitch a rewrite you'll be shot down and its probably right. of that 1% of rewrites,.9 of them probably should have been shot down. do designers not do this or have this culture? "lets redo the design of everything", how does that not get shot down?
  - altdataseller 4y ago
    I guess it's because redesigning the UI is so much easier than rewriting the backend. There's not as many edge cases to test for, or that many dependencies.
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    Other than reddit, I think the vast majority of redesigns went well. How many people are still wanting their iOS 6 or old YouTube designs back? It’s a bit of a shock when it happens but eventually you just get used to it and realise the old one actually did look worse. Reddit is an exception. It looks fine, but it runs like shit.
danjac 4y ago
Thinking of the Reddit redesign: depends what you mean by "works". Does it work for end users? As long as too many don't leave or are replaced by new users who didn't know any better, who cares? If it encourages people to download an app instead of using a broken web UI, allowing for better data collection and monetization, then it "works" just fine.
- Mindwipe 4y ago
  That depends on if they're using Reddit's own app or a third party one.
jeffrallen 4y ago
> I am very glad news.ycombinator.com is staying with a tried and true Me too. But I'd also enjoy laughing at a comically bad "Show HN: I redesigned HN".
vultour 4y ago
Reddit doesn't care, the average age of their user has decreased significantly over the past few years, which coincidentally also means a large part of the user base has no idea what it looked like before the redesign. The new users are happy with the instagram-style, image-based, infinite scrolling design.
Rhedox 4y ago
I like the Reddit redesign from a design POV but holy shit this is one of the slowest websites I've ever used. Their shitty JS code slows to a crawl on my fucking AMD 5900X.

by jmclnx 4y ago

altdataseller 4y ago

But how else can we justify the salaries of all these PMs and designers? /s

tayo42 4y ago
i feel like with programming, im making this up, but like 99% of the time if you pitch a rewrite you'll be shot down and its probably right. of that 1% of rewrites,.9 of them probably should have been shot down. do designers not do this or have this culture? "lets redo the design of everything", how does that not get shot down?
- altdataseller 4y ago
  I guess it's because redesigning the UI is so much easier than rewriting the backend. There's not as many edge cases to test for, or that many dependencies.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Other than reddit, I think the vast majority of redesigns went well. How many people are still wanting their iOS 6 or old YouTube designs back? It’s a bit of a shock when it happens but eventually you just get used to it and realise the old one actually did look worse. Reddit is an exception. It looks fine, but it runs like shit.

danjac 4y ago

Thinking of the Reddit redesign: depends what you mean by "works". Does it work for end users? As long as too many don't leave or are replaced by new users who didn't know any better, who cares? If it encourages people to download an app instead of using a broken web UI, allowing for better data collection and monetization, then it "works" just fine.

Mindwipe 4y ago
That depends on if they're using Reddit's own app or a third party one.

jeffrallen 4y ago

> I am very glad news.ycombinator.com is staying with a tried and true Me too. But I'd also enjoy laughing at a comically bad "Show HN: I redesigned HN".

vultour 4y ago

Reddit doesn't care, the average age of their user has decreased significantly over the past few years, which coincidentally also means a large part of the user base has no idea what it looked like before the redesign. The new users are happy with the instagram-style, image-based, infinite scrolling design.

Rhedox 4y ago

I like the Reddit redesign from a design POV but holy shit this is one of the slowest websites I've ever used. Their shitty JS code slows to a crawl on my fucking AMD 5900X.