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Tell HN: Reddit just made their website even more unusable

12 points by c7DJTLrn 4y ago

Not sure if I'm part of an A/B test right now, but I'm seeing a new design which is absolutely crap. Subreddits still have the "old new" design but instead of seeing a modal when I click a post, it navigates to another page and completely changes design. Colours, padding, even the font looks different. I cannot believe how bad it is. It's like Windows at this point. What is going on over there that prevents them from building a decent interface?

PaulHoule 4y ago
they want you to get disoriented, click mindlessly, hit an ad, ka-ching!
JohnFen 4y ago
Does old.reddit.com not work anymore?
- glaucon 4y ago
  Yep, hanging on in there, thank gawd.
  - chatmasta 4y ago
    I read somewhere that most moderators use that version, so hopefully that's sufficient reason for Reddit to not disable it.
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slater 4y ago
Subreddits can have their own themes/styling, for better or worse. You can change it in: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ "allow subreddits to show me custom themes"
rzzzwilson 4y ago
It's worse than that. Try accessing these three URLs. They all render differently. The "old" site is expected to render differently, but why are the "www" and "new" sites vastly different? And it's not just the "look and feel", the content is also different?? https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://old.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://old.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://new.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://new.reddit.com/r/popular/
- glaucon 4y ago
  For me, at Tue Apr 11 03:07:12 2023 UTC, 'www' and 'old' are both looking like I would expect 'old' to look like, that's got to be temporary ? The 'new' looks a bit better than 'www' did when I last saw it so a bit of a win there.
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- warrenm 4y ago
  for me just now ... 'www' and 'new' are apparently identical ad neither seems notably different from how it's looked for years
gardenhedge 4y ago
Noticed that today. I see to be getting different layouts depending on if I'm clicking a search result or just browsing
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sen 4y ago
They also recently killed the i.reddit.com and /.compact mobile layouts, meaning there's no mobile web layout available other than the "new" one which is practically unusable if you're not logged in (I browse reddit occasionally for news, but don't have an account).
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zufallsheld 4y ago
Libreddit (https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit) is a great, free and fast alternative frontend to reddit that you can self host. It's got none of the problems all the different official front ends have.
cloudking 4y ago
That's why you replace reddit.com URLs with https://teddit.net https://teddit.net

12 points by c7DJTLrn 4y ago

PaulHoule 4y ago

they want you to get disoriented, click mindlessly, hit an ad, ka-ching!

JohnFen 4y ago

Does old.reddit.com not work anymore?

glaucon 4y ago
Yep, hanging on in there, thank gawd.
- chatmasta 4y ago
  I read somewhere that most moderators use that version, so hopefully that's sufficient reason for Reddit to not disable it.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]

slater 4y ago

Subreddits can have their own themes/styling, for better or worse. You can change it in: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ "allow subreddits to show me custom themes"

rzzzwilson 4y ago

It's worse than that. Try accessing these three URLs. They all render differently. The "old" site is expected to render differently, but why are the "www" and "new" sites vastly different? And it's not just the "look and feel", the content is also different?? https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://old.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://old.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://new.reddit.com/r/popular/ https://new.reddit.com/r/popular/

glaucon 4y ago
For me, at Tue Apr 11 03:07:12 2023 UTC, 'www' and 'old' are both looking like I would expect 'old' to look like, that's got to be temporary ? The 'new' looks a bit better than 'www' did when I last saw it so a bit of a win there.
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warrenm 4y ago
for me just now ... 'www' and 'new' are apparently identical ad neither seems notably different from how it's looked for years

gardenhedge 4y ago

Noticed that today. I see to be getting different layouts depending on if I'm clicking a search result or just browsing

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sen 4y ago

They also recently killed the i.reddit.com and /.compact mobile layouts, meaning there's no mobile web layout available other than the "new" one which is practically unusable if you're not logged in (I browse reddit occasionally for news, but don't have an account).

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zufallsheld 4y ago

Libreddit (https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit) is a great, free and fast alternative frontend to reddit that you can self host. It's got none of the problems all the different official front ends have.

cloudking 4y ago

That's why you replace reddit.com URLs with https://teddit.net https://teddit.net