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I don't get it. If I log out and go to reddit.com I see it he "Popular" view with a pretty good looking UI, 4.5 "cards" per screen height, I don't think that's

I don't get it. If I log out and go to reddit.com I see it he "Popular" view with a pretty good looking UI, 4.5 "cards" per screen height, I don't think that's what someone could mean by > it's shocking how terrible the site's UI is On the other hand old.reddit.com is just this super dense early 2000s kinda looking UI that I'd never use. Am I just in the minority here on what is considered good UI? Am I looking at the wrong thing?

dv_dt 3y ago
On Apollo, I have the UI configured to omit previews of images and videos, it’s also high density. It basically looks like HN.
- ezekg 3y ago
  That’s how my old.reddit.com looks too.
- fknorangesite 3y ago
  The new reddit UI has - and has always had - compact options. I often suspect that the old.reddit.com sticklers never bothered to check the preferences.
  - dv_dt 3y ago
    I tried the new Reddit and it’s compact options near the rollout and a couple of times after; it wasn’t satisfactory. One was one of many reasons to keep using old Reddit and third party clients.
wasyl 3y ago
This is what I see: https://i.imgur.com/ueQfJsc.png https://i.imgur.com/ueQfJsc.png. Huge cookies popup, I don't even see one full post immediately. When scrolling the feed I mostly see 2 posts, sometimes a bit of a third one. With old.reddit.com it's a compact list where you see a lot more content at once. Also I found reading comments in new UI to be terrible, they load maybe one comment from 2-3 levels down, and everything else requires you to click to load more: https://i.imgur.com/C6DXttC.png https://i.imgur.com/C6DXttC.png. And what are those posts on the right? I _just_ opened a post that I'm interested in, do I have to be shoved samples from completely irrelevant communities. Also, try opening a post on new Reddit and then go back (in history) — for me the previous page loads from scratch, all the way on the top. Old reddit behaves as expected. The list probably goes on, but I never spent more than 5 minutes I did now to find out all the issues. I'm pretty sure one of the issues Reddit has with 3rd party apps is that they let you browse Reddit with old.reddit philosophy — see lots of content, choose what you find interesting, and make it easy to dig into the discussion. As opposed to shoving the content in my face and pushing me to only read one top-upvoted comment on each level
- barbazoo 3y ago
  You're right, the comments being collapsed is annoying. The sidebars you can get rid of though iirc.
  - zouhair 3y ago
    And when you use RES[0] there are hundreds of other tweaks for the old.reddit.com that makes it a million time more easy to use. [0]: https://redditenhancementsuite.com/ https://redditenhancementsuite.com/
hcks 3y ago
It’s just a tiny minority of nerds complaining about how what they think is theirs has changed

dv_dt 3y ago

On Apollo, I have the UI configured to omit previews of images and videos, it’s also high density. It basically looks like HN.

ezekg 3y ago
That’s how my old.reddit.com looks too.
fknorangesite 3y ago
The new reddit UI has - and has always had - compact options. I often suspect that the old.reddit.com sticklers never bothered to check the preferences.
- dv_dt 3y ago
  I tried the new Reddit and it’s compact options near the rollout and a couple of times after; it wasn’t satisfactory. One was one of many reasons to keep using old Reddit and third party clients.

wasyl 3y ago

This is what I see: https://i.imgur.com/ueQfJsc.png https://i.imgur.com/ueQfJsc.png. Huge cookies popup, I don't even see one full post immediately. When scrolling the feed I mostly see 2 posts, sometimes a bit of a third one. With old.reddit.com it's a compact list where you see a lot more content at once. Also I found reading comments in new UI to be terrible, they load maybe one comment from 2-3 levels down, and everything else requires you to click to load more: https://i.imgur.com/C6DXttC.png https://i.imgur.com/C6DXttC.png. And what are those posts on the right? I _just_ opened a post that I'm interested in, do I have to be shoved samples from completely irrelevant communities. Also, try opening a post on new Reddit and then go back (in history) — for me the previous page loads from scratch, all the way on the top. Old reddit behaves as expected. The list probably goes on, but I never spent more than 5 minutes I did now to find out all the issues. I'm pretty sure one of the issues Reddit has with 3rd party apps is that they let you browse Reddit with old.reddit philosophy — see lots of content, choose what you find interesting, and make it easy to dig into the discussion. As opposed to shoving the content in my face and pushing me to only read one top-upvoted comment on each level

barbazoo 3y ago
You're right, the comments being collapsed is annoying. The sidebars you can get rid of though iirc.
- zouhair 3y ago
  And when you use RES[0] there are hundreds of other tweaks for the old.reddit.com that makes it a million time more easy to use. [0]: https://redditenhancementsuite.com/ https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

hcks 3y ago

It’s just a tiny minority of nerds complaining about how what they think is theirs has changed