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The newest Reddit - not the React version, but the Lit version that's replacing it - uses very, very modern HTML and JavaScript. I'd love to see Servo get to th

The newest Reddit - not the React version, but the Lit version that's replacing it - uses very, very modern HTML and JavaScript. I'd love to see Servo get to the point of rendering it correctly!

satvikpendem 2y ago
How many times are they going to rewrite the site? And how can you see the Lit versus React version, is there another link for it?
- StrauXX 2y ago
  There is old.reddit.com, reddit.com and new.reddit.com. new.reddit.com is not the same site as reddit.com!
  - CryZe 2y ago
    new.reddit.com seems to be an older layout than just reddit.com for me, one where most stuff still works (like video embeds).
    - timeon 2y ago
      At least it is faster and seems to be less bug-y.
  - culi 2y ago
    TIL. new.reddit seems to be a return to old.reddit in a lot of ways. It also seems really really fast unlike the current www.reddit. If they remove some annoying ads I might even be convinced to stop using old.
    - bee_rider 2y ago
      The only downside is that new is still being developed. Old is nice because it is shielded from their post-success incompetence. Whatever bad ideas they decide to implement will hit new first.
    - oblio 2y ago
      new.reddit seems almost... sane. Like they kicked out whoever pushed/implemented reddit aka the current version and figured out that old.reddit had a lot of virtues.
  - jccalhoun 2y ago
    It is so crazy. I normally use "reddit.com" but a few weeks ago i followed a link to an article on "old.reddit.com" and saw I had notifications. I clicked the item and it was all notifications from days ago. So the read status of notifications on old reddit and current reddit aren't linked?
    - Izkata 2y ago
      They are, but you don't always see all of them on the current reddit. Never figured out the pattern.
  - account42 2y ago
    Why do you see a difference? new. just redirects to www. for me.
- spankalee 2y ago
  Most pages, logged-in and logged-out, seem to be using the Lit version for me. I don't think it contained many visual changes, so you have to look for the presence of web components.
hypeatei 2y ago
Pretty amazing how a company can overengineer a basic feed that displays images and text (and ads). New Reddit is a dumpster fire, can't imagine another rewrite is going to fix it.
- BoredPositron 2y ago
  Yeah, I’ve never thought anyone could build a video player worse than realplayer but they achieved the impossible.
- throwaway894345 2y ago
  Yeah, one of the weirder things is that if someone blocks you, you are not allowed to reply to any comment in the thread (for example, if someone posts a toplevel comment and doesn’t reply to anything, and you reply to some comment a dozen layers below and have an exchange with some third party, if the toplevel commenter blocks you, you can’t reply to anything including comments left by others in response to your own comment) and you get a generic “internal server error”-type pop up with no information about why the request failed. This is most likely a server “feature” and thus a rewrite of the frontend won’t fix it but it seems like at very least the frontend could display a sane error message (assuming the backend forwards some information about the cause of the error).

The newest Reddit - not the React version, but the Lit version that's replacing it - uses very, very modern HTML and JavaScript. I'd love to see Servo get to the point of rendering it correctly!

satvikpendem 2y ago

How many times are they going to rewrite the site? And how can you see the Lit versus React version, is there another link for it?

StrauXX 2y ago
There is old.reddit.com, reddit.com and new.reddit.com. new.reddit.com is not the same site as reddit.com!
- CryZe 2y ago
  new.reddit.com seems to be an older layout than just reddit.com for me, one where most stuff still works (like video embeds).
  - timeon 2y ago
    At least it is faster and seems to be less bug-y.
- culi 2y ago
  TIL. new.reddit seems to be a return to old.reddit in a lot of ways. It also seems really really fast unlike the current www.reddit. If they remove some annoying ads I might even be convinced to stop using old.
  - bee_rider 2y ago
    The only downside is that new is still being developed. Old is nice because it is shielded from their post-success incompetence. Whatever bad ideas they decide to implement will hit new first.
  - oblio 2y ago
    new.reddit seems almost... sane. Like they kicked out whoever pushed/implemented reddit aka the current version and figured out that old.reddit had a lot of virtues.
- jccalhoun 2y ago
  It is so crazy. I normally use "reddit.com" but a few weeks ago i followed a link to an article on "old.reddit.com" and saw I had notifications. I clicked the item and it was all notifications from days ago. So the read status of notifications on old reddit and current reddit aren't linked?
  - Izkata 2y ago
    They are, but you don't always see all of them on the current reddit. Never figured out the pattern.
- account42 2y ago
  Why do you see a difference? new. just redirects to www. for me.
spankalee 2y ago
Most pages, logged-in and logged-out, seem to be using the Lit version for me. I don't think it contained many visual changes, so you have to look for the presence of web components.

hypeatei 2y ago

Pretty amazing how a company can overengineer a basic feed that displays images and text (and ads). New Reddit is a dumpster fire, can't imagine another rewrite is going to fix it.

BoredPositron 2y ago
Yeah, I’ve never thought anyone could build a video player worse than realplayer but they achieved the impossible.
throwaway894345 2y ago
Yeah, one of the weirder things is that if someone blocks you, you are not allowed to reply to any comment in the thread (for example, if someone posts a toplevel comment and doesn’t reply to anything, and you reply to some comment a dozen layers below and have an exchange with some third party, if the toplevel commenter blocks you, you can’t reply to anything including comments left by others in response to your own comment) and you get a generic “internal server error”-type pop up with no information about why the request failed. This is most likely a server “feature” and thus a rewrite of the frontend won’t fix it but it seems like at very least the frontend could display a sane error message (assuming the backend forwards some information about the cause of the error).