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I still think Reddit looks awful; it's the Craigslist of social news. The blue links filling a white page looks like 1995 to me. The original Digg at least look
by WiseWeasel 14y ago
I still think Reddit looks awful; it's the Craigslist of social news. The blue links filling a white page looks like 1995 to me. The original Digg at least looked somewhat clean and organized, with a sensible use of colors and lines to demarcate content. Hacker News is worlds above both, with stylishly simple design and colors that are easy on the eyes.
- wyck 14y agoYou realize that the users themselves control the look of the subs right? For example: http://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus/ http://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus/ , http://www.reddit.com/r/apple http://www.reddit.com/r/apple , http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo http://www.reddit.com/r/diablo, etc x 1 million. And power users use http://redditenhancementsuite.com/ http://redditenhancementsuite.com/ suite, and http://userstyles.org/styles/browse/reddit http://userstyles.org/styles/browse/reddit But at the end up the day it's about reading and not decoration, changing the UI would be a disaster of Digg proportions.
- WiseWeasel 14y agoThat's a terrible solution; while they're clever, and some are even nice, the inconsistency in interface for different subreddits is jarring, and the vast majority of users will not customize their interface at all. Pick a nice default interface, standardize it across the board, and maybe then let users pick a clever fun one that might be actually pretty good if they want. Having completely different interface widgets and navigation by default on different sections of the same site is probably a bad idea.
- krsunny 14y agoSeems to work for stack exchange sites.