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As a proud member of the LGTV community (yes I'm making 2 of those kinds of jokes back to back, fight me), and an occasional reddit user, I'm both horrified by
by Neywiny 11mo ago
As a proud member of the LGTV community (yes I'm making 2 of those kinds of jokes back to back, fight me), and an occasional reddit user, I'm both horrified by the notion of getting this update and thrilled people are still using old.reddit.com. The new layout, which isn't even new anymore, still falls very short for it I'm looking something up and it's buried in a comment thread where ctrl-f can't find it.
- bdhcuidbebe 11mo agoProtip: https://farside.link/redlib/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1plldqo/my_lg_tvs_new_software_update_installed_microsoft/ https://farside.link/redlib/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1pl...
- dmsayer 11mo ago502 error
- stevesimmons 11mo agoAm I going mad or do some of those old.reddit comments slope downhill?
- GaryBluto 11mo agor/mildlyinfuriating seems to have a custom stylesheet that is deliberately mildly infuriating.
- traverseda 11mo agoNo, the subreddit has applied custom css to do that. It's the mildly infuriating subreddit. There's also an image of a hair visible on widescreen monitors, to make you think there's a hair on your display.
- christophilus 11mo agoI see the hair on my iPhone. That’s a nice touch.
- pmontra 11mo agoThe next step will be adding a web in a corner, to make us think we cracked our touchscreen /s
- lagniappe 11mo agotry eddrit.com
- sseagull 11mo agoI went there and saw two hairs, and yeah thought it was a nice funny touch. I then went back to HN and turns out one of the hairs was real and I needed to clean my laptop screen :)
- molticrystal 11mo agoThey have a bag of dirty tricks [0], here are a few highlights including a couple already mentioned: /* Dead subpixel (Thanks M) */ .content[role=main]:before { content: ""; position: fixed; top: 126px; left: 242px; width: 1px; height: 1px; background: #f0f; z-index: 9999; } /* Hair */ .content[role=main]:after { content: ""; position: fixed; top: 150px; right: 150px; width: 140px; height: 200px; border-radius: 50%; box-shadow: 2px 0 rgb(60, 24, 24, 0.3); transform: skewX(-30deg) scale(0.6); pointer-events: none; z-index: 9999; } .thing.comment[id*=c] { transform: rotate(1deg); margin-top: 30px !important; } .comment p a{ font-family:Comic Sans MS, Impact,serif; } [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/wiki/config/stylesheet https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/wiki/config/style...
- Tyr42 11mo agoI see it too. What the heck?
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- bromuro 11mo agoI have poor eyesight and I don’t support this practice of linking old reddit on HN. Old website is unusable for me. I have to load the link in the native app to read it. ctrl+F doesn’t work anyway as the comments are also buried in a “load more comments” on old reddit too. New website and app have a search comments field.
- Neywiny 11mo agoWhile true some are hidden, old shows a *lot* more and most of my searches for obscure issues don't yield more viral posts
- Gualdrapo 11mo agoI agree. I joined reddit when the "new" design was launched - I could never made sense of the old design. Way too cluttered and unreadable.
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- pier25 11mo agoI wonder how you're using HN then
- rationalist 11mo ago> Old website is unusable for me. New website is unusable for me.
- shayway 11mo agoAssuming the issue with old reddit is font & element size, does zooming in with Ctrl+ not solve the problem?
- gcr 11mo agoI have shitty eyesight and old is the only version that’s usable to me because text zooming works far better in the old layout. Are you using a screen reader by any chance?
- caxco93 11mo agoactually, when you share a reddit link, HN automatically converts it to old.reddit
- rcarmo 11mo agoAnd yet we cannot have dark mode, which would be a simple CSS tweak. But I’m thankful for the other little things.
- 3RTB297 11mo agoI only use old.reddit.com when I am forced to sulk back over there and actually log in. To just look around I just use some redlib frontend. The numerous layers of attempted monetization schemes since 2016ish hilariously touted as "features" are sort of band-aided on top of each other on new reddit in a way that makes it the worst possible way to display the information. It's like a terrible UI challenge.
- jwr 11mo agoThe management of reddit doesn't seem to use reddit at all and they seem to be unaware of the fact that a) the "new" layout just isn't that great, and b) their mobile app is terrible. They killed third-party apps, which were way better than their garbage app and they don't seem to realize how much it annoys their users.
- kstrauser 11mo agoI thank them for that, because forcing me back to their horrid app broke me of my habit of hanging out there. I’ve got six digits of karma, and I’d rather walk away than suffer through its awful UI.
- juliusceasar 11mo agoAs a none user; what is a karma? Fantasy points?
- xingped 11mo agoSame. Only thing that ever managed to break me of my reddit habit. No 3rd party apps? Reddit may as well no longer exist as far as I'm concerned.
- midnitewarrior 11mo agoWelcome back to reddit! There is a third party app called Red Reader, it's free. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/
- joecool1029 11mo ago> thrilled people are still using old.reddit.com I noticed a day or two ago they quietly turned on the 'show new reddit as default' preference option, it was still possible to change default back but they won't stop pushing it.
- Klonoar 11mo agoThis happens every few months. You should just use a browser extension to do it since those don’t rely on an auth state anyway.
- rsynnott 11mo agoI don’t understand how anyone in Reddit thinks that new layout is better. If old.reddit ever goes away I’ll probably stop using it entirely.