Notice there is only 1 full headline (from /r/NoStupidQuestions) visible, it doesn’t even show the full post. There are 3 of those “trending” boxes but only 2 of those even fit their headlines because they are like 3 words long, they cut off anything longer including the description
I originally became addicted to Reddit because of how streamlined it was to skim dozens of headlines and pick from lots of content, seems they have decided content is not something they want to provide anymore :/
Looks like one of those clickbait content websites that pop up on social media. I guess this is what you get when everything is aimed at ad revenue and short term profit. Next logical step, sell the thing to some corpo while is still relevant.
Once you are logged in the UI changes a lot for something way more usable.
Also old reddit is still around.
old.reddit.com still works for me
So many ads. It’s like every fourth post is actually an ad.
Yikes.
uBlock works on those
Legit thought you were on YouTube.
That’s not how limits work, good day.
dude thinks he disproves mathematics before checking his work
She’s dead. Move on, friend
first i thought i watching YouTube
Honestly, I think the UI looks okay. I dislike the trending boxes which makes my brain think they are ads.
it’s because they will be mixing in some ads there after a while.
If it was Fischer-Price, it would be colorful. This is just the sort of bland, generic website UI you see everywhere
Remember, people complained Windows XP was a Fisher-Price OS. I don’t think this redesign will affect Reddit long-term, unfortunately.
Honestly, I would take the look of Windows XP over the look of Windows 10/11 or current MacOS. Of course, I’m on Linux, so I actually can do that
Of course, I’m on Linux, so I actually can do that
On an unrelated note, meet my daily driver!
(Complete with sounds, boot screen and login screen.)
Looks great, but do the windows jiggle when you drag them? Mine do
I think Reddit doesn’t realize that what made their UI so appealing was precisely that it felt really functional and bare bones, like Craigslist still does or Google used to. As if it was designed by nerds who just wanted the most functional site. It makes it seem more trustworthy and neutral, less monetized.
This redesign looks painfully corporate.
I used RIF for the longest time and I just can’t with the official app. It’s already awful and if that’s what the website looks like now then the app will have a worse UI soon.
You guys are still using Reddit?
Also i need talklittle to either port rif or make it open source so we can port it ourselves ;-;
I check in on one specific community and feel sad that the users are still there. But one of them signed up here today so there is hope!
I was being a little cheeky, I get it. I have a personal feed of reddit posts that get pulled from the subs i miss without me needing to visit the site.
The migration will be slow, but hopefully steady! Honestly, the lack of content kinda sucks but its much higher quality and the discussions here are way more personal which is really nice.
Any tips how you pull stuff to read out of Reddit? RSS or something else?
I wrote a python script that uses the API (unauthenticated), it’s still in early stages right now but I intend to clean it up over the coming days and then publish it on GitHub – I’ll send you a link when i do :)
That would be great! Thanks!
We are no longer their target audience, they don’t care what made it appealing to us. They are trying to position themselves as being the same as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook.
I think when companies that originally offered something unique and desirable get large enough, they necessarily lose touch with what made them indispensable. Dollar signs lead to a notion of growth that summons a many-tentacled cocaine-caked Moloch of feature creep, tech bandwagon hopping, information siloing, data harvesting, advertiser worshiping, and corporate evil that is, at best, indifferent to user experience, but more typically actively antagonistic to it.
Well at least it’s better than the previous layout that squished everything into the center and had a ton of dead space on the sides.
It looks like YouTube now. But with text. lol
Precisely what it reminded me of, I think the way they should’ve gone is modernising the way they show dozens of post per scroll.
this is the (relatively) new sh.reddit.com ui (which is now the default for logged off users; it’s actually much lighter then new reddit and doesn’t use much js and barely has any tracking), logging in should grant you access to new.reddit.com; and of course good old old.reddit.com is always there (install RES; hit Shift+X to expand images)
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
How can you expect something like a social media website, so recently conceived, to persist in its present form so long? Everything changes so fast. Remember when televisions were these big boxes and there were only three channels?
Don’t insult Windows XP by comparing it to this trash.
Looks like Yahoo! in ca. 2002.
Lol I just posted another reply before reading this with basically the exact same thing.
So it’s true then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
