Reddit redesign is getting forced onto users without an opt-out option
Reddit redesign is getting forced onto users without an opt-out option
Happened to me a few days ago, and I just can't believe how bad this redesign is!!
It's hard to comprehend what goes into the heads of that dev team, but they basically ruined everything nice about the platform. The API changes were pretty much a fatal shot already, but this new redesign seems to be what tipped the scales for me, and hopefully many more.
It's a great time to switch to Lemmy, and I think I'm going to make the effort to stick around and abandon the habit of opening reddit multiple times per day.
Do you think forcing this re-design will bring more people here? I'm hoping for that. Reddit betrayed us and I can't find it me to keep forgiving them for every horrible, anti-user decision.
I noticed in some moderator subreddit, that it is planned to kill new.reddit.com as well. Old will likely stay for longer, but new is what I got used to, and if they take it down I won't bother getting used to the newer, garbage UX.
As an ex-redditor, my only reaction is
The redesign was garbage ux from the start and they ignored absolutely all feedback for years. It was fundamentally flawed from the very beginning and they buried their heads in the sand because they knew most people would still use it.
Most people seemed to use the official app anyway, which is even worse, so I don't see many people changing over this. I was one of the people who said when old Reddit was gone so was I, I just didn't expect them to do something worse before that time came.
The redesign would be bad if considerably improved. Because as it is now, it's simply awful.
Things that they did not get:
- People might not like a crammed interface, but they certainly don't like to unnecessarily roll stuff.
- Desktops typically have a horizontal screen. Vertical space is at premium, but horizontal space is cheap. That leads to "stripes" of content, not to square blocks.
- "Muh consisrency! Mobile n desktop inrurrfaces must look teh same!" leads to either a shitty mobile interface, a shitty desktop interface, or both. Never neither.
- If you can guess that a user is using a desktop interface (YES YOU CAN, you spam the shit out of the users if they dare to use the mobile interface), then you can also guess that desktop users won't "download your appz XD".
- Everything else.
Reddit is a dogshow but Lenny has issues too.
Maybe it’s my instance or some other config but when I open lennmy it’s just wall to wall communist/anti capitalist, open source wanking and musk hate.
Look, people, musk is a cunt, capitalism is ruining not only the planet but yes also the hearts and minds of people and proprietary software probably should be a little less pervasive than what it is but can we, just for one fucking nano second discuss literally anythingbg else?
In my experience (and again perhaps just with whatever I’ve been able to set up) lemmy is tiresome, parochial and very much a one-dimensional experience.
Can any of us remember when Reddit was actually fun? A little of the silliness that made it endearing? Dumb stories about Kevin, incessant nonsense about bacon, when AMA was a fucking legendary little nook of the internet? Surely some of those are the things this community would want to foster, a little light heartedness? Look at the popularity of the Trekkie stuff, nothing to learn there?
It’s cool though, I don’t have to come here and this has all helped me realise that. I’m literally only on here typing this because I’m taking a dump rn.
Any time Reddit makes a stumble is likely to generate at least a small exodus looking for alternatives. This is an example of such a moment.
In order to keep those users on Lemmy it needs to have activity. A community with no posts or only ancient posts is not attractive. Yes, Lemmy has politics and memes, but it needs more activity in other types of communities. People say as much constantly and it is obvious.
If you want Lemmy to thrive then I highly suggest you post in communities relevant to your interests.
The Old Reddit Redirect addon for Firefox still works.
The day that breaks, is the day when I finally come to the realization that I will have to find someplace else for niche content that isn't available here. I'm not so sure that such a website exists. Reddit killed off all the competition.
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Wow what a horrible day to have eyes
They redesigned the site again? old.reddit.com was literally the only usable design. No avatars, no ridiculous amounts of padding, no broken search results, no forced sign-in for NSFW-marked content.
Many won't leave no matter what happens.
Some have left already.
Everyone else is somewhere in-between.
What was keeping you there?
I actually like the new new Reddit more than the new Reddit that preceded it. Maybe an unpopular opinion. Although I haven't had time to use it that much yet.
The first week or two of ditching the habit of opening reddit is the hardest, but speaking from experience, it gets easier with time.
I kind of like it more than the current new redesign. It seems to make better use of horizontal space, it doesn't leave black bars. However, I haven't tried it on 16:9 screen, but a 20:9.
What I don't like is lack of Markdown editor. That new(2) editor is even wose than FancyPants editor of new(1). There's just three options: GIF (works), Image (worked after spamming it like 100 times) and "T" which is probably for text editing (doesn't work at all).Anyway, am I the only or does it feel like X?
Disclaimer: I haven't tried using it, I just checked it for 3 minutes now.
whaat? They changed like nothing at all. Where is the redesign? The current UI is garbage, but the new one is equally as bad
Welcome and please stay on Lemmy. It’s what reddit used to be and only improves every month the more people come here.
Who cares. I'm over here now.
Just checked for you lazy bastards.
Old.reddit.com still working (for me anyways)
So is old reddit dead? Like old.reddit.com?
Unless a larger portion of the userbase migrates, Reddit will get to do what they want to. Unfortunately the landed gentry/toxic mods are going to do what they can to keep them there too, including modding out any info posts about alternatives.
Yeah sh.reddit.com is a good name for the new new design. I couldn't fucking believe how bad it is and now opt out! There is an reddit-redirect browser addon to redirect to new.reddit. Reddit-enhancer is also working on improving the new "tik-tokified" UI. My guess we'll see more expansive and transformative browser addons instead of clients.
I saw the writing on the wall over the summer of 2023. Reddit won't die, nothing will. I had tinkered with mastodon before but that realisation above is really what pushed me to migrate everything I use to the fediverse. Most people are too stubborn to give up the very things that keep abusing them because they are already established, instead of putting in the effort of engaging with something new. Even yesterday a friend of mine was nonstop complaining about twitter and when I mentioned bluesky and mastodon "oh it's okay, X is more popular so I'm just gonna stay on it". I have Lemmy and bluesky for now. I have ecosia for my search and waterfox for my browser. the only thing it's really hard to get rid of is YouTube, even invidious is just a front-end for it. kinda got off topic but the point is, Reddit hasn't lost momentum. nothing has or will for a long while. bad changes will keep enshittifying everything.
I like the redesign
It's awful. I actually didn't mind new Reddit. But they switched my account to new new Reddit and I changed my bookmarks to go to old Reddit. I'll try to stay for as long as there are good discussions but this cursed design is bursting with "know-nothing middle manager" energy.
I would not care, if the new UI wasn't that buggy and laggy.
I wish they would just understand that all they need is a simple lightweight layout with ways to sort post and threads.
No "more" buttons and no fancy scripts. Just load the page and maybe have people make some comments without reloading the page, but that's it. We need less internet traffic and less resource usage. I should be able to visit a forum board like reddit with the same pentium 1 pc I used to visit invision forums on dialup back in the day.
Is that what caused the sidebar to disappear, then. I spent hours optimizing it
Even old.reddit.com is broken now, where clicking links takes you to the ugly-ass new reddit design instead of just opening up the post so you see the full image/link with the comments.
Agree even reddit is killing the new.reddit.com ui
