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Comment by joemi | Hacker News Reader

I don't get it. What exactly is changing? From the screenshots from the reddit post about it, it looks.... like reddit. There's posts and the posts have upvote/downvote buttons, and there's a link to the comments that shows how many there are. Am I missing something? The OP article doesn't actually have any screenshots of changes, and I made it several paragraphs into the article still not understanding what is changing.

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You should be able to interact with the redesign directly at https://new.reddit.com. The main complaints I've seen leveled at the redesign are: user profiles becoming more like Facebook profiles, the new chat functionality missing core features, and the newly created "best" ranking becoming the default.

Not sure why, but that link just brings me to the normal homepage (as it's looked for years).

This confused me as well. See Izkata below your comment with a wired link to screenshots.

But I see the old reddit as well.

I wonder if you have to be logged in for that link to work? I'm at work right now and I never log in to reddit from here.

Nope.

I'm logged in and still getting redirected to the original.

Strange, yeah if I open it in an incognito window I'm shown the old reddit homepage. Maybe it only works for signed-in users?

"Best" has been the default comment ranking for years. I'm not surprised that it eventually worked its way into the front page posts.

How it differs from "Hot" though is not clear to me. Maybe they try harder to show you fresh posts.

A while ago they made subs that a large number of people had blocked show up on the front page less. The change came about because certain small vocal communities would boost content to the front page that the rest of reddit hated.

Best is the new default on the old UI too.

My main complaint is that I still don't see any way to do subscripts or mathematical expressions. Some subreddits recommend browser extensions that allow embedding some kind of TeX variant and render it, but that only helps if you use one of the browsers that has one of those extensions.

I just get regular reddit when I click that, did they turn it off?

Not sure what reddit post you're referring to, but the images on Wired make it look like Facebook, not Reddit: https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/

The reddit post I meant was this announcement from 10 or so days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/891stx/start...

Thanks for the Wired link. That actually shows it. Yeah, I agree it looks quite facebook-like.

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