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Their metics on the redesign isn’t “like it vs. dislike it” it’s “actively hates it vs. hates it but not enough to care”

But at least they didn’t digg it and kill the site outright, and instead just started to see how much nagging and annoyance they can pull their faithful user base through before they break.

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They're obviously heading toward the moment when redesign will be the default interface without way to opt-out (which is already happening to some of the people who managed to trap themselves by this "dark mode" banner acc. to r/redesign comments) and I assume neither old domain will be working at some point and removal will be explained by some ridiculous statement that it's inefficient to keep 2 interfaces, users are happily adapted to use new style (having no other choice) or something similar.

Metrics are "will this push more users to use the mobile app/give us more ad impressions vs ???"

I don't know about that. I didn't really start using Reddit until 3 years ago, and even though I loved the content I could not stand the old school design. I hated it so much that I ended up with multiple extensions and scripts overlayed on top of it to make it bearable for me.

Their new design is a vast improvement, but in my opinion they didn't go far enough and missed the mark on improving the backend capabilities. Why can't I easily apply arbitrary sort and filters to subreddit content? Why is the messaging system unreliable and lack basic organization capabilities?

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