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Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook.

Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.

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Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way - if they ever force me to use only the new site, then I'll leave reddit for good. Or maybe just use it on my phone (Apollo for Reddit is pretty good)

Forget the settings, just use http://old.reddit.com always :)

I stopped criticizing redesigns because i usually get over it, but the Reddit one makes the site at least 8x slower for me.

That’s been my complaint. The old server side rendered site was really fast to load. Ever since the first redesign a few years back it’s been really slow.

Here’s half the page you requested, and some other ‘related’ crap.

Same here. I doN't share msot people's outrage when it coems to redesigns, but this one only seems to have downsides.

Imagine redesigning Reddit with simple HTML, CSS and only the most necessary sprinkles of JavaScript. In my opinion it's clearly a document-based website that doesn't need to pretend being a one-page-app.

Serious question: What makes it completely awful? Do you have ideas that might make it a better experience, besides "just use the old UI"?

Everything. Literally everything. It uses a WYSIWYG input which completely breaks old.reddit formatting inputs, it constantly causes confusion as to what comment you are replying to so you get people replying to the wrong person or replying to the main post, it looks cartoony and blatantly obvious you're on a social website if you're trying to reddit on the sly, It doesn't like browser windows that aren't open full screen if you're trying to reddit on the sly, it severely restricts how much information you can have in the sidebar, etc.

If you think that's bad, try using the browser version on mobile... It's full of annoying pop-ups to try to encourage you to use their crappy mobile app. (sadface) :(

I love the redesign. I used to spend way to much time on Reddit, the redesign fixed that.

Haha I love that. Maybe I should turn on the redesign.

I a lot of people use third party mobile apps because the official one is subpar. They should just acqui-hire Apollo for iOS at least.

Given what happened after they acqui-hired Alien Blue, I'd say no they shouldn't.

Good point, I'd forgotten about that.

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