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 :/

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[–] 216 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Wow that's pretty horrible.

It's amazing what you miss due to 10 years of browsing with RIF and RES as mandatory installs

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    The day that digg launched that new design was the last day I ever logged into that site. Why do people fuck up things that work?

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Things that work aren't profitable (enough). A thing that works is good for expanding customer base. A thing that almost works is good for profit per customer base. The thing is... A thing that works and is sustainable to maintain provides the most long term profits. There's no legal requirement a company grow in scope, but most investors (both in small and large companies) see that as the only way. Reddit has been operating on an unsustainable business model. Their core feature set is simple. Their userbase was loyal, and willing to pay for Reddit gold to directly keep the website running. The holes in their sustainability were a huge staff to develop features to grow their customer base despite no one wanting or asking for those features, a terrible ad model that left money on the table by not putting ads where they'd have the most effect (why did I always get Ford ads on r/FuckCars, never Taco Bell ads on r/ShittyFoodPorn, no small online stationary shops on r/FountainPens?) and not returning ads in API calls, and finally an API model that went from free to impossible to justify overnight. But no one on the board of directors is interested in a business that consistently makes money over the long term. They want to make as much money as possible all in one go.

    Let me ask you this. Which is better? To run a small coffee roaster that employs 8 people and serves coffee through one physical shop and one online store front to a loyal fan base by serving a high quality product in small batches, or to be massive coffee company, shadowed in scale only by Starbucks and Peets, but going into bankruptcy because you can't keep up with Starbucks and Peets? I'd take the consistent sustainable business every time, but too many people want to be the big winner with the bankrupt company, and the result is the small investors, the ones who bought into the big coffee company, or Reddit, end up holding the bag while the people who took their money deploy their golden parachutes

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Designers want to get promoted, or get good bonuses for having impact. Product Managers are similarly incentivized to make changes, to improve some metric that they believe helps their business. If these structures exist, and the people making changes don't understand what the users want, or their incentives are misaligned... it's inevitable

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    [–] 152 points 3 years ago (34 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (22 children)

    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.

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    [–] 116 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    At first glance I thought it was youtube.

    Is the old.reddit.com still usable or is that fucked up too?

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  • [–] 66 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    old.reddit.com is still kickin it. No talk I've heard of to get rid of it yet. The second it's gone I'm gone.

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  • [–] 94 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    In case you didn't know and for everyone else that prefers the old UI there is a clone for lemmy.

    https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

    lemmy.world has it installed at https://old.lemmy.world. The creator has it running at https://mlmym.org/ for other instances that don't have it installed.

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    [–] 91 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Bro what in the msn.com is this

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    [–] 75 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    If it was Fischer-Price, it would be colorful. This is just the sort of bland, generic website UI you see everywhere

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    [–] 64 points 3 years ago

    She's dead. Move on, friend

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  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (9 children)

    The fact that crypto is listed on the side makes me wanna bump my head on the wall.

    The whole thing in general looks like a mobile app stretched to fit on a monitor. I mean, that's how most websites are in 2023.

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    That's not a mobile first principal. Mobile first design and development includes progressive enhancement as the viewport grows. You can make a website that operates perfectly on mobile and desktop. These fucks just don't actually adhere to any philosophies or standards. Don't blame mobile first, which is a brilliant approach, for the shortcomings of a dumb-ass company like Reddit.

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    [–] 57 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hard to build a good looking website with just 2000 employees

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    [–] 57 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Legit thought you were on YouTube.

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    [–] 54 points 3 years ago

    Looks like they copied youtubes front page.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I absolutely thought this was YouTube.

    Wtf.

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    [–] 46 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    So stop using it. Ffs, this place circle jerks over how bad that place is, and then you dumb mother fuckers keep going back. Move on already.

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    [–] 40 points 3 years ago

    that looks like youtube. is that how non old.reddit looks like?

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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    [–] 35 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    LOL. They went full Digg. I abandoned Digg for Reddit, and now Reddit for Lemmy.

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    [–] 33 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    it’s facebook….

    You don’t show full posts because then your team gets to count an ‘active’ user when people click to expand.

    Metrics becoming the goal 101 and active user growth is important to get investors to hold the bag for your VCs. Every action right now, that the VC money is getting scarce is aimed at making Reddit look like a profitable target for street investors so your VCs can cash out. Doesn’t matter if what you do isn’t sustainable, because you are the VCs bitch now and they want their payout before you crash and burn.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago

    JFC that’s hilariously hideous. Well done spez you fucking wank stain

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Remember when they hid NSFW content from r/all and they said they would add a new filter that did contain the content?

    Now you can't even select r/all from the drop down menu on their app. You have to open the sidebar, scroll all the way to the bottom, then select it. No way of setting it as the default. Classic algorithm push for advertisers.

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    [–] 30 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    they are becoming Digg 3.0

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    [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Alright which reddit dev just found out about inspect elements? Dude straight up went to youtube, pressed F12 and started copy pasting lol.

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    [–] 28 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The stupidity of the post is so attractive though. Perfect nerd click bait.

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    What the ever-living fuck is this bullshit? I'm glad I abandoned Reddit before they started this bullshit.

    At least Old Reddit is still available. Right? I think? But for how long?

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I think the UI looks okay. I dislike the trending boxes which makes my brain think they are ads.

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    [–] 25 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    They’re turning it into a magazine - wonder when they’ll add personalisation algo

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    [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Fuck Reddit and all, but old.reddit.com if you MUST go there.

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    [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why does this image remind me of Quora?

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I read this as "As a 14 year old user" and thought that was an impressive Fisher Price reference for a 14 year old lol

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    I legit thought this was a parody.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    On my machine it doesn’t even take up the whole window. The left column is pushed out to the right, giving less space for actual content. Do they have UX engineers? This is very bad, especially when you can go to the old site and get a ton more info on one page instantly.

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Reddit has been Digging themselves a grave and it's both hilarious and tragic. How fucking stupid of a user generated content farm to shoot themselves in the foot and actively antagonize the people that made the site relevant. Top tier dipshittery.

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