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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I like the redesign

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I would not care, if the new UI wasn't that buggy and laggy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Agree even reddit is killing the new.reddit.com ui

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Is that what caused the sidebar to disappear, then. I spent hours optimizing it

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