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submitted 9 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/reddit@lemmy.world

https://old.reddit.com/r/help/

I got the new reddit UI - I think it's horrible. How can I get back to the "middle UI"?

if Reddit cannot find anything for the website designers to do maybe they should just fire them rather than have them invent new ways to circumvent the geneva convention article 33.

Another post about awful redesign, and wondering how to prevent this spreading to my app?

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[-] Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 97 points 9 months ago

Silly geese - the redesign isn’t for the users, it’s for the investors, for the upcoming IPO. It’s like staging a house for sale. The point isn’t to make the house livable, it’s to make it desirable to buyers.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 68 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I dunno, I think the redesign is a significant improvement:

https://i.imgur.com/G1hINqY.png

Far less annoying than the old design.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 29 points 9 months ago
[-] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 9 months ago

It's a joke.

Like the blocked notice looks nicer than reddit.

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

The exact attitude you get from Reddit power mods though it's missing a few insults

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Incredibly annoying and passive aggressive, yet somehow still less annoying than actual reddit.

[-] PlexSheep@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

Really like how they organized everything in blocks neatly. No crap, only the text the authors want to tell us.

[-] s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I bet old.reddit is gonna be axed fairly soon. All signs point that way.

  • Killing the free API access and thereby putting most 3rd party apps out of commission
  • The expensive rebrand from pentagram
  • Reddit all but officially announcing they're going for the IPO finally (plans leaked to the press)
  • Unpopular redesign of the new reddit layout which I assume will push a group of folks back to old.reddit
  • ...

Also wouldn't surprise me if RES is killed off in the not too distant future.

Edit: wow that new redesign they just pushed is indeed pretty bad

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 35 points 9 months ago

I was discussing with a mod in comments today, apparently they got "guarantees that old.reddit would stay"

Didn't want to ask if those were the same guarantees than for the 3rd party apps, but I agree with you indeed.

[-] s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago

Yeah big grain of salt with that promise.

One thing that stands out to me about old.reddit is that it allows you to browse NSFW subs without being signed in. I feel like that absolutely will not jive with their IPO, so something there is gonna change one way or another. Could be as simple as no longer allowing any non logged in users from browsing NSFW or more drastic like killing NSFW altogether or killing old.reddit.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

Yep - it’s 100% getting nuked at some point for that reason alone.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

RES is already unsupported, if they get rid of old I don't see how it could continue to work past that

[-] s0ckpuppet@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah to be honest I couldn't recall whether it worked well or at all on new reddit because I never use new reddit. I do remember the RES devs basically saying they were all but walking away from the project some time last year and that any updates going forward were gonna be bare minimum.

Golly i guess ill go have a look

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 36 points 9 months ago
[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

It's really weird though, honestly.

I mean a lot of bad UI exists, but this is bad even from a bad UI perspective because it doesn't even do the things bad modern UI is usually known for. It's just... it's almost as if they asked an LLM to make a design, and this is pieced hacked together from learned designs with no understanding why each piece exists or does not exist in the design it was taken from.

For example it uses post-designs that are meant for wide displays, but in a narrow one. It uses dual-sidebars, but doesn't put them on the sides, it keeps extra whitespace on the outside even on normal formats. It tries to look mobile-ish, without recycling functional elements from the mobile layout, more just apeing its design.

It's bizarre.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Definitely agree. It's really weird in its own, unique way.

Well, that's Reddit today, unique in its weirdness.

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago

Middle UI was junk too. old.reddit.com is basically the only usable layout.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 19 points 9 months ago

Beware, as usual Reddit users tend to be quite agressive

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Hahahaha. Im sorry it took so long to recognise the new paradise.

[-] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 19 points 9 months ago
[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 6 points 9 months ago
[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

And it's even worse than new reddit

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

That doesn't sound possible

[-] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 6 points 9 months ago
[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Can't, I only use reddit incognito and I can't take screencaps from there

[-] PlexSheep@feddit.de 11 points 9 months ago

Reddit is fun. If especially if you watch it burn.

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, if they kill old reddit I'm just done. Lemmy and Kbin will be my go-to sites, they kinda already are.

[-] Hate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

tbh it's better than their previous UI

Old Reddit > Current New Reddit > "Old" New Reddit

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago
[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 13 points 9 months ago

Well, this is the Reddit community, seems fair to post about the site evolution.

If you don't care about Reddit, why are you even here?

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

because the post is on hot.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 9 points 9 months ago

Then block the community and move on? Coming here with comments like the one above just seems counterproductive

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago
[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

Then block the community and move on? Coming here with comments like the one above just seems counterproductive

[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I care!

Just kidding, I don't care.

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