It’s bad. I’m not just saying that, I have tolerated a lot of site ux changes that other people hated (Slashdot beta?!), but the site is so much worse now. All the posts in r/help are about how bad it is. I haven’t seen an official announcement so I’ll try to summarize the obvious changes:

  • some style differences. Normally not a big deal, but up/down vote seem more cramped on my tiny phone screen for post listings.
  • my feed is full of communities I don’t care about. Reddit is “helpfully” trying to introduce me to new communities, but I purposefully didn’t join r/pics, thanks. There are soooo many suggested posts none of which I’m interested in.
  • if you open a post, the link back to the community is even smaller and harder to click than before.
  • posts now include an ad section of “other posts you may like”, which seem to be popular posts that I already read in the past. Thanks but I already read them, why are you suggesting them?
  • (edit to add) actually the “other posts you may like” includes random links to content on other subs I’m not interested in. It’s like the developers had to implement 10 different “features” to cross link posts and this is the best they could do in 4 hours.

I closed the site at this point. Share your own bad experience below

  • @GTAVC
    4•1 year ago

    I joined the Fediverse after Reddit shut down the 3rd party apps, with it my beloved RIF. Tried out the official app and recoiled in disgust. SO. MANY. FUCKING. ADS. Been browsing Reddit with mobile Firefox and uBlock Origin ever since. Still had some issues with pages repeating themselves after the 5th page or so, but still sufficient for the occasional scroll.

    Well, as you guess it: Mobile UI redesign. Pages take 10 seconds to load, shift 5 times as my poor poor ad blocker is forced to take up overtime. And the ads are terrible, I saw a user complaining about NSFW medical gore ads and they were asking how to disable them. The answer was simply: You can’t opt out of that selection, buy premium.

    At least I found out how to get RIF back into working order again, using the ReVanced Manager. Even completely without ads. Reddit will get no penny from me ever again. I’ll keep browsing it and using their bandwidth, but never comment or vote anymore.

    As a car mechanic, I frequent a lot of tech support subs and like helping people. I still do that, but in DMs. This way Reddit can’t use my content to display more ads. I have no beef with the people using Reddit for help. My beef is solely with their management and u/spez specifically.

    Obligatory fuck u/spez.