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.

  • yukichigai
    13•7 months ago

    Counterpoint: the moderation teams for the bulk of the most popular subs have flat out said that they cannot do their jobs without old.reddit, and the Admins (for what its worth) seem to have acknowledged that. I think old.reddit may get perpetually frozen with no new features added, but removing it outright seems unlikely.

    Of course, them just closing their API entirely seemed unlikely too, so…

      • @The_v
        5•7 months ago

        It impacted the quality of the site. However they don’t care about quality only about money or the appearance of making money.

        They want is the investors to look at the site, see all the shitty ads, the number of claimed users and believe it’s worth pouring money into the IPO.