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.
I know people believe what they want to believe but it’s very apparent at this point (as expected) that the API changes were not a “fatal shot” for Reddit, nor will this be.
If there’s anything Twitter has taught us, it’s that there’s no amount of abuse the average user won’t tolerate once they’re locked into your ecosystem.
Some less-applicable examples are abundant: Meta? Wells Fargo? Apple? Google? I mean pretty much every publicly-traded corporation in existence, really.
Consumers have no spine.
It’s kinda hard to cut out something like reddit 100%. I technically stopped using Reddit, I’ve only been on Lemmy since RiF was shut down since I’m mainly a mobile user. I logged into my reddit account once and that was to commission an art piece. And that’s something I’ll probably keep doing because it’s been the best experience for commissions.
There’s also search inquiries that you can get actual answers to just by typing reddit at the beginning of your search. Like when my TV started having an issue I tried normal search results and forums, absolutely zero help. All the answers were either buy a new TV or call a tech, and the people that dealt with techs said it was minimum $300 for the tech to tell them they had to take the TV for a minimum 2 weeks. So I tried a search by typing Reddit in front and I found a solution within the first two posts. Lead me to a YouTube channel where the guy showed how to fix the issue in 10 minutes with just a piece of tape.
Reddit will keep getting worse, but there will still be useful posts from it’s better days. I wouldn’t say that it’s that consumers have no spine, but rather it’s a mix of old habits and sunken cost fallacy. But it will reach a point like Myspace and Facebook did and lose a large amount of users.
You should try Fiverr instead.
Being a logged out reader is far less valuable than a logged-in contributor. That’s why Meta and Xitter don’t let you do anything without being logged in. Fortunately that’s something Reddit still allows.
I tried Fiverr a few times, especially after the Reddit changes. But i haven’t enjoyed my experiences so far. I’ve also tried deviant art and art station, but so far HungryArtists has been a great experience. Would love to have that on Lemmy.
Dear god, now that you say this I realize it’s just a matter of when. Why is enshittification so rampant?
Yeah I dunno. I’m kinda flummoxed that they haven’t closed Old Reddit yet.
Xitter? You mean Twix? ;-)