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Tell HN: Reddit just made their website even more unusable

12 points by c7DJTLrn ↗ HN
Not sure if I'm part of an A/B test right now, but I'm seeing a new design which is absolutely crap.

Subreddits still have the "old new" design but instead of seeing a modal when I click a post, it navigates to another page and completely changes design. Colours, padding, even the font looks different.

I cannot believe how bad it is. It's like Windows at this point. What is going on over there that prevents them from building a decent interface?

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PaulHoule
they want you to get disoriented, click mindlessly, hit an ad, ka-ching!
JohnFen
Does old.reddit.com not work anymore?
glaucon
Yep, hanging on in there, thank gawd.
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chatmasta
I read somewhere that most moderators use that version, so hopefully that's sufficient reason for Reddit to not disable it.
rzzzwilson
It's worse than that. Try accessing these three URLs. They all render differently. The "old" site is expected to render differently, but why are the "www" and "new" sites vastly different? And it's not just the "look and feel", the content is also different??

https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/

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

https://new.reddit.com/r/popular/

glaucon
For me, at Tue Apr 11 03:07:12 2023 UTC, 'www' and 'old' are both looking like I would expect 'old' to look like, that's got to be temporary ?

The 'new' looks a bit better than 'www' did when I last saw it so a bit of a win there.

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warrenm
for me just now ... 'www' and 'new' are apparently identical

ad neither seems notably different from how it's looked for years

gardenhedge
Noticed that today. I see to be getting different layouts depending on if I'm clicking a search result or just browsing
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sen
They also recently killed the i.reddit.com and /.compact mobile layouts, meaning there's no mobile web layout available other than the "new" one which is practically unusable if you're not logged in (I browse reddit occasionally for news, but don't have an account).
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