You can still access the old new reddit by going to new.reddit.com, ironically enough, or old reddit through old.reddit.com
It just looks like a new version of Facebook
I think that was the goal.
Gotta hand it to them. They’ve perfectly managed to capture that feeling of driving on a highway with endless billboards.
I hate how Reddit conditioned my brain to see score before the actual content and make up my mind about it before even reading it.
I don’t say scores aren’t important to have some kind of loose groupthink quality control but it all has as many cons as it has pros and there isn’t really a perfect solution just least bad.
Also it is the main thing making social media so addicting when you receive points and I want internet to serve me and not I serve the internet.
If a phone/site/program makes everything possible to be as addictive then it actually makes you a slave to it imo instead of it being a useful tool enriching your experience and serving you to maybe get more useful information or show new ideas.
That’s why these new designs get more pretty to look at but less useful because they are made to hijack your time from yourself for ad watching. So in a way ad based companies literally do everything to steal the most valuable resource from you - your time and by extension - your life.
Agree.
Do people not know about lemmy or are just unwilling to switch? I genuinely don’t understand people’s loyalty to tech companies
reddit has a huge backlog of billions of posts. until lemmy keeps up with it, i won’t completely leave reddit, because my favorite part about reddit is exploring obscure communities, which lemmy does not have. (I’m using lemmy for actual discussions and stuff) Also I think it’s still the most decent network out of all big tech ones, i.e. it’s not as bad as fucking Instagram or whatever…
Well yeah, I get the backlog of post. Reddit threads from 4+ years ago still come up when I Google something. I mean actively using reddit. The obscure communities can be made and will be once more people use lemmy. Reddit didn’t have them at the start either
None of the niche communities I am interested in exist on lemmy. Maybe they will eventually, maybe they won’t. It’s more or less useless beyond doom scrolling. I miss reddit because I miss having all of my useful forums in one place with a better thread format, and I didn’t need to remember a bunch of accounts to participate in something like /r/tipofmytongue or /r/bikewrench periodically. Lemmy is just a political news space with memes and that’s not going to attract everyone.
It’s literally the same format as reddit. Just make those communities
Oh, I should clarify. They exist, but nobody uses them. So they’re useless, like asking a ‘genuine’ question and then disagreeing with answers you don’t like.
You may have legitimately misunderstood that I meant better format than normal forums. I’m using lemmy, I know it’s the same layout as reddit
In my opinion. The majority of computer/phone users is not very technical. They get used to how something they use works. It keeps working as is for a long time.
Then when small changes make it worse, they just accept them. Its just a bit worse. No biggie, then at some point they are used to the new normal. Something else gets worse and the whole thing repeats. It has to be literally unusable before such users switch to a new thing. Like reddits servers need to shut down, that kind of unusable.
95% of users are like that (1).
- citation needed…
True, I honestly don’t get it. In everything in life if I don’t like something I find something better or try to fix it. I hate relying on some entity blindly putting my trust into them. I will genuinely never understand the blind trust people put into anything and everything. I can’t tell if it’s ignorace or apathy
that’s the sh.reddit.com ui, you get it if you’re not logged in, otherwise you get new.reddit.com.
i think new.reddit.com or old.reddit.com are much better tbh, but they’re probably using it because new.reddit.com is really buggy while logged out (i assume they blocked it for logged out users by now right?)Yeah the point of the post is to say that’s becoming the default now. I can always type in new.reddit.com, but any link I click will take me back to this
they probably swapped it over because new. version was very buggy if not logged in as i said + sh. is much more indexable
I was very confused for a moment as this is how my Lemmy looks - I’m using the Photon interface (e.g. https://photon.lemmy.world/) Pretty much identical.
Thankfully, unlike reddit, you can always change this appearance with options or with another Lemmy app.
not a fan of the layout, but photon is still way lighter than reddit
Ya I noticed that shreddit uses a similar layout to photon
Very unpopular opinion:
Old ui sucks. You can’t see shit on phone nor on desktop. It’s just wall of text.
I disagree, you can see so much on the old layout specifically because it’s a wall of text. The new layout is unnecessarily bloated and takes up your whole screen on every device you view it from, so you can barely see more than one or two posts at a time. It removes the ability for the user to freely scroll and look at things that interest them, and forces the user’s attention onto exactly what the algorithm wants them to. The new layout removes a ton of agency from the user.
I think for two simply have different use cases for Reddit.
The old ui is great if you see Reddit as a text aggregator. You want text or headlines and click on the content to see it. Images are almost meaningless.
The new ui puts a focus on visual connect. Images and videos are the focus, you don’t have to follow links most of the time, because the content is embedded.
Those are two very different approaches. Neither is doing a great job of achieving their goals, though.
It’s great for porn, lol. My main account was old Reddit, but my porn account is the new layout.
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I don’t like how it looks either. Way too busy. Only thing is, it is lightweight though. New reddit usually crawls to a halt after half an hour of scrolling (which is probably good for my mental health).
Old reddit absolutely had its issues. The new and newnew design is just decisively worse however.
For the mobile UI:
Old reddit: Yes
Around Reddit API debacle: Alright UI
Newest Reddit UI: Annoying
