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Colour me surprised
Every time i accidentally enter new.reddit i revolt with how awful the UI is
You ever feel like that's a personal limitation? I start feeling a bit like a boomer when I get a strong urge to resist change
That said, fuck Reddit's admin team/corporate leaders
Personal limitation? I mean, the UI is worse. Bloated, confusing, and doesn't look any better. It has extra ads that look both like posts and comments. Fuck that.
Beyond that, it also just runs way worse; new.reddit takes at least twice as long to load a page than old.reddit. And when your entire business model is based on exploiting my stunted attention span to trick me into reading advertisements, you can't give me that extra two and a half seconds to realize maybe I don't give a shit about half the garbage I just mindlessly scrolled through, or else I'm gonna just go, like, fly a kite or something. And I don't wanna do that, where do you even get a kite?
And hell, it's entirely possible this rate limit isn't just restricted to old.reddit, but nobody's noticed yet because new.reddit is too slow to make 100 requests in a measly 10 minutes.
where do you even get a kite?
I dunno. But I know I would've searched best budget kite on reddit before lol.
where do you even get a kite?
I found 1 community that might be able to answer that question, but the last post on there was a year ago: !kiteboarding@discuss.tchncs.de
Betcha there'd be more posts there if people actually knew where to get kites...
Why won’t you do your part to maximize shareholder value?
Stop limiting your potential…
I don't think you understood my comment. Sorry I wasn't clearer
I wasn't referencing the UI at all. I was specifically referring to the feeling of revulsion. I personally get that feeling whenever windows rolls out something new
I'm definitely not shilling for the new UI or all the fuckin ads, that's for sure. lol
I see, I am sorry for argumenting then.
I too feel revulsion when a new Win update rolls out, tho.
Change is only good if it's an improvement. New Reddit is objectively a worse experience than old Reddit. At least as far as I can tell in the brief times I've tried powering through just looking at it when I get there from google or something. There's a longer delay opening shit (or at least more noticeable because it has a stupid spinning reddit logo instead of blank space or whatever old reddit does), comments are less densely packed. It inserts recommendations to other posts within the comments of the one you're currently looking at. It's just terrible.
It's worst when I feel the UI has been engineered to make it harder finding the information I am looking for and/or make it slower.
I joke that I'm actively turning boomer in my ripe ol' age of mid 20's...
And if that means I'll be kicking and screaming down the road of enshittification of the internet then so be it
No, I agree the enshitifcation is real. I guess part of that is it makes me feel crazy enough to doubt myself
It's like, I know the internet was for sure better before, but you know what if maybe the 10,000th seemingly unnecessary change that YouTube makes that piss me off is actually a pretty ok or even great thing and I'm all against it like boomers were with computers or how they are now with clean energy or how they are with whatever they're cranky about any given day?
I guess keeping in mind their goal is to squeeze us dry and profit til infinity, it's clear these apps will just get as shitty as we'll put up with
Maybe a little bit of both. I do feel a strong urge to resist change a lot of the time. Some times I get used to the new thing and it isn't so bad actually, some times the more I experience the new thing I hate it more. Just keep an open mind and give the new thing an honest shot I think we'll be ok.
Yeah, I think giving things a fair shot is big. I tend to hate everything windows rolls out with a passion but then I'll see people that don't care at all just using the same things I'm making a big stink about
Weeelll Windows specifically falls into the "the more I use the more I hate" camp personally. I got a brand new Win10 laptop like 5 years ago that made me made the jump to Linux and I haven't looked back since.
For me it's not so much that as it is the old layout being easier to work with when mostly browsing text-only subreddits. I think Reddit should be more appreciative of the things that made Reddit this big in the first place, including the design of the site at the time. It's very much an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" scenario