Reddit admins made a post today about their upcoming desktop redesign. Others disagree.

24  2018-02-02 by HodorTheDoorHolder

18 comments

I am not sure which is more cringey, the litany of erroneous assumptions you splayed out or the act of calling upon the student archetype with the intent of derision. Anti-intellectualism, check. src

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I just want a fucking forum where I can bitch and moan about my own problems and read about other people's problems, ok?

I like how what about TD is the new what about SRS.

Hey, that sounds like a real improvement twitch over the status quo grrrowl --- face twists, hulks out "NnyyyyyaaaAAAARGGHH BUT WHEN WILL T_D BE BENNED???"

I like how what about TD is the new what about SRS.

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When are you going to take responsibility for the fact that the #2 subreddit is a hate group that spreads Russian propaganda freely?

When are you going to take responsibility for helping hostile powers both foreign and domestic subvert our elections and destroy our democracy?

where were u when the russians stole the election via reddit?

shitposting on /r/drama

watching a black woman scan my SAT like ballot. doubt she was russian, but just a hunch. 🤷‍♀️couldn’t leave until it was accepted.

To be fair, infinite scroll and lightboxes are some straight shit, so it makes perfect sense for the admins to think they’re a useful solution.

Desktop redesign.

I remember when Digg did a "redesign." It's the reason moved to reddit in the first place.

Their redesign was more of a restructuring of their business model.

REEEEEEEE LE BUMPFFFFFF STILL EXISTS!

aside from infinite scroll, which is possibly the worst web design "innovation" ever to become popular, it looks fine tbh

Could you elaborate why that is? I quite like it, but of course only if the infinite scroll remembers my previous position. I really like websites that do that.

i dont think ive ever encountered a site that reliably remembered where i was across sessions. also, i dont necessarily want to be limited to a single browsing position (i.e. digging through the archive or periodically checking new posts), which is probably the biggest limitation. beyond that, i guess im old school in that i enjoy being able to manually manipulate urls to dive to a certain depth within whatever im looking through, i find it much more fluid and enjoyable than having to scroll through a billion results im not interested in/have already seen to get to where i want to be. it's a huge reduction in user control for a minor gain in user experience, basically.

The classic view seems alright, but the card view looks like it was stolen from Facebook.

Also I noticed there was no mention of Subreddit styling. Are they still going to gut CSS like previously mentioned?

I think they backed off on the CSS stuff.

That's exactly what they are doing. I fully expect profile pictures by 2020, at the rate they're moving too.

People getting confused with Reddits interface is exactly why the dirty facefags of defaults stay in defaults, otherwise every sub would have an user base like advice animals.