If you are logged in, you can set in your preference to always use the old design. As of lately though, "always" means "usually", as sometimes it will lose track of it and redirect you to the new design until you "opt-out" again.

Even then its a patchwork. Like some of the mod tools are new design only and then any tabs opened from there are new design.

Annoying AF & pretty sure it's not accidental

Sounds like bad code to me.

> Their efforts this year to make the desktop site look and work more like 9gag unless you plug "old.reddit.com" into the url bar was pretty fun too.

I've used reddit for almost a decade at this point. What makes the new changes similar to 9gag?

I disliked the redesign for 5 minutes, after getting used to the modal behavior I would not want to go back to the old reddit site.

It breaks commonly used tools, like RES. And using reddit without keyboard navigation is just painful.

> It's helped me cut my time on that site down to almost nothing, which has improved my overall mood quite a bit.

Hallmark of something designed to be additive is generating short term euphoria and a depressed baseline mood.