I went to take a look to a sub reddit this week, after a few months of not going there and their new design has gotten way worse. I mean only a comment depth of only ONE?

Edit: I retested it on Firefox and at least there I had a decent comment depth.

If/when old.reddit.com stops working, I will overcome my Reddit addiction once and for all.

The native mobile apps are good which is Reddit’s only saving grace.

It’s so easy to design something for designs sake while ignoring the fundamental reasons people use the site - first and foremost the content, not the site looking visually good or some clever card pattern or other UI concept.

The whole reason Digg got blasted was how it lost information density and jumped on the ‘web 2.0’ bandwagon without improving the user experience.

The new reddit is significantly worse but I think it got redesigned with ad revenue as top priority

And if you click read more, it's only to read 1 more level. You have to keep clicking read more all the way down...

As far as I can tell, subreddits custom sidebars are missing. That's insane they ignored that.

You realize the site redesign isn't why Digg failed, right? At least not the literal UI part, anyway.

They formalized power users by giving them outsized control of content, and that is what drove people off the platform, not because the site was less pretty...