Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of Reddit (2014)

Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by samstave on Saturday November 09, 2019 @03:37PM (#21494195)

The UI is really important. Ive been on Reddit now for 13 years. I still use the old.reddit and desktop mode. With nightshift and RES and hoverzoom.

It probides the best information density and consumability.

The new reddit ui sucks. Mucking with UI/UX can spell death gir a site, as it did with digg.

I will never ho to the new york times as an example of how to have a shitty UX.

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by Scapeghost on Saturday November 09, 2019 @03:45PM (#21494237)

> I still use the old.reddit and desktop mode.

Same here! I hate the redesign with a passion. Most of my Redditor friends are the same.

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by OnlineGladiator on Saturday November 09, 2019 @05:45PM (#21495011)

I hate the new design so much I'll actually stop using reddit whenever they sunset the old layout. And I use reddit a lot.

And I really really hate v.reddit their embedded video player. I am getting irrationally angry just thinking about it and how it's making the internet a worse place.

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by Razengan on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:29PM (#21495546)

It's full of problems. It'll often fail to load, or load parts in a poor quality that will not improve. You can't easily download them either. I don't even click on posts that have a v.redd.it link anymore.

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by DarthGhandi on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:30AM (#21496907)

Unless we are victims of A/B testing I'm 90% sure old.reddit.com doesn't work anymore. Care to screenshot me the old Reddit design¿?

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by KKPMW on Sunday November 10, 2019 @06:46AM (#21497604)

Here it is: http://karolis.koncevicius.lt/data/old_reddit.png

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by DarthGhandi on Sunday November 10, 2019 @07:23AM (#21497710)

Nice, can I get a link for that you've got there?

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by KKPMW on Sunday November 10, 2019 @07:48AM (#21497768)

For me it's just https://www.reddit.com/r/all/

But you have to select "opt out of redesign" somewhere in your preference settings.

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by samstave on Sunday November 10, 2019 @09:18PM (#21501617)

https://i.imgur.com/RIHhpaj.png

https://i.imgur.com/eWOk6xG.png

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Set your preferences to NOT use the new reddit, and then tell it you want "destop site"

https://i.imgur.com/0lSFD3C.png

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Re:Aliens in the valley: The complete and chaotic history of... by dageshi on Saturday November 09, 2019 @05:08PM (#21494745)

I think it's the shift to mobile first design. Old reddit was a desktop site, new site is designed for mobile first.

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