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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by nend on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:29AM (#25304196)
I find the new design horrendous if you're not signed in to an account. There's so many dark-patterns, it makes the site completely unusable. I suppose there's some metrics they optimize for that drove those decisions.

When logged in, the new design is fine I think. There's a couple minor annoyances, but nothing that makes we want to go and use old.

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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by jamil7 on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:33AM (#25304247)
> I suppose there's some metrics they optimize for that drove those decisions

It's just the work of bean counters optimising metrics that are visible to them. We're lucky an API exists and quality third-party clients can still be built but I assume they'll shut this off one day too.

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