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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by edoceo on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:44PM (#25306792)
One has to actively try to use Old. So, usage is being reduced by attrition (but attributed to design success). So, apathy looks like successful KPIs.

New UI sucks. Forgets settings, frequent load errors (which blank out an already loaded content) and hit-boxes for clickable items are small/overlap which increases page hits (cause you nav to the wrong page). It smacks of a hasty rewrite in $HOTFRAMEWORK.

I use reddit less because of it. And a result of that is I've also reduced spending to reddit.

Edit: reduced advertising spend, not award spend (which was already zero)

Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by easterncalculus on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:05PM (#25307961)
Thankfully there are some browser extensions to redirect automatically, provided you're comfortable using them:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by edoceo on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:52PM (#25308626)
Reddit Management Read This!! If one needs an extension you get around the way you annoy your userbase be prepared for the userbase to leave. You are actively pushing them away. Thanks for coming to my TED talk
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by ardy42 on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:09PM (#25310587)
> Thankfully there are some browser extensions to redirect automatically, provided you're comfortable using them:

And if you're not, greasemonkey scripts that do that aren't hard to write. If you know how to code in any language and have a little knowledge of HTML, you can probably bash one together in an hour, even if you don't know Javascript.

Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by ihuman on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:52PM (#25308620)
If you have an account, you can just flip a switch in the settings that disables the new UI.
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by dredmorbius on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:17PM (#25310183)
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by ihuman on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:38PM (#25310355)
No, its true. I'm talking about the setting for your account, not the cookie one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25308836

Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by forgotmypw17 on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:53PM (#25308630)
yeah except "just" doing this doesn't work always.
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by edoceo on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:56PM (#25308675)
Exactly!
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by edoceo on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:55PM (#25308657)
I just signed in, I'm in the new UI, there is nothing in my settings to turn it off.
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by ihuman on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:07PM (#25308836)
In new reddit, there's an "Opt out of the redesign" option at the bottom of the "Account" section in new reddit. Turn that on.

There's also "Use new Reddit as my default experience" if your looking at the setting in old reddit, and you want to turn that off.

Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by edoceo on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:21PM (#25309041)
It's not there. Maybe that settings isn't on the Mobile UI (which goes back to my point about frustration and apathy being measured as "engagement")
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by forgotmypw17 on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:00PM (#25311298)
I've set all of these, and none of them are sticky enough to work all the time.

Reddit user for 10+ years here, coder and designer for 20+. I know the site pretty well. If I can't figure it out, it's pretty fucked.

Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by forgotmypw17 on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:53PM (#25308640)
neither of these work with my browsers.