They killed third-party apps, which were way better than their garbage app and they don't seem to realize how much it annoys their users.

I’ve got six digits of karma, and I’d rather walk away than suffer through its awful UI.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/

Redit from a text based place, became a place driven by pictures (Can we call that "instagrami-zation"?).

The thing, is that discussion is what made reddit good. Now it's mostly low quality pictures, bots and comments written by marketers.

Then AI models and google search are trained on this garbage.

I wonder if someone will finally disrupt reddit

And that’s the point. They care about boosting their user base, not satisfying power users.

How is that "fine".

In the mobile app, even swiping from the left edge to go back doesn't work reliably.

Red Reader still exists.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/

I then went back to HN and turns out one of the hairs was real and I needed to clean my laptop screen :)

    /* Dead subpixel (Thanks M) */
    .content[role=main]:before {
        content: "";
        position: fixed;
        top: 126px;
        left: 242px;
        width: 1px;
        height: 1px;
        background: #f0f;
        z-index: 9999;
    }

    /* Hair */
    .content[role=main]:after {
        content: "";
        position: fixed;
        top: 150px;
        right: 150px;
        width: 140px;
        height: 200px;
        border-radius: 50%;
        box-shadow: 2px 0 rgb(60, 24, 24, 0.3);
        transform: skewX(-30deg) scale(0.6);
        pointer-events: none;
        z-index: 9999;
    }

    .thing.comment[id*=c] {
        transform: rotate(1deg);
        margin-top: 30px !important;
    }

    .comment p a{
        font-family:Comic Sans MS, Impact,serif;
    }

The numerous layers of attempted monetization schemes since 2016ish hilariously touted as "features" are sort of band-aided on top of each other on new reddit in a way that makes it the worst possible way to display the information. It's like a terrible UI challenge.

But I’m thankful for the other little things.

ctrl+F doesn’t work anyway as the comments are also buried in a “load more comments” on old reddit too. New website and app have a search comments field.

New website is unusable for me.

I noticed a day or two ago they quietly turned on the 'show new reddit as default' preference option, it was still possible to change default back but they won't stop pushing it.

You should just use a browser extension to do it since those don’t rely on an auth state anyway.

If old.reddit ever goes away I’ll probably stop using it entirely.