Silly geese - the redesign isn’t for the users, it’s for the investors, for the upcoming IPO. It’s like staging a house for sale. The point isn’t to make the house livable, it’s to make it desirable to buyers.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2024
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Serious question - How does the redesign make it desirable to potential investors?
It doesn't.
But it means they can pretend like the platform is still innovating and improving.
Investors want number go up, consistent development and a stable usercount is the same as flatlined and dead to these people.
Maybe an attempt to push more people to their app? Then they can harvest more user data which investors value.
I dunno, I think the redesign is a significant improvement:
https://i.imgur.com/G1hINqY.png
Far less annoying than the old design.
Whoa there pardner?
It's a joke.
Like the blocked notice looks nicer than reddit.
The exact attitude you get from Reddit power mods though it's missing a few insults
Incredibly annoying and passive aggressive, yet somehow still less annoying than actual reddit.
same
Really like how they organized everything in blocks neatly. No crap, only the text the authors want to tell us.
I bet old.reddit is gonna be axed fairly soon. All signs point that way.
- Killing the free API access and thereby putting most 3rd party apps out of commission
- The expensive rebrand from pentagram
- Reddit all but officially announcing they're going for the IPO finally (plans leaked to the press)
- Unpopular redesign of the new reddit layout which I assume will push a group of folks back to old.reddit
- ...
Also wouldn't surprise me if RES is killed off in the not too distant future.
Edit: wow that new redesign they just pushed is indeed pretty bad
I was discussing with a mod in comments today, apparently they got "guarantees that old.reddit would stay"
Didn't want to ask if those were the same guarantees than for the 3rd party apps, but I agree with you indeed.
Yeah big grain of salt with that promise.
One thing that stands out to me about old.reddit is that it allows you to browse NSFW subs without being signed in. I feel like that absolutely will not jive with their IPO, so something there is gonna change one way or another. Could be as simple as no longer allowing any non logged in users from browsing NSFW or more drastic like killing NSFW altogether or killing old.reddit.
Yep - it’s 100% getting nuked at some point for that reason alone.
RES is already unsupported, if they get rid of old I don't see how it could continue to work past that
Yeah to be honest I couldn't recall whether it worked well or at all on new reddit because I never use new reddit. I do remember the RES devs basically saying they were all but walking away from the project some time last year and that any updates going forward were gonna be bare minimum.
Golly i guess ill go have a look
😂
Lmao
It's really weird though, honestly.
I mean a lot of bad UI exists, but this is bad even from a bad UI perspective because it doesn't even do the things bad modern UI is usually known for. It's just... it's almost as if they asked an LLM to make a design, and this is pieced hacked together from learned designs with no understanding why each piece exists or does not exist in the design it was taken from.
For example it uses post-designs that are meant for wide displays, but in a narrow one. It uses dual-sidebars, but doesn't put them on the sides, it keeps extra whitespace on the outside even on normal formats. It tries to look mobile-ish, without recycling functional elements from the mobile layout, more just apeing its design.
It's bizarre.
Definitely agree. It's really weird in its own, unique way.
Well, that's Reddit today, unique in its weirdness.
Middle UI was junk too. old.reddit.com is basically the only usable layout.
They redesigned again?
Yes
And it's even worse than new reddit
That doesn't sound possible
Post a ss
Can't, I only use reddit incognito and I can't take screencaps from there
Jfc
Beware, as usual Reddit users tend to be quite agressive
Hahahaha. Im sorry it took so long to recognise the new paradise.
Reddit is fun. If especially if you watch it burn.
Yeah, if they kill old reddit I'm just done. Lemmy and Kbin will be my go-to sites, they kinda already are.
tbh it's better than their previous UI
Old Reddit > Current New Reddit > "Old" New Reddit
Who cares.
Well, this is the Reddit community, seems fair to post about the site evolution.
If you don't care about Reddit, why are you even here?
because the post is on hot.
Then block the community and move on? Coming here with comments like the one above just seems counterproductive
It hit the front page.
Then block the community and move on? Coming here with comments like the one above just seems counterproductive
I care!
Just kidding, I don't care.