As a 14-year long user, the new Fisher Price UI makes me sad :( What have they done to you, Reddit? : reddit

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As a 14-year long user, the new Fisher Price UI makes me sad :( What have they done to you, Reddit? (i.imgur.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by eeltech to c/reddit

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Notice there is only 1 full headline (from /r/NoStupidQuestions) visible, it doesn't even show the full post. There are 3 of those "trending" boxes but only 2 of those even fit their headlines because they are like 3 words long, they cut off anything longer including the description

I originally became addicted to Reddit because of how streamlined it was to skim dozens of headlines and pick from lots of content, seems they have decided content is not something they want to provide anymore :/

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[–] Z3k3 217 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow that's pretty horrible.

It's amazing what you miss due to 10 years of browsing with RIF and RES as mandatory installs

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"miss"

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[–] glimse 181 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Digg redesign vibes

[–] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago (10 children)

The day that digg launched that new design was the last day I ever logged into that site. Why do people fuck up things that work?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Things that work aren't profitable (enough). A thing that works is good for expanding customer base. A thing that almost works is good for profit per customer base. The thing is... A thing that works and is sustainable to maintain provides the most long term profits. There's no legal requirement a company grow in scope, but most investors (both in small and large companies) see that as the only way. Reddit has been operating on an unsustainable business model. Their core feature set is simple. Their userbase was loyal, and willing to pay for Reddit gold to directly keep the website running. The holes in their sustainability were a huge staff to develop features to grow their customer base despite no one wanting or asking for those features, a terrible ad model that left money on the table by not putting ads where they'd have the most effect (why did I always get Ford ads on r/FuckCars, never Taco Bell ads on r/ShittyFoodPorn, no small online stationary shops on r/FountainPens?) and not returning ads in API calls, and finally an API model that went from free to impossible to justify overnight. But no one on the board of directors is interested in a business that consistently makes money over the long term. They want to make as much money as possible all in one go.

Let me ask you this. Which is better? To run a small coffee roaster that employs 8 people and serves coffee through one physical shop and one online store front to a loyal fan base by serving a high quality product in small batches, or to be massive coffee company, shadowed in scale only by Starbucks and Peets, but going into bankruptcy because you can't keep up with Starbucks and Peets? I'd take the consistent sustainable business every time, but too many people want to be the big winner with the bankrupt company, and the result is the small investors, the ones who bought into the big coffee company, or Reddit, end up holding the bag while the people who took their money deploy their golden parachutes

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[–] nickhammes 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Designers want to get promoted, or get good bonuses for having impact. Product Managers are similarly incentivized to make changes, to improve some metric that they believe helps their business. If these structures exist, and the people making changes don't understand what the users want, or their incentives are misaligned... it's inevitable

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[–] [email protected] 153 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I think Reddit doesn’t realize that what made their UI so appealing was precisely that it felt really functional and bare bones, like Craigslist still does or Google used to. As if it was designed by nerds who just wanted the most functional site. It makes it seem more trustworthy and neutral, less monetized.

This redesign looks painfully corporate.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used RIF for the longest time and I just can't with the official app. It's already awful and if that's what the website looks like now then the app will have a worse UI soon.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (20 children)

You guys are still using Reddit?

Also i need talklittle to either port rif or make it open source so we can port it ourselves ;-;

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[–] whofearsthenight 30 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Topics on the side. "Gaming, Sports, Business, Crypto..." Reddit trying really hard to pretend it's not just around for porn and memes. Also, crypto lol. Tech bro a little harder, spez.

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[–] fredrik 115 points 10 months ago (7 children)

At first glance I thought it was youtube.

Is the old.reddit.com still usable or is that fucked up too?

[–] sulungskwa 66 points 10 months ago (2 children)

old.reddit.com is still kickin it. No talk I've heard of to get rid of it yet. The second it's gone I'm gone.

[–] hypelightfly 94 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

In case you didn't know and for everyone else that prefers the old UI there is a clone for lemmy.

https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

lemmy.world has it installed at https://old.lemmy.world. The creator has it running at https://mlmym.org/ for other instances that don't have it installed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Wow that's pretty accurate.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

Old Reddit is Reddit. If they get rid of it, I'm sure as fuck not sticking around for this new site. It looks like Bing and Youtube had a deformed little monster-child.

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[–] SendMePhotos 90 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bro what in the msn.com is this

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago (5 children)

If it was Fischer-Price, it would be colorful. This is just the sort of bland, generic website UI you see everywhere

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (5 children)

the nostupidquestions post is so extremely stupid lmao

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The fact that crypto is listed on the side makes me wanna bump my head on the wall.

The whole thing in general looks like a mobile app stretched to fit on a monitor. I mean, that's how most websites are in 2023.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago

She's dead. Move on, friend

[–] sugarfree 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hard to build a good looking website with just 2000 employees

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Legit thought you were on YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago

Looks like they copied youtubes front page.

[–] KingBoo 50 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I absolutely thought this was YouTube.

Wtf.

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[–] BassTurd 46 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So stop using it. Ffs, this place circle jerks over how bad that place is, and then you dumb mother fuckers keep going back. Move on already.

[–] knotthatone 54 points 10 months ago

Eh. it's one thing always talking about Reddit in more general communities, but this is a Reddit community.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

The magazine is called ‘Reddit’.. what are you doing here if you’re tired of hearing about it?

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[–] aceshigh 40 points 10 months ago

that looks like youtube. is that how non old.reddit looks like?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (9 children)

LOL. They went full Digg. I abandoned Digg for Reddit, and now Reddit for Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well at least it's better than the previous layout that squished everything into the center and had a ton of dead space on the sides.

It looks like YouTube now. But with text. lol

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[–] diffuselight 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

it’s facebook….

You don’t show full posts because then your team gets to count an ‘active’ user when people click to expand.

Metrics becoming the goal 101 and active user growth is important to get investors to hold the bag for your VCs. Every action right now, that the VC money is getting scarce is aimed at making Reddit look like a profitable target for street investors so your VCs can cash out. Doesn’t matter if what you do isn’t sustainable, because you are the VCs bitch now and they want their payout before you crash and burn.

[–] FourzerotwoFAILS 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Remember when they hid NSFW content from r/all and they said they would add a new filter that did contain the content?

Now you can't even select r/all from the drop down menu on their app. You have to open the sidebar, scroll all the way to the bottom, then select it. No way of setting it as the default. Classic algorithm push for advertisers.

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[–] Adeptfuckup 33 points 10 months ago

JFC that’s hilariously hideous. Well done spez you fucking wank stain

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The stupidity of the post is so attractive though. Perfect nerd click bait.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

they are becoming Digg 3.0

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alright which reddit dev just found out about inspect elements? Dude straight up went to youtube, pressed F12 and started copy pasting lol.

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[–] FlyingSquid 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What the ever-living fuck is this bullshit? I'm glad I abandoned Reddit before they started this bullshit.

At least Old Reddit is still available. Right? I think? But for how long?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think the UI looks okay. I dislike the trending boxes which makes my brain think they are ads.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They’re turning it into a magazine - wonder when they’ll add personalisation algo

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[–] Reygle 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Reddit and all, but old.reddit.com if you MUST go there.

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[–] balderdash9 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read this as "As a 14 year old user" and thought that was an impressive Fisher Price reference for a 14 year old lol

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[–] CrypticVader 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why does this image remind me of Quora?

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[–] Mockrenocks 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reddit has been Digging themselves a grave and it's both hilarious and tragic. How fucking stupid of a user generated content farm to shoot themselves in the foot and actively antagonize the people that made the site relevant. Top tier dipshittery.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

On my machine it doesn’t even take up the whole window. The left column is pushed out to the right, giving less space for actual content. Do they have UX engineers? This is very bad, especially when you can go to the old site and get a ton more info on one page instantly.