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 :/
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.
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.
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 ;-;
I use Connect and it is the closest thing to RIF. Over the last few weeks the app has improved a ton.
Ooo, I’ll have to check it out. I’m on Jerboa, which is good but I miss the buttons for snappy movements between comments that rif had the most
I know right I feel like I’m going crazy but no other app has these buttons and no one else mentioned them
Connect for Lemmy has the buttons, but also has these weird animations and they’re slightly different (like they don’t exist for nested comments, just the return to parent button)
+1 for connect from another RIF migrant here.
How do I send you and the developer $5
The devs info is in this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/2614066 . There is a link to “send him a coffee”. I don’t need the cash, so give my $5 to them. ;)
I check in on one specific community and feel sad that the users are still there. But one of them signed up here today so there is hope!
I was being a little cheeky, I get it. I have a personal feed of reddit posts that get pulled from the subs i miss without me needing to visit the site.
The migration will be slow, but hopefully steady! Honestly, the lack of content kinda sucks but its much higher quality and the discussions here are way more personal which is really nice.
Any tips how you pull stuff to read out of Reddit? RSS or something else?
I wrote a python script that uses the API (unauthenticated), it’s still in early stages right now but I intend to clean it up over the coming days and then publish it on GitHub – I’ll send you a link when i do :)
That would be great! Thanks!
Still use reddit and twitter for sports news and updates and a few fringe topics and I read only. Shut down my reddit account around 2019 and only have a twitter account because its a pain to view stuff if not logged in. Have never posted anything there.
try nitter.poast.org
Unfortunately he is making it for tildes, a platform run by a single admin who bans people who have discussions about difficult topics
Yeah that’s what I’ve seen too, I don’t know why he chose tildes? It’s not talked about, like at all. Seems like a big chunk of his userbase came over here
The admin there who owns the place seems to want to keep it small, so yes no clue why he is making his app over there at this point. It’s clear the owner of tildes doesn’t want the place to grow. He just wants a bunch of people circle jerking each other in their echo chamber.
Difficult topics = dog whistle
Uhh, no…I was banned for discussing a topic about how obesity is the number one killer and not tobacco…how is that a dog whistle?
But to people like you, anything you disagree with… instant nazi right?
No, just Nazi stuff.
I think when companies that originally offered something unique and desirable get large enough, they necessarily lose touch with what made them indispensable. Dollar signs lead to a notion of growth that summons a many-tentacled cocaine-caked Moloch of feature creep, tech bandwagon hopping, information siloing, data harvesting, advertiser worshiping, and corporate evil that is, at best, indifferent to user experience, but more typically actively antagonistic to it.
We are no longer their target audience, they don’t care what made it appealing to us. They are trying to position themselves as being the same as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook.
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.
And celeb gossips.
Sigh.
Dude idk crypto was fucking DROWNING r/all for a long time, maybe still is I eventually blocked it, so I get why they added it. And I think the type of person who would stick around on reddit or start now would still be into/interested in starting crypto.
I hope it is obvious that is not a compliment.
Bro what in the msn.com is this
Hahaha
the nostupidquestions post is so extremely stupid lmao
Probably AI generated
It’s not. It’s a common mathematical fallacy stumbled upon by crackpots who think they’re geniuses and have found a fundamental problem with math.
There’s a math professor at Harvard who gets sent this “proof” like once a month.
The fallacy here is the 1- in front of the limit. 0.999… = lim_n->∞{1-1/n} = 1-lim_n->∞{1/n} = 1-0 = 1, which simply proves that 0.999… = 1
Yeah, am I the only one who wants to track down that post and tell them how stupid they are?
I’d rather not use Reddit anymore
She’s dead. Move on, friend
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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That’s not a mobile first principal. Mobile first design and development includes progressive enhancement as the viewport grows. You can make a website that operates perfectly on mobile and desktop. These fucks just don’t actually adhere to any philosophies or standards. Don’t blame mobile first, which is a brilliant approach, for the shortcomings of a dumb-ass company like Reddit.
It’s called “responsive design” i think. I played around with it a bit when learning html years ago. You can get free website templates that have this cooked in - like, you don’t need to code anything. Seems easy to do and pretty much an industry standard now. Pretty weird that reddit would choose a trashy option instead.
Responsive design is approach you can use as part of your mobile first development. There are others, but responsive is a good one.
Yeah I used bootstrap for building some websites almost a decade ago now, and I used responsive design. You could have the website in a small browser window and it’d appear as the mobile version with a navbar at the top. As you drag the window wider it slowly morphed into the desktop version.
So much white space…so many frames…so much waste…I can’t look away…it’s whispering to me …
Mandatory Website Obesity Crisis mention, TL;DR:
Some kind of brain parasite infected designers back when the iPad came out, and they haven’t recovered. Everything now has to look like a touchscreen.
My gripe with this design aesthetic is the loss of information density. I’m an adult human being sitting at a large display, with a mouse and keyboard. I deserve better. Not every interface should be designed for someone surfing the web from their toilet.
It’s like we woke up one morning in 2008 to find that our Lego had all turned to Duplo. Sites that used to show useful data now look like cartoons. Interface elements are big and chunky. Any hint of complexity has been pushed deep into some sub-hamburger. Sites target novice users on touchscreens at everyone else’s expense.
I shouldn’t need sled dogs and pemmican to navigate your visual design.
A lot of apps are also just web wrappers for a mobile site… It’s obvious with some apps, others are a bit harder to see, but it’s there.
Low effort app developing.
funnily enough, it literally fucking is, this was originaly their mobile site.
Legit thought you were on YouTube.
It looks like a news site from 2012, and it actually looks like it’s trying to imitate digg lol
Seriously me too!! I was paying more attention to the TV show I was watching and was wondering what was so remarkable about the same old YouTube layout. I had to wait for it to end to really look at the picture DAYUMN it looks like YouTube. Wtf reddit what a weird thing to copy
Almost like when they replaced the reddit app with one that looked just like Instagram. Reddit has no originality I guess.
Looks like they copied youtubes front page.
I absolutely thought this was YouTube.
Wtf.
If pages like this don’t tell you “What’s Hot” how the fuck do you propose we find out what is hot?
Ask Paris Hilton
Or just look up her video.
I was thinking Yahoo
O_o
that looks like youtube. is that how non old.reddit looks like?
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
Precisely what it reminded me of, I think the way they should’ve gone is modernising the way they show dozens of post per scroll.
LOL. They went full Digg. I abandoned Digg for Reddit, and now Reddit for Lemmy.
same. slashdot to digg, digg to reddit, now reddit to lemmy.
Usenet to digg, digg to reddit, reddit to lemmy.
Oh, I never stopped using usenet 😅
I skipped the digging part of that, thank God.
Before Slashdot was Yahoo though. Remember when it was a basic search engine, then they made it “your home on the internet” or some shit and homepage was cluttered? This is what reddit reminds me of
Same here, oh well
Same here
Samezies
I went 4chan, Imgur, Reddit, Squabblr, and now Lemmy. Been a hell of a ride
Same. Bonus, I also abandoned Fark for Digg.
This is the third time I’ve watched a fantastic service shit it’s pants in public.
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.
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.
Tbf r/all sucks balls and I don’t go there anymore. I come here.
That’s sucks. Left after 10 years. I almost always browsed /all and just set up filters. Tons of filters.
I miss the random porn sprinkled in with my news and memes.
they are becoming Digg 3.0
yup. glad I left, what a trashfire.
GREAT WORK SPEZ YOU DIPSHIT
…is your handle a PowerPuff Girls reference? Take my upvote.
Kinda? mojojojo is always good but was thinking of things that had the o-o… because u/arglebargle was taken. that guy… jeeeze.
If it was Fischer-Price, it would be colorful. This is just the sort of bland, generic website UI you see everywhere
Remember, people complained Windows XP was a Fisher-Price OS. I don’t think this redesign will affect Reddit long-term, unfortunately.
Honestly, I would take the look of Windows XP over the look of Windows 10/11 or current MacOS. Of course, I’m on Linux, so I actually can do that
Of course, I’m on Linux, so I actually can do that
On an unrelated note, meet my daily driver!
(Complete with sounds, boot screen and login screen.)
Looks great, but do the windows jiggle when you drag them? Mine do
Ie. An easily censorable ui, it’s for Chinese interests.
