Happened to me a few days ago, and I just can’t believe how bad this redesign is!!
It’s hard to comprehend what goes into the heads of that dev team, but they basically ruined everything nice about the platform. The API changes were pretty much a fatal shot already, but this new redesign seems to be what tipped the scales for me, and hopefully many more.
It’s a great time to switch to Lemmy, and I think I’m going to make the effort to stick around and abandon the habit of opening reddit multiple times per day.
Do you think forcing this re-design will bring more people here? I’m hoping for that. Reddit betrayed us and I can’t find it me to keep forgiving them for every horrible, anti-user decision.
I noticed in some moderator subreddit, that it is planned to kill new.reddit.com as well. Old will likely stay for longer, but new is what I got used to, and if they take it down I won’t bother getting used to the newer, garbage UX.
Agree even reddit is killing the new.reddit.com ui
Yeah sh.reddit.com is a good name for the new new design. I couldn’t fucking believe how bad it is and now opt out! There is an reddit-redirect browser addon to redirect to new.reddit. Reddit-enhancer is also working on improving the new “tik-tokified” UI. My guess we’ll see more expansive and transformative browser addons instead of clients.
So is old reddit dead? Like old.reddit.com?
No it’s still there. Not sure what they’re on about unless it’s some A/B testing.
The opt-out is also still there in the user settings page. (Though phrased… poorly. Probably on purpose.)
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I saw the writing on the wall over the summer of 2023. Reddit won’t die, nothing will. I had tinkered with mastodon before but that realisation above is really what pushed me to migrate everything I use to the fediverse. Most people are too stubborn to give up the very things that keep abusing them because they are already established, instead of putting in the effort of engaging with something new. Even yesterday a friend of mine was nonstop complaining about twitter and when I mentioned bluesky and mastodon “oh it’s okay, X is more popular so I’m just gonna stay on it”. I have Lemmy and bluesky for now. I have ecosia for my search and waterfox for my browser. the only thing it’s really hard to get rid of is YouTube, even invidious is just a front-end for it. kinda got off topic but the point is, Reddit hasn’t lost momentum. nothing has or will for a long while. bad changes will keep enshittifying everything.
Just checked for you lazy bastards.
Old.reddit.com still working (for me anyways)
Unless a larger portion of the userbase migrates, Reddit will get to do what they want to. Unfortunately the landed gentry/toxic mods are going to do what they can to keep them there too, including modding out any info posts about alternatives.
whaat? They changed like nothing at all. Where is the redesign? The current UI is garbage, but the new one is equally as bad
I believe new.reddit is the design they’ve had for a while, and sh.reddit is the redesign. I’m not at my computer though, so I can’t verify
On Firefox mobile when I click in to a post now the comment dialog has like 10 characters width max.
If I scroll down at all in a nested chain it quickly goes to 1 character lol
If I refresh then it somewhat goes back to normal.
Wait, there’s a newer redisgn than new?
You should be able to see it if you open reddit in incognito without logging in: https://reddit.com/
it ain’t worth disabling my old redirect (which still works) to look.
Looking more and more like the current version of digg.com.
This is why we teach history, kids.
Wow what a horrible day to have eyes
As an ex-redditor, my only reaction is
I don’t see /r/windows10 and/r/windows11 doing that well here.
Oh no.
Any time Reddit makes a stumble is likely to generate at least a small exodus looking for alternatives. This is an example of such a moment.
In order to keep those users on Lemmy it needs to have activity. A community with no posts or only ancient posts is not attractive. Yes, Lemmy has politics and memes, but it needs more activity in other types of communities. People say as much constantly and it is obvious.
If you want Lemmy to thrive then I highly suggest you post in communities relevant to your interests.
It would also be nice if some of the largest instances didn’t ban people for not thinking Mao Zedong was a good dude.
The Old Reddit Redirect addon for Firefox still works.
The day that breaks, is the day when I finally come to the realization that I will have to find someplace else for niche content that isn’t available here. I’m not so sure that such a website exists. Reddit killed off all the competition.
