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.

  • helenslunch
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    4 months ago

    “Forced” is a really weird way to describe it.

    Is it? In the past Reddit took strides to make the “classic” version available to users who wanted it (old.reddit).

    Companies redesign their physical and virtual spaces all the time and people [edit: usually] don’t react like it’s an act of violence.

    Probably because we all have jobs to do and KPIs were expected to hit and, at best, it causes a temporary hit to productivity while we learn a new system, and we are not allotted any time for that.

    At worst, the new system is very obviously straight garbage and causes permanent disruptions in productivity and stress. All the while the company is promising they will make it easier later with updates.