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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Debrox@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

In most situations, ‘vision and concept’ just add bloat and additional clicks required to complete the same tasks as the previous, spartan/utilitarian design did.

A good example of what I’m referring to is the Metro UI of Windows 8; yes it arguably looked ‘prettier’ - but that’s largely subjective and made actually using the device worse, without 3rd party applications to restore the Windows 7 Start Menu functionality.

Sometimes, albeit not always - programmers do end up making pretty efficient UIs.

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Metro would have probably been a decent layout for a dumb terminal with a touch screen. I have no idea why they thought it was a good idea for a typical computer OS.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 8 months ago

I think it was a good idea they just stopped too soon. They should've made the window manager better and made a better story for legacy apps.

Instead they just went "eh you've got the old desktop as an app, good enough right?"

It's like creating iOS and then having the Mac desktop as an app🤦‍♂️

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 8 months ago

Not in this situation, the old UI is horrible and the new one actually looks great (we got some complaints previously for how bad it looks).

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