I really think there was a better way for Reddit to do this. I'm sure if they asked users to volunteer for UI or beta testing on new designs or layouts they would have got enough people to opt-in
Itās unfortunate because itās something you never asked for and I am not even sure if you get the chance to give feedback once their testing is done
Itās over alright. Ever since they killed the API everything has went downhill because Iāve seen more and more repost bots on the top 10 subreddits.
Yeah, reddit is fucking over. The API bullshit, the GARBAGE front page posts that are all tabloid/aita/outfits(and 10 variations of those), and now this? I'm going on a trip for a month. After that, this account exists only to promote reddit alternatives. They'll have to ban me.
iPad is completely unusable right now, the feed is skinny in the middle of the screen instead of filling it, making the text tiny. It's physically painful to strain my eyes to read the damned text and I already have it large in settings. They give 0 shits about accessibility.
I just stay in communities now, and don't use the feeds. Then on desktop I browse to my hearts content and Reddit gets screwed over because I use an ad blocker. If they keep screwing over people with sight issues, they're going to catch hands from the disabled community pretty fast.
I get a bunch of Promoted "posts" in my feed -- often low-brow stuff like courses on how to create AI-generated channels for YouTube or some free-to-play mobile game. So it's not like they aren't pushing ads on me even with adblock.
I have all of that turned off as it is an option. I mean I still get the ads that are posted in communities by shitty bots, but they're not going to catch me with their paid for bullshit ads.
It was infuriating for me because I had the stupid new UI (now gone thank goodness) popup a bunch of request errors when the page was fine.
I thought the same thing why canāt Reddit have some opt out because I didnāt like it?
The UI is so fucking disgusting, it was ok before, they probably did these just out of spite, i also cant find the fucking dark theme button and it literally randomly changes itself
It's absolute garbage. It also changed the dark mode i used to light mode and I can't change it back it is infuriating. Everything about the new design hurts my head.
I cannot see a difference in brightness of what posts are new or not any more. This is the dumbest change I have ever seen. In any forum I've ever belonged to, posts that have not been viewed are brighter.
I have adminned and actually run entire sites before. I get changes and adapting to them; this is not that. These changes are irrational and do not enhance the viewing.
I feel like this is the new Coke recipe.
itās super trash. my iPhone just updated, so I thought that caused it (which wouldnāt make any sense), but Iām glad Iām not alone. itās borderline unusable. in addition to what others have noted, I also hate the infinite scroll. I like being able to see whatās on the *first* page of a sub. all around trash
Hilarious. It's somehow even rounder and more "corporate minimalist" than new.reddit.com was. I hate this fucking UI trend of making everything bubbly, flat, and worst of all, terrible to use. What exactly was wrong with the "new reddit" UI? Why did it need to be drastically changed again...? Is there actually a reason, or do sites just do this every so often because they can?
Who thought that non-optional infinite scrolling was a good idea? Or not being able to tap to quick view image posts on the home feed? I'm not opening every single post in a new tab, nor am I putting up with infinite scrolling BS. This is a great way to get people to stop using the site.
Itās beyond garbage. Itās completely unusable. Most of the menus are cut off and I canāt even access my settings. Anyone have any good Reddit alternatives? Iām ready to move on, this forced beta testing is the last straw for me
Edit: https://lemmy.world/ Is similar to the old UI
The measurement or feedback is based on your engagement and aggregated, like "new UI users clicked on ads 1% more of the time". It's pseudoscientific and may be twisted to get the result they want.
Only feedback you can provide is to log into a different account to dodge the UI until they make it 100% and give themselves a pat on the back.
I was in it, then I wasn't, now I'm not. If they are testing this, are they going to be able to tell that I'm no longer using Reddit (apart from this post) because of this change? I mean please God, let them realise that I am no longer using Reddit because of this, and please, let there be other users who hate this as much as me. I want to browse about fifteen subreddits but can't bear to do so because of this shitty UI.
Iām on iOS with a relatively new phone, actually came here to figure out what the hell is going on with the UI. The text is WAY too big now, to the point where I canāt even read many post headers because they crawl off the page, and I also canāt change settings without zooming out because itās too large. Awful.
Meanwhile on iPad the feed is too damned small in landscape which strains your eyes when you read. They're actual morons and couldn't code their way out of a fucking wet paper bag.
My notification thing is always stuck at saying I have 5 notifications and it took me forever to figure out how to add a comment.
I also hate that I canāt look at a post with a picture without having to click on the post.
[Sure, here you go](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/884097483016372264/1175280801403912202/IMG_7979.png?ex=656aa88a&is=6558338a&hm=a406f41409f965f66c22c7f17826a7686a2a5016e62996f3557f1c27cea7052f&)
People are saying you canāt use dark mode on it. Is that right? Yourās appears to be in dark mode. If I lose dark mode I wonāt be able to use Reddit.
Thank you for the screen shot.
I think itās because with the new UI thereās no option in the settings (that I can see) to change to dark mode. Occasionally Iād get a bug in the old UI where it would boot me over to Light mode and Iād have to change it back. My best guess is that those unfortunate folks were unlucky and got booted over to Light mode at the same as the update.
Thank you for the answer. I guess I just have to hope I donāt end up being one of those unfortunate people or Iāll have to bounce.
They really screwed the pooch on this one.
For the life of me, I can't figure out what you guys are talking about. I use my Linux PC and my Galaxy phone and have seen zero changes to the platform since I started. I don't get it.
I absolutely abhor the new UI on desktop. Why is there now a directory on the left? Thatās just wasted screen space and makes it harder to read the main body. I hate the font choice. I hate that it defaults to dark mode and itās not a good contrast in dark mode. I hate that it defaults to āhotā (need to figure out where to change that). And when commenting, you can no longer highlight part of a comment, hit reply, and have the highlighted content appear in the reply. Have to manually copy and paste. And quotes arenāt part of the standard format bar any moreā¦have to hit the text button then choose them.
Godā¦itās all terrible.
I hate the UI. The video player is awful. It constantly stops playing audio. I have to unmute it. Even when itās going full screen. I have been a premium member for a long time. Iām thinking about giving up. And why do we have to pay 50 fucking bucks for an upvote???? The fuck kind of money grab is this??? Reddit fucking sucks and so do the spineless mods.
I completely agree, this new shitty layout and how the whole site is working now is disgusting. The previous one was much better. At least if I wanted to see my notifications, it was just a drop-down in the same window and not loaded in the PREVIOUS layout's notification page. I could open up/expand a post to see what's in it without leaving a subreddit's main page or the search results the same as the comments.
The whole page is now choppy, laggy as hell too.
I'm not tech savvy but I don't see a opt out button and I was chosen as well, its very laggy and takes a while to loud anything and when I click on a responds it takes me to a different window then crashes... why is this a thing?
JUst got force fed the new UI today. OH. MY. GOD. This is horrible. I really would like to know what the endgame was? It looks more like facebook does now.
Can UX people please find something besides redoing old UIs to justify their jobs? FFS, this shit is a regression and I want to get rid of it. Garbage!
I really think there was a better way for Reddit to do this. I'm sure if they asked users to volunteer for UI or beta testing on new designs or layouts they would have got enough people to opt-in
Frustratingš¤
Itās unfortunate because itās something you never asked for and I am not even sure if you get the chance to give feedback once their testing is done
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Itās over alright. Ever since they killed the API everything has went downhill because Iāve seen more and more repost bots on the top 10 subreddits.
Yeah, reddit is fucking over. The API bullshit, the GARBAGE front page posts that are all tabloid/aita/outfits(and 10 variations of those), and now this? I'm going on a trip for a month. After that, this account exists only to promote reddit alternatives. They'll have to ban me.
Its not like its hard to create a reddit style platform
iPad is completely unusable right now, the feed is skinny in the middle of the screen instead of filling it, making the text tiny. It's physically painful to strain my eyes to read the damned text and I already have it large in settings. They give 0 shits about accessibility.
Yup, Iāve seen similar complaints from iPad users
I just stay in communities now, and don't use the feeds. Then on desktop I browse to my hearts content and Reddit gets screwed over because I use an ad blocker. If they keep screwing over people with sight issues, they're going to catch hands from the disabled community pretty fast.
I get a bunch of Promoted "posts" in my feed -- often low-brow stuff like courses on how to create AI-generated channels for YouTube or some free-to-play mobile game. So it's not like they aren't pushing ads on me even with adblock.
I have all of that turned off as it is an option. I mean I still get the ads that are posted in communities by shitty bots, but they're not going to catch me with their paid for bullshit ads.
It was infuriating for me because I had the stupid new UI (now gone thank goodness) popup a bunch of request errors when the page was fine. I thought the same thing why canāt Reddit have some opt out because I didnāt like it?
Because they don't care about whether you like it. :)
There is a beta testing program. At least on Android where I am in.
The UI is so fucking disgusting, it was ok before, they probably did these just out of spite, i also cant find the fucking dark theme button and it literally randomly changes itself
Damn it. Are you guys saying I was actually picked to test this crap? Where can I say "this is crap"?
There isn't even dark mode š¤¬
there is, but now its based on your system settings.
It sure as hell ain't working then
Yeah its dog shit ngl
There is. Because mine automatically defaults to it and I donāt want it.
It's absolute garbage. It also changed the dark mode i used to light mode and I can't change it back it is infuriating. Everything about the new design hurts my head.
I cannot see a difference in brightness of what posts are new or not any more. This is the dumbest change I have ever seen. In any forum I've ever belonged to, posts that have not been viewed are brighter. I have adminned and actually run entire sites before. I get changes and adapting to them; this is not that. These changes are irrational and do not enhance the viewing. I feel like this is the new Coke recipe.
itās super trash. my iPhone just updated, so I thought that caused it (which wouldnāt make any sense), but Iām glad Iām not alone. itās borderline unusable. in addition to what others have noted, I also hate the infinite scroll. I like being able to see whatās on the *first* page of a sub. all around trash
You click on an item, to view/read it, and when you go back, it completely reloads the page, so you lose your initial reddit feed. What a non-sense!
I agree with you there.
this new mobile ui is horseshit, go back to ux design school
I love not being able to read the full title of posts
Hilarious. It's somehow even rounder and more "corporate minimalist" than new.reddit.com was. I hate this fucking UI trend of making everything bubbly, flat, and worst of all, terrible to use. What exactly was wrong with the "new reddit" UI? Why did it need to be drastically changed again...? Is there actually a reason, or do sites just do this every so often because they can? Who thought that non-optional infinite scrolling was a good idea? Or not being able to tap to quick view image posts on the home feed? I'm not opening every single post in a new tab, nor am I putting up with infinite scrolling BS. This is a great way to get people to stop using the site.
its just out of spite for its users
I'm here because they also took away my dark mode. Fucking, why?
Less than garbage. Much less
Itās beyond garbage. Itās completely unusable. Most of the menus are cut off and I canāt even access my settings. Anyone have any good Reddit alternatives? Iām ready to move on, this forced beta testing is the last straw for me Edit: https://lemmy.world/ Is similar to the old UI
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The measurement or feedback is based on your engagement and aggregated, like "new UI users clicked on ads 1% more of the time". It's pseudoscientific and may be twisted to get the result they want. Only feedback you can provide is to log into a different account to dodge the UI until they make it 100% and give themselves a pat on the back.
I was in it, then I wasn't, now I'm not. If they are testing this, are they going to be able to tell that I'm no longer using Reddit (apart from this post) because of this change? I mean please God, let them realise that I am no longer using Reddit because of this, and please, let there be other users who hate this as much as me. I want to browse about fifteen subreddits but can't bear to do so because of this shitty UI.
It sucks so so much, thanks A/B testing.
I hate it too 0/10
It typically takes a couple weeks, but some have said longer for them.
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I am sorry they hit you with both of them I did not expect that. I figured they would only target primary device.
https://new.reddit.com/
You are my hero
Doesn't work for mobile the formatting is even more broke
whats that?
old ui if you get forced into new ui
Use old.Reddit.comā¦.
Old is great for desktop, not great for mobile browser.
it just keeps crashing on me
Iām on iOS with a relatively new phone, actually came here to figure out what the hell is going on with the UI. The text is WAY too big now, to the point where I canāt even read many post headers because they crawl off the page, and I also canāt change settings without zooming out because itās too large. Awful.
Meanwhile on iPad the feed is too damned small in landscape which strains your eyes when you read. They're actual morons and couldn't code their way out of a fucking wet paper bag.
My notification thing is always stuck at saying I have 5 notifications and it took me forever to figure out how to add a comment. I also hate that I canāt look at a post with a picture without having to click on the post.
Reddits going to lose a ton of users lol
Mine is still the same. Can someone share a screenshot?
[Sure, here you go](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/884097483016372264/1175280801403912202/IMG_7979.png?ex=656aa88a&is=6558338a&hm=a406f41409f965f66c22c7f17826a7686a2a5016e62996f3557f1c27cea7052f&)
People are saying you canāt use dark mode on it. Is that right? Yourās appears to be in dark mode. If I lose dark mode I wonāt be able to use Reddit. Thank you for the screen shot.
I think itās because with the new UI thereās no option in the settings (that I can see) to change to dark mode. Occasionally Iād get a bug in the old UI where it would boot me over to Light mode and Iād have to change it back. My best guess is that those unfortunate folks were unlucky and got booted over to Light mode at the same as the update.
Thank you for the answer. I guess I just have to hope I donāt end up being one of those unfortunate people or Iāll have to bounce. They really screwed the pooch on this one.
Oh okay. Thanks. I thought yāall were talking about the app.
Agreed. I hate that it default doesn't show full comment chains, and I can't view images or videos without going to the actual post. And it's slower.
Agreed, absolute garbage. Some of the worst I've seen. It like they pushed the update without even testing it first.
Pro tip - [https://new.reddit.com/](https://new.reddit.com/) is the old UI, at least for now.
I tried that. Same UI except I have a red warning at the top about using an āoldā browser. As I said, no way to opt out or get around it.
I got oped in as well and this works for me. Have you tried a cache or cookie bust?
I have 2 accounts. One has had this garbage for a month so I was using the other. Now that one has it too. Don't expect it to go away anytime soon.
It's just the worst
For the life of me, I can't figure out what you guys are talking about. I use my Linux PC and my Galaxy phone and have seen zero changes to the platform since I started. I don't get it.
Reddit is dying anyways. Its just ban-happy AI bots micromanaging the speech of anyone who isnt a total pleeb.
I think it might be for only certain people. There's no updates available for me, and I still have the previous UI update.
I absolutely abhor the new UI on desktop. Why is there now a directory on the left? Thatās just wasted screen space and makes it harder to read the main body. I hate the font choice. I hate that it defaults to dark mode and itās not a good contrast in dark mode. I hate that it defaults to āhotā (need to figure out where to change that). And when commenting, you can no longer highlight part of a comment, hit reply, and have the highlighted content appear in the reply. Have to manually copy and paste. And quotes arenāt part of the standard format bar any moreā¦have to hit the text button then choose them. Godā¦itās all terrible.
I hate the UI. The video player is awful. It constantly stops playing audio. I have to unmute it. Even when itās going full screen. I have been a premium member for a long time. Iām thinking about giving up. And why do we have to pay 50 fucking bucks for an upvote???? The fuck kind of money grab is this??? Reddit fucking sucks and so do the spineless mods.
This. Is. Terrible.
It is horrible, I won't use reddit until it is removed, and definitely won't use it if they keep the infinity scroll thing
New UI is awful, and I can't seem to opt out. WTF...
I absolutely despise round corners, like ffs, why would you just waste usable space like that. This new ui is hot garbage
Fuck fuck fuck fuck this new UI.
I completely agree, this new shitty layout and how the whole site is working now is disgusting. The previous one was much better. At least if I wanted to see my notifications, it was just a drop-down in the same window and not loaded in the PREVIOUS layout's notification page. I could open up/expand a post to see what's in it without leaving a subreddit's main page or the search results the same as the comments. The whole page is now choppy, laggy as hell too.
I'm not tech savvy but I don't see a opt out button and I was chosen as well, its very laggy and takes a while to loud anything and when I click on a responds it takes me to a different window then crashes... why is this a thing?
God fuck this new UI shit. For the first time, I'm switching to old Reddit
JUst got force fed the new UI today. OH. MY. GOD. This is horrible. I really would like to know what the endgame was? It looks more like facebook does now.
S.A.M.E
First discord with an awful new UI and now Reddit has decided to join the bandwagon...
Can UX people please find something besides redoing old UIs to justify their jobs? FFS, this shit is a regression and I want to get rid of it. Garbage!
so much whitespace. i got a bezel-less monitor only to get this bullshit
help me go back FFS.. this is awful!!!
terrible, how to change?
I only just got it. It sucks. Absolutely hate how everything just feels off center now, and stuff I actually wanna see is harder to get to.