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.
“Forced” is a really weird way to describe it. Companies redesign their physical and virtual spaces all the time and people [edit: usually] don’t react like it’s an act of violence.
Funny thing is, they do. Our company’s app is in the middle of redesign. Previously the “design” was made by programmers just making it work and not really caring that much about visuals. Now there’s actual vision and concept behind the new design and yet we’ve already got some complaints. People always treat redesigns like a personal insult.
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.
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.
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🤦♂️
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).
It’s fair in a way though, if someone has invested time and effort into developing a workflow using a tool then the hammer company come and say 'we’re talking away the solid handle and replacing it with a soft one then of course you’ll be angry.
The worst is when they make things look like bad science fiction by moving everything into awkward places and wasting 90% of my screen with dumb looking polish that does nothing but slow performance and add bugs.
Because you take away their safe space. I went through this with every major Firefox redesign. Then i spend several hours trying to reverse the changes through css.
When its bad enough they do… hell a redesign is what killed Digg (arguments that it was already falling off aside) and new reddit is pretty dogshit.
Facebook helped establish the smaller more frequent changes as the norm vs the “redesign” from the older days.
Yes they definitely do, I remember when Facebook moved to timeline and everyone went ape shit.
Is it? In the past Reddit took strides to make the “classic” version available to users who wanted it (old.reddit).
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.