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View submission: Out with 2016, in with 2017
No. This is a terrible idea and will ruin reddit, just like Digg's final redesign did in 2010.
Modern design trends are pure garbage and harm usability. Excessive empty space, oversized fonts, boring overly simplistic visuals, unlabeled buttons and menus hidden behind vague icons, lack of useful and obvious functionality, performance-killing bloat, and so on. It looks bad and even worse, actually removes core features and ignores every basic UI standard. This crap belongs on mobile, not on desktop. reddit's current design is good precisely because it hasn't caved into these terrible looks-over-function fads, which don't even look good to begin with. Hopefully the redesign won't happen, or if it does, it won't look like the current modmail/u/spez[1]beta.
Comment by Probablynotclever at 02/03/2017 at 04:24 UTC
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These are the naysayers of whom I was speaking. Test, test, test and ignore unreasonable demands.
Also Digg didn't fall because it's design changes. It did because it's entire submission model changed.