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New Reddit is nothing like Facebook. There is no discernible difference for day to day use bar a more modern visual style.
Comment by Klathmon at 02/04/2020 at 12:31 UTC*
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Except there are functional differences, quite a lot actually.
So say for example I want to view your comment, and the 2 comments that you are replying to at the same time!
First i'll open the permalink to your comment in new reddit, then i click "show parent comments", this is what I see[1]. Your comment is gone, nowhere to be found.
1: https://imgur.com/a/BdrIpqV
So i click "view entire discussion", and it does literally nothing. This is the view after clicking "view entire discussion"[2].
2: https://imgur.com/a/9zBCyHK
So then i click "continue this thread" to maybe see your comment again? lol nope[3]. it shows me all the children to that comment. Oh, and the grandparent comment is gone!
3: https://imgur.com/a/5WQKnSd
But if I collapse the comment sibling above you, I get this view[4]. Still can't see the parent comment!
4: https://imgur.com/a/flvt6q4
So I guess I'll try to click "show parent comment again"? Oh hey we are finally getting somewhere[5]!
5: https://imgur.com/a/odUdZdy
So I collapse the sibling comment above yours, and I finally have the view I've wanted!
Now let's say I wanted to share this with a friend. So i copy and paste the url, and when they open it, this is what they see[6]. Oh you thought the URL would show you the same stuff as me? how silly of you!
6: https://imgur.com/a/H3hEmaH
Now try to hit "continue this thread" (after clicking "view entire discussion" which again does nothing except allow me to click "continue this thread") and you are back at my second image up top.
I swear that this is engineered to be difficult to actually use. Why do so many of the views require me to click "view entire discussion" to see the last line of the comment? Why does "view entire discussion" not show me the entire discussion? Why does it take 6 steps to see more than 2 comments at a time?
For the hell of it, I clicked "view all comments", and this is the view i get[7]... Are you fucking kidding me? 2 comments are "all comments"? It's not even the full 2 comments, it's like 1.5 because the end of the last one is cut off by that fucking button.
7: https://imgur.com/a/soIgu3b
Maybe I need to click "view entire discussion" again? Oh hey that worked![8], but only top level comments, none of the replies are shown... I need to click on every single comment to show the replies to it?
8: https://imgur.com/a/60GqUDp
How is that better? How is that "no discernible difference"?