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When are you finally going to address the **godawful** desktop user experience of new reddit? There's constantly new features and glitz and glamour, and I know you are trying to profit off of the mobile market mostly now, and I don't really blame you because you have to stay profitable and relevant. But please remember your desktop origins. I actually quite like new reddit on desktop, which might put me in the minority among desktop users. But you are kind of pissing on Old and New reddit users either way, without even giving us the courtesy of calling it rain.
Just some random examples that come to mind:
- I click a link to a vid post, and the vid restarts again and again for 5 to 10 seconds before actually continuing playing, what the hell is up with that?
- If I'm lucky enough and the video finally plays, it turns to potato quality after 5 seconds. And the worst part, there's absolutely no way to up that quality. **Once potato, always potato**.
- Endless scrolling. Great! I like it! Really! But only if it **actually worked**. Half the time I'm scrolling, and then reddit just randomly stops loading new posts, and I cannot scroll further. Do you want to get me off of reddit? Because that's how you get me off of reddit.
- Talking about endless scrolling. I'm opening a post in your fancy modal windows or whatever that is. Great! But please let me return to where I was before! Half the time, you are scrolling me back to the very top after leaving the modal. If that's the case and you cannot handle endless scrolling, then please reintroduce pages.
- Copy & Paste in comment boxes? Noooo, we don't need that apparently. Whenever I try to paste something in a comment box on desktop, it completely **bricks** the whole thing. Cannot edit or type or whatever anymore.
Again, I'm a desktop user and I actually really like new reddit on desktop. But the past couple of years, the desktop experience kind of seems to be an afterthought from you guys, which is super disappointing. I know my comment/rant will probably die in new, but at least I just wanted to put this out there in case some other desktop users feel the same.
Comment by foamed at 11/09/2021 at 07:59 UTC
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When are you finally going to address the godawful desktop user experience of new reddit? There's constantly new features and glitz and glamour, and I know you are trying to profit off of the mobile market mostly now, and I don't really blame you because you have to stay profitable and relevant. But please remember your desktop origins.
They don't care, because they are working towards going public[1].
1: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/technology/reddit-new-funding.html
The latest funding wasn’t planned, but “Fidelity made us an offer that we couldn’t refuse,” Steve Huffman, Reddit’s co-founder and chief executive, said in an interview.
The company then decided the capital would give it more time to decide on when — and how — to go public. “We are still planning on going public, but we don’t have a firm timeline there yet,” Mr. Huffman said. “All good companies should go public when they can.”
Comment by Norma5tacy at 11/09/2021 at 02:22 UTC
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I know you want vanilla Reddit to be good but honestly Reddit without RES is just not great. Also the video problem is probably because their video player is absolute garbage.
Comment by boa13 at 10/09/2021 at 21:59 UTC
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Some more feedback: I also suffer from the "vid restart" issue, and the broken copy/paste is maddening!
However, I do not have the potato quality issue, and rarely encounter the endless scroll that stops working. This may be related to your network quality.
Comment by Overgrown_fetus1305 at 11/09/2021 at 01:23 UTC
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Oh, have noticed the copy paste issue myself on desktop (I don't use Reddit on mobile), and it's maddening. I tend to both do a fair bit of quotations when debating politics; as sourcing quotations or bullet pointing the things I want to respond to are both cases that I need to do this for semi regularly. More to the point, if I'm dropping a comment on r/learnmath and want to use the symbols in the sidebar, then I keep needing to flip back and forth between markdown mode and fancy pants editor so I can both paste symbols and also superscripts, and it definitely slows me down doing this- plus I'm spending as much time thinking about formatting and making sure my comments don't get chopped in half as I am about how to explain the problem, if it's the sort of maths that needs that.