https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1ehmgmr/next_steps_for_newredditcom/
created by CorrectScale on 01/08/2024 at 17:27 UTC
0 upvotes, 431 top-level comments (showing 25)
Hey folks,
In case you missed it, we introduced a new web platform[1] earlier this year, which is now available to all users. Historically, users have been able to force new.reddit.com on their browsers as a workaround to access the previous web platform, but we will be removing support for this routing going forward. From now on, URLs containing new.reddit.com will route you to those same pages on our new platform.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1c6fqwi/what_were_working_on_in_2024/
This change will allow us to focus on developing new features and making improvements to reddit.com, rather than maintaining multiple versions of Reddit that are no longer being developed. Please note that you may still have access to a few pages on new.reddit.com, but expect them to migrate onto the new web platform soon. If you experience any issues using the latest web experience, please share your feedback here in r/help or report technical issues in r/bugs.
For moderators, you will still have access to new.reddit.com via your mod accounts until all mod tools have been moved to the latest web platform. We’ll be sure to inform you of any updates to mod tools. We want to assure you that we do not have plans to remove old Reddit. You can still access that by setting your preferences[2] or via old.reddit.com.
2: https://old.reddit.com/prefs#beta
Please drop a comment below if you have any questions!
Comment by flyfoam at 01/08/2024 at 22:27 UTC
280 upvotes, 6 direct replies
This stinks, I can't stand this new interface, it reminds me of Facebook. Each post takes up like half the screen on the desktop. Now I have to scroll a huge amount to see more posts. I don't understand these developers at time what kind of bubble they live in thinking most are going to like this new interface.
Comment by Anforas at 01/08/2024 at 22:48 UTC
171 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Thanks for continuing ruining Reddit 💪
Comment by Competitive_Talk6356 at 01/08/2024 at 22:31 UTC
163 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I HATE it, I want access to the old new.reddit.com[1] website. I hate this new redesign, the dark theme is AWFUL.
Comment by Fatter_Design at 02/08/2024 at 00:22 UTC
126 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Roll it back please, the new layout is garbage.
Comment by Scavgraphics at 01/08/2024 at 22:29 UTC
116 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Oh good.. I was afraid I was going to get to continue to use my whole screen forever! Thank g-d I am now forced to waste 2/3's of my screen with worthless columns that have no UX benefit!
Hopefully you've gotten rid of that useful "highlight to quote in your reply" feature. I hate my discussion forums being too easy to, you know, discuss things on.
Comment by evilmark443 at 02/08/2024 at 00:19 UTC
95 upvotes, 2 direct replies
This is infuriating tbh, the 2024 UI update is hideous but old.reddit is a bit TOO old looking for my tastes ... with the Chrome extensions that automatically used new.reddit now effectively broken I think I'll just abandon Reddit altogether, most communities have a Discord these days anyway.
Comment by ShAfTsWoLo at 01/08/2024 at 23:39 UTC*
82 upvotes, 3 direct replies
WHY !!! WHY DID YOU DO THIS ???!!! ... this UI is complete garbage for PC... oh well, time for me to reduce my time spent on reddit by at least 80%
Comment by d8gfdu89fdgfdu32432 at 01/08/2024 at 22:51 UTC
76 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Why can you maintain old Reddit but not new.reddit.com?
Comment by gaojibao at 01/08/2024 at 22:39 UTC*
73 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I can't fully express how much I hate this new UI. This new UI makes everything hard to read. Text is either too bright or too dim. Perhaps it has something to do with the blueish background, I don't know https://imgur.com/a/jmEUNvn[1][2]
1: https://imgur.com/a/jmEUNvn
2: https://imgur.com/a/jmEUNvn
Sometimes you can't even tell if a comment was posted a minute ago or a month ago https://imgur.com/AhWieu4[3][4]
Comment by Orcao at 02/08/2024 at 03:07 UTC
61 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Why was this not a notification?
Why is this not reflected in the reddit changelog?
Why did you decide to make this site unusable?
Comment by floridorito at 02/08/2024 at 00:50 UTC
59 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Thanks. I HATE IT.
On the plus side, since I'll be using reddit less, I'll have more free time for more productive things.
Comment by Kahzgul at 02/08/2024 at 01:12 UTC
60 upvotes, 0 direct replies
new new reddit absolutely sucks. A huge amount of screen real estate is taken up by sidebars I don't need. Images and video don't compress vertically so I have to scroll endlessly. The whole thing is SLOW compared to old and old new reddit. I'm exceptionally disappointed. New new should be in the wastebin and you should be making old new less buggy rather than the other way around.
Comment by Fofolito at 02/08/2024 at 01:02 UTC
50 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Adding my "This UI is hot garbage, you know we all hate it, and we know you're going to ignore us" comment because I hate this UI and its hot garbage.
You're going to ignore us though, Reddit, so this is my screaming into the void.
Comment by NYYankeePride at 01/08/2024 at 22:56 UTC
38 upvotes, 2 direct replies
A couple of things that kept me from using the newest version that I really hope someone can address and answer.
1. On the new.reddit.com[1] workaround it would show titles of threads that I've previous read as gray. This helped to know that I had already clicked on those threads. This was very helpful in popular subreddits where I would sort by new and then I would know where I last left off because the title was grey indicating it was a link I had previously accessed. There is no option for that in the newest version and I have no way of knowing if I previously opened a particular thread unless I remember doing so. This missing feature alone makes me not even want to bother with Reddit at all anymore.
2. Why is the new version sooo sllooooowww. It takes forever for pages to load compared to the previous version.
3. Okay I know I said a couple of things but one more. In the "Card View" if there is a thread with an image it's way too big and the image takes up the whole screen. It makes the site so much worse.
Comment by azurstarshine at 02/08/2024 at 02:43 UTC*
35 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The new interface is garbage.
1. It's cluttered, constantly completely full of things that are totally irrelevant to what I'm doing, and presents much less information in the space available. It's also lacking in terms of using space and other markers to clearly distinguish between separate items.
2. On the rare occasion where I actually want something in the side bars, getting to any of the lower items is unnecessarily difficult because they scroll
separately from the rest of the page. Users who never saw the older interface probably won't even realize those lower items even exist.
1. The text box is broken when you click edit; it starts off just showing *two lines* of text until you type something and then magically grows to show the post once you do.
2. This interface lacks the "in between" mode for displaying a community's list of posts; you're either forced into the "compact" mode that doesn't give any useful preview because it's too small or the "card" mode that makes each one take up so much space that you can only see 2 on your screen at a time.
3. The notification drop down doesn't scroll, so I can only see 2.5 notifications without going to an entirely separate page.
4. Clicking on a notification opens the linked post in the current tab/window, and right clicking and opening it in a new tab doesn't mark it as read. "Mark all as read" has never worked in my experience, but I haven't tried it recently.
Address those problems before taking away the interface that's actually decent.
What was even the motivation for this redesign? The previous interface was fine. There wasn't a problem to solve here unless it's because the UI team needed some busy work to justify keeping their jobs.
Comment by bust4cap at 02/08/2024 at 05:48 UTC
35 upvotes, 0 direct replies
clear downgrade on pc...
Comment by loudfrat at 01/08/2024 at 22:37 UTC
69 upvotes, 4 direct replies
this latest version looks terrible, do u even listen to what the community is saying? why do u enforce this on us?
Comment by Orcao at 01/08/2024 at 23:37 UTC*
34 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The new new layout is terrible. Compared to the old new layout (thanks naming conventions) there's less than half the posts shown at any given point in time in new compact mode. The spacing is awful. There's just so much dead space, and yet it somehow feels cluttered. Maintaining the new. subdomain allowed us to circumvent this awful change, getting rid of it is just a slap in the face. Guess it's time to go back to old.
I guess you wanted questions in the comment. Why did you actively decide to make the site worse?
Comment by Dzaka at 02/08/2024 at 03:30 UTC
31 upvotes, 1 direct replies
y'all at reddit do know that this change possibly violates ADA guidelines since visual disability help addon's on browsers used the new.reddit.com[1] layout to work
sooo... i'm expecting lawsuits soon
Comment by unknown_11854 at 01/08/2024 at 23:39 UTC
28 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Why remove new.reddit and not old.reddit? You said you didn't want to be "maintaining multiple versions of Reddit that are no longer being developed", and I'm pretty sure old.reddit is considered a version of reddit that is no longer being developed.
Comment by Mzingalwa at 02/08/2024 at 00:59 UTC
29 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This layout sucks. I didn't want to go back to old.reddit, but I guess you're giving me no choice. Thanks for nothing.
Comment by [deleted] at 02/08/2024 at 02:43 UTC
26 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'll drop a comment because I have a question....
Whose dumb idea was this? Always thinking you're reinventing the wheel when you're really just making more work.
So instead of having everything neatly right at the top, now we have to scroll down through a separate scroll bar, and now we've got 3 columns crammed on a page. That's some genius. /s
Comment by Professional-Key5552 at 02/08/2024 at 07:24 UTC
26 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Give us new.reddit back. The 3rd UI is catastrophical. Who made this?
Comment by Tooluka at 02/08/2024 at 08:04 UTC
27 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Wow. I'm impressed at your persistence in ruining Reddit interface. Did your EiAi created it?:) Or a blind person? Do you seriously think that there is anyone on this planet who likes it?
Comment by tumultuousness at 01/08/2024 at 18:07 UTC
21 upvotes, 3 direct replies
As an old reddit user, the main reason I check new.reddit now is because "other discussions" is still broken. It's a bit easier for me to use toolbox's button to open a thread in new reddit, to see the other discussions, then to go edit the url from www to old.