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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 Skebaba at 26/08/2024 at 22:59 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Also 7. You can't quote by painting over the text & hitting Reply.
Comment by peenfortress at 29/08/2024 at 01:48 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
the motivation? boosting interactions is probably it
you cant tell if something was likely posted by a bot / very new account at a glance by just *looking* who posted it, instead requiring you to interact with a post and open it fully to see more than just the sub it was in :/
Comment by gaojibao at 02/09/2024 at 22:01 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You're welcome