Comment by pawbeans40 on 16/12/2024 at 11:41 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies (showing 1)

View submission: Weekly Recap | December 12, 2024

I have been really trying to get used to this New UI, but it's just been so problematic for me. Here are the issues I'm experiencing:

• *1.** The font is way too thin and the size is too small...I get headaches and eye strain on here now. I usually have my zoom set to 80%-90% for everything online...because I have a small screen, I find 100% fills up the screen too much, but I have to go to 100% to read comments on here, and then I have to go back down again to scroll through my feed, which is kind of a hassle. I didn't have to do that before.

• *2.** Too much white on the page...also gives me eye strain and headaches. The posts should be separated better from the background like they were on new.reddit.

• *3.** The images take up too much real estate. Most are vertical photos, and there are large blurred borders on either side of the image taking up a lot of space. I don't want smaller photos, but the frame around them is just too large and unnecessary.

• *4.** The site is super laggy. Scrolling down my feed, it will get stuck and take forever to load the posts and photos. Or clicking through the photo slides takes a while too. Or opening up a post takes a while to load and fully populate. I did not have that issue on new.reddit ever, nor do I have that issue on any other social media site or website.

• *5.** The spoiler block is stark black now...way too harsh on the eyes. It used to be a nice charcoal gray. Sure, you are going to click it to read and then it goes away, but opening up a comments page that has a lot of the spoiler blocks on them (for some games), makes it a bit of a nightmare to look at.

• *6.** I prefer seeing the upvote button next to the title of the posts in my feed like it used to be. It seems too hard to see where it sits now under the post (and it's smaller now too).

• *POSSIBLE BUG #1:** When I upvote a post or a comment, I get "Internal Server Error" message and it won't take my upvote. This doesn't happen every time, but often enough. Never had this issue before.

• *POSSIBLE BUG#2:** When I post a comment, it just disappears after hitting enter. I try again, and I then see my first attempt and my new attempt...double posts. This seems to be random but it's pretty annoying. Never used to have this issue before.

My specs are as follows, if this is useful information:

Desktop version | Surface Pro5 tablet/laptop | Windows 10 | Firefox browser.

Also, I prefer the "Card View", and I use Light Mode (do not care for dark mode).

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Comment by TheOpusCroakus at 16/12/2024 at 14:40 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Hi! Thank you so much for all of this. It's very specific and I can take it to the correct teams for you.

In regard to the appearance issues (fonts, colors, etc), we are in the process of bringing in someone skilled in accessibility design, so they should be able to help in those areas.

I'm not sure why you're getting the server error. That's usually something I can fix, but I'm not seeing any issues on this end. Do you get that when you are using a different browser?

If you could get a screen recording of the comment disappearing, I would love to show that to the team in charge.