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View submission: Announcing Remove as a Subreddit
This is my mod account, I actually have an account made in 2015, but barely used it because reddit was confusing. I then came back in 2019, and it was extremely easy and cool to use.
Comment by SpeaksDwarren at 16/08/2022 at 23:43 UTC
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Old reddit isn't confusing at all, I literally switched to this website because the UI was so clean and efficient compared to most forums I was using. It was extremely simple with easy CSS integration if you wanted to make it look cooler. Now it's full of useless garbage like an avatar maker.
Comment by fdagpigj at 16/08/2022 at 19:30 UTC
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yeah. I will agree the old reddit was kinda confusing but after I learnt how to use it, it's extremely efficient. Everything I need is on screen and almost nothing I don't is. All the actions I use are available in 1 click (or 2 if it needs confirmation) and no whitespace is hijacked so just because I'm used to randomly clicking around doesn't mean I'll be redirected. The pages are fast to load and the content is presented compactly without being too small to make out. There is no infinite scroll so all the less commonly used links are easy to find at the bottom of the page and there's no way I'll accidentally waste hours on reddit scrolling through my front page, I even changed the default posts per page limit to 10 from the default 25 recently to reduce time I waste on the site but I can still trivially change the URL query parameters to change it on a page by page basis. There's no flashy animations or anything suddenly moving on screen to distract me. Custom CSS makes it trivial to tell different subreddits apart and allows moderators to express their creativity almost unbounded. I can even use the site on a CLI web browser if I want. Every user is just a pseudonym and their text, there are no images or anything of the kind to draw attention away from their arguments. Everything just works smoothly and efficiently without giving me headaches (although I'd appreciate a dark mode now that I've gotten used to all other sites having one, but if I wanted to I could trivially change the default background colour with a CSS addon).