Comment by Nastypilot on 18/12/2023 at 23:23 UTC

19 upvotes, 6 direct replies (showing 6)

View submission: December Changelog: Topics in Header + Live Chat Post Sunset

What the fuck happened to the desktop UI, this is an atrocity

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Comment by scormegatron at 19/12/2023 at 23:06 UTC*

15 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Can't believe there aren't more threads on this!?!? So many efficiencies have been stripped away, off the top of my head...

• The profile menu -- I can't even click into my profile anymore!
• Individual posts -- The "close" button is gone
• Individual threads -- Can no longer click the thread-line to collapse
• List of joined subs -- Is just permanently visible, taking up real estate
• The alerts menu icon -- now it navigates to a page when you click it -- the inline experience was much more efficient
• Often the page won't scroll -- at all
• If the wysiwyg is full of a large block of text that stretches it below the viewable window, you often can't scroll down to the save button

I'm sure I'll get used to this stuff, but it would have been nice if these changes were dripped as small releases -- rather than just a massive jarring update.

And where even is the overview on the new update? Is there nobody in product marketing over there???

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Edit: And now (1/23/2024) the old UI has returned? Thank you.

Comment by [deleted] at 20/12/2023 at 16:27 UTC

6 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Right, it's so bad. I thought I was taking crazy pills not seeing others complain about it. On a 13" macbook , you can see exactly 3 posts at a time. What a piece of shit app. It makes it impossible to quickly scan for interesting posts.

Comment by SocklessRensen at 19/12/2023 at 18:13 UTC

3 upvotes, 2 direct replies

agreed. hoping someone figures out how to revert it.

Comment by tfhermobwoayway at 03/02/2024 at 04:43 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I’m sure they had a very enlightening seminar by a Silicon Valley business student who’s never touched a computer in his life on how to make the perfect futuristic UI and they all lapped it right up.

Comment by Mdsolaiiman22 at 06/04/2024 at 10:00 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

good

Comment by IZY_98 at 15/04/2024 at 11:37 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I've been using reddit on mobile for last couple of months (which is a painful struggle in itself) and came back today to desktop version only to be greeted by this confisung mess.

I will never get it why they feel the need to change perfectly working stuff, e.g. the sorting buttons, the new post functionality, sidebar; just why? What have improved? Who wanted this?