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TechCrunch mentions Lemmy / Kbin migration: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While it is certainly sad the direction that reddit is going, there is just a little bit of joy in watching the public meltdown after all the user hostile decisions they've made over the past few years.

There is not one single new feature added to reddit since before the redesign that has actually added value to the platform for a user.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The redesign made things worse and only worse:

Login walls for random communities
Actively user hostile mobile website that doesn't respect "use desktop site" and tries to funnel people into the app
Redesign and mobile app are bloated wastes of resources that do less than old.reddit but using several megabytes of Javascript, unusable with anything less than a stable 4G connection
Full of whitespace and rounded buttons that waste screen space, they expect everyone to have 1440p monitors to have a decent UI density

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Visually, I actually quite like the look of the redesign (on desktop at least; mobile's a whole other story). But it's so bloated that on my old laptop I could get maybe 10-15 minutes of browsing time before it used up all my ram and dragged my whole computer to a crawl. And it has a whole mess of bugs that make it almost unusable - it feels like someone's CS project rather than the front end of one of the largest sites on the web.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That last bit is the rub - if they'd made improvements with the main app or new interface, maybe I wouldn't want to use RIF... But they chose uber enshitification instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is a screenshot of the Reddit app I took about an hour ago. This was the second post from the top.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Of all the features added since I joined in 2018, only two I found truly useful, especially with the death of other sites. Gallery uploads and polls. That's it.

Everything else? Useless cruft or stuff that died out where that time and resources could've been used to fix new reddit and the app.