I tend to use Reddit mostly on my phone, though, so that probably has something to do with it. The actual mobile site is so forceful about getting you to use the app that they clearly don’t want the site used on mobile anyway.Ĭontroversial point, I know.
Because there’s no good reason for the site to look at act like a mobile app on a PC. It doesn’t make any meaningful improvements it’s just meant to give a facade of user-friendly design because that’s what’s marketable in trying to turn this site into more of a literal social media thing. It’s chunky, it rearranges stuff that was fine before, it’s aesthetically unpleasing and offers less customization, and worst of all it’s totally needless. The new reddit loads the framework for the page first and then tries to load the content, but sometimes it gets hung up and it takes longer to load than the old reddit does. I don’t want 40 percent of my monitor being eaten up by a sidebar and another 30% on each post. 
Old Reddit is nice and compact, and on bigger monitors, that means more efficient use of space. Reminds me of old iTunes vs the current builds. They literally made navigation more difficult. New reddit isn’t very desktop friendly. Not being able to have a banner and side bar just makes everything look generic. #ON OFF REDDIT MODS#
I can understand why they did it – there’s the possibility that mods will remove the ad frames – but the way it’s handled is terrible.
The new Reddit design just looks like a mobile app that’s been ported to desktop, there’s way too much empty space on the sides of a post, and never mind the fact that it completely strips a subreddit’s ability to be unique with CSS. Here’s a collection of just a few of the comments made by Reddit members post design switch. 
Is peoples’ disdain for the new-look Reddit simply down to them not liking change, or is there more to it? Obviously, the best place to find the answer to this question is Reddit itself. Using old Reddit removes all the new UX features of the latest Reddit design, a design that many hardcore users aren’t too happy about. Your profile details in the top right, and all the most recent posts from Reddit in the central portion of the screen. You have a list of all your subreddits up top, on the left. Once you’re inside Old Reddit, it works just like before.
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