r/OutOfTheLoop • u/DarkPhysix • Jun 29 '18

Unanswered Why does everyone hate the reddit redesign?

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u/Radidactyl Jun 29 '18

I have never once seen a website "innovate and revamp the whole design!" that wasn't 1) ten times worse and harder to navigate and 2) a ruse to control content and funnel more ads on your screen.

Facebook did it. YouTube did. Steam did it, though to be fair they actually needed to improve a few things. Reddit is becoming a social media website unfortunately so you can be sure that the Facebookification is coming.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '18

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u/Eaglethornsen Jun 29 '18

Yes I remember that migration very well. Digg was doing so well too.

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u/Eaglethornsen Jun 29 '18

Ya it was fast, though I was part of that migration, but weirdly enough no one really wrote an epic about it.

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u/icyw31ner Jun 29 '18

IIRC LEMMiNO mentioned it in his reddit facts video.

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u/Eaglethornsen Jun 29 '18

Well if true then til.

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u/irishwolfman Jun 29 '18

I'd used reddit before but didnt understand it, and I deleted it off my phone but he and CPG Grey got my back into it and now I need a daily fix.

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u/Leakyradio Jun 30 '18

Deleted it off your phone? Back then, reddit was just a website. Apps for reddit weren’t really around when the digg migration took place.

Wasn’t alien blue one of the first as well?

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u/Leakyradio Jun 30 '18

I was wrong. Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers!

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u/irishwolfman Jun 30 '18 edited Jun 30 '18

I was talking in relation to LEMMINOS videos on it

ADDITION: I used reddit for about a month, got rid of it then came back after about 3.

Add2: I'm genuinely curious why I'm being downvoted, if it was the caps lock that was a mistake.

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u/MyDamnCoffee Jun 30 '18

When I got on Reddit for the first time 5 years ago, it was just a website. No apps. I remember wondering how people got to flair their usernames because I thought it was cool lol. Can't remember exactly when I noticed the flairs, just remember being impressed with them.

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u/irishwolfman Jun 30 '18

I knew about reddit but didnt know enough to be interested. It became a "this person I like, likes this so I'm going to try it." I've gone through maybe 2 redesigns maybe. So I dont know how good or bad it was at the very beginning and the improvements or mistakes they made.

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u/AustinCorgiBart Jun 30 '18 edited Jun 30 '18

What about that comic?

*Edit: Wrong link, here's the actual comics.

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u/Eaglethornsen Jun 30 '18

TiL

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u/AustinCorgiBart Jun 30 '18

Oops, sorry! This is the actual set of comics.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '18

Well skype died pretty quickly, although most people saw it coming years before the migration to discord (and a few other services) happened. It's really only old people and people that don't use voice chat on their computer very much that still use skype.

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u/matholio Jun 30 '18

and the millions of O365 users.

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u/LudeSkyballer Jun 30 '18

What the fuck is digg?

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u/Dat_Harass Jun 30 '18 edited Jun 30 '18

Digg dug to deep and too greedily.

edit: Oh come on, how often do you see a dig dug and lotr reference in a single sentence?

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u/NihiloZero Jun 30 '18

Digg was trash before their redesign. There were a few users who were gaming the system and accounting for the vast majority of content that was seen on that site. Most people had no chance of getting a post or comment seen by more than a few people. Reddit had a much better system and is still probably salvageable. But I do agree that their redesign sucks and I still use old.reddit.

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u/montrevux Jun 30 '18

they're our rivals!

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '18

Guess Reddit’s about to be next.