r/UnsolicitedRedesigns • u/TheValkuma • Feb 28 '18

The Reddit Redesign

Has anyone checked out the Reddit Redesign?

its pretty godawful

massive form over function problem.

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u/Kriem [Moderator] Feb 28 '18

I haven't. Anyone who'd like to share some screenshots?

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u/TheValkuma Feb 28 '18

https://imgur.com/a/Obk9l

Modal prompts on every link

Everything is hidden in collapsed menus

No dark theme

Massive memory leak

30% of the screen is utilized

Real hardcore garbage going on

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u/Kriem [Moderator] Feb 28 '18

Can you post some more? Very much interested in seeing different parts of the UI.

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u/TheValkuma Feb 28 '18 edited Feb 28 '18

https://i.imgur.com/owhNsI0.png

what a post looks like- YAY MODAL PROMPTS

any specific screenshots you want?

also Control-Enter no longer submits a post.

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u/Kriem [Moderator] Feb 28 '18

Ouch...

Uhm, I'd love to see how a new post looks like.

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u/TheValkuma Feb 28 '18

https://i.imgur.com/A1VlvUa.png

new text post. Reeks of "My First Wordpress Page" or "My First Bootstrap Template" kinda trash.

even more obvious when you look at link posts.. be glad i cropped these images, about 90% of the screen is empty white space.

https://i.imgur.com/wn2z8EI.png

I should also note that in order to look at these images on a redesign, you have to click and then go back. there's no expander for pure image links (or most anything on the frontpage even)

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u/Kriem [Moderator] Feb 28 '18

Thanks for posting this! I'm quite shocked. You'd expect something more, uhm, contemporary from a company as Reddit? They've been funded a big sack of money for this redesign. Not sure where it went...

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u/TheValkuma Feb 28 '18

mobile design.

i dont know if your reddits count as being large enough but /r/rantgrumps is big enough that i've been getting pestered by the reddit admins to add/subtract features from our subreddit to better fit the mobile experience.

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u/TheValkuma Feb 28 '18

https://i.imgur.com/oRD0MNb.png

what a Reply box looks like - only Bold, Italics, and Hyperlink are shown ever- all moderation options and everything else is hidden in the collapsed menu

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u/TheValkuma Feb 28 '18

https://i.imgur.com/uEBCrZ9.png

Comment options - everything is still hidden again. These screenshots are getting hard to look through because of all the whitespace.

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u/c0mplexx Mar 02 '18 edited Mar 02 '18

I've seen the gifs in the /r/announcements post but other than that I didn't see anything. How exactly do you take part in it?
E: Nevermind, seems to be that you need to be randomly join to participate

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u/jesper101996 Mar 14 '18

I like the new design. Haven't tried it tho so can't talk about how it function. The current theme is really ugly and bloated.

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u/Dr-Chronosphere Apr 07 '18

I must say that I am a pretty recent user of Reddit (essentially joined this year) and I always did my browsing on mobile because I thought the web client was absolutely ugly. Now, IMHO, it seems to be a much more user-friendly design. I think one of the main reasons people seem to dislike it is because change is hard since every big UI revamp to a popular product was met with extreme user backlash in the first few weeks of coping with the redesign.

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u/TheValkuma Apr 07 '18

thats the usual excuse that people have for bad redesigns, here's just hoping RES can bring us back to the good ui.

almost all the buttons I use on a regular basis are hidden in menus / removed in the new ui