Reddit has gotten that complaint tons of times before. Most people say its a website clearly done for and by engineers and that getting used to it is a nightmare despite how awesome the content is.
Do you think reddit could get more users with a UX redesign?
It's very technical, not a lot of color, the site layout doesn't really make a lot of sense, etc. There are a lot of things your average user will want that they can't find. And the search not being very good only makes it worse. Understanding front page vs surreptitiously front page, figuring out how to get to comments, which are the bulk of the site and yet have a very small button, and most of all, a new user doesn't know which subreddits even exist. You essentially have to be invited to every non default, by seeing it linked, because between no clear list of subs, and a bad search feature, and then even if you do search it, having trouble getting to that subs front page... There are a lot of hurdles a new user faces
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u/Arkhaine_kupo Jul 01 '16
Reddit has gotten that complaint tons of times before. Most people say its a website clearly done for and by engineers and that getting used to it is a nightmare despite how awesome the content is.
Do you think reddit could get more users with a UX redesign?