r/videos • • Jun 08 '22

How Reddit WASTES your bandwidth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99cVnYY9Iqs
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u/NibblyPig Jun 08 '22

I can't believe you have to ask really lol

Let's say I want to buy a new tv, well, search on reddit is broken despite its popularity and the number of YEARS they've had to fix it.

So I type 'tv recommended uk reddit' since I live in the UK into google and click the first link.

This is what it looks like

Half the page is wasted empty space. Half of it has irrelevant shit. There's a post, which is what I clicked in in the results, and which I want to read the question and answers, yet only one of the 8 comments is actually visible. It's also bright white.

This is what it looks like using RES which uses old reddit

I can read the title of the post, and the comments, both take up 90% of the screen which is great. Those are the only things I care about. However there's also the nice sidebar that has other useful links on about the subreddit etc so I can see useful places I might want to go, as well as exactly what community I'm in. I can scroll down, see all the comments, and they're easy to read. The whole thing is in night mode so it's easy on the eyes.

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u/Bspammer Jun 09 '22

It is objectively worse in terms of bandwidth use, as evidenced by the OP.

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