You can still access the old new reddit by going to new.reddit.com, ironically enough, or old reddit through old.reddit.com
It just looks like a new version of Facebook
I think that was the goal.
I hate how Reddit conditioned my brain to see score before the actual content and make up my mind about it before even reading it.
I don’t say scores aren’t important to have some kind of loose groupthink quality control but it all has as many cons as it has pros and there isn’t really a perfect solution just least bad.
Also it is the main thing making social media so addicting when you receive points and I want internet to serve me and not I serve the internet.
If a phone/site/program makes everything possible to be as addictive then it actually makes you a slave to it imo instead of it being a useful tool enriching your experience and serving you to maybe get more useful information or show new ideas.
That’s why these new designs get more pretty to look at but less useful because they are made to hijack your time from yourself for ad watching. So in a way ad based companies literally do everything to steal the most valuable resource from you - your time and by extension - your life.
Agree.
Do people not know about lemmy or are just unwilling to switch? I genuinely don’t understand people’s loyalty to tech companies
None of the niche communities I am interested in exist on lemmy. Maybe they will eventually, maybe they won’t. It’s more or less useless beyond doom scrolling. I miss reddit because I miss having all of my useful forums in one place with a better thread format, and I didn’t need to remember a bunch of accounts to participate in something like /r/tipofmytongue or /r/bikewrench periodically. Lemmy is just a political news space with memes and that’s not going to attract everyone.
It’s literally the same format as reddit. Just make those communities
Oh, I should clarify. They exist, but nobody uses them. So they’re useless, like asking a ‘genuine’ question and then disagreeing with answers you don’t like.
You may have legitimately misunderstood that I meant better format than normal forums. I’m using lemmy, I know it’s the same layout as reddit
I was very confused for a moment as this is how my Lemmy looks - I’m using the Photon interface (e.g. https://photon.lemmy.world/) Pretty much identical.
Thankfully, unlike reddit, you can always change this appearance with options or with another Lemmy app.
not a fan of the layout, but photon is still way lighter than reddit
Ya I noticed that shreddit uses a similar layout to photon
Very unpopular opinion:
Old ui sucks. You can’t see shit on phone nor on desktop. It’s just wall of text.
Old reddit absolutely had its issues. The new and newnew design is just decisively worse however.
I don’t like how it looks either. Way too busy. Only thing is, it is lightweight though. New reddit usually crawls to a halt after half an hour of scrolling (which is probably good for my mental health).
For the mobile UI:
Old reddit: Yes
Around Reddit API debacle: Alright UI
Newest Reddit UI: Annoying
