[swearwolves]

> But is it one that a new interface could fix? I believe that it's possible, but it's not obvious to me how it would be improved.

A new interface could fix a lot of the issues, but I think the jury is still out on whether or not the current redesign is fixing those issues.

In my opinion, the higher level concepts of subreddits and subreddit discoverability are one of the main hurdles that brand new users have to understand and overcome. Most people that don't know anything about Reddit just assume it's a massive forum of people posting random shit - and don't bother going much further than that.

I think the new sidebar and the overhauled search are a great start at making the browsing experience much more intuitive - but the new profiles and messenger are all questionable design decisions that feel a lot less "Reddit" and a lot more "Facebook".