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by scalableUnicon 2239 days ago
I rarely use Facebook, but when I do I use https://m.facebook.com instead of the main site. Similarly i.reddit.com and the HTML version of Gmail. Which aren't great looking, but pretty usable. I hope these versions will be maintained for a long time.
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Drip33 2239 days ago
>Similarly i.reddit.com

Try https://old.reddit.com

It's so bad that people made Browser Extensions for Firefox[0] and Chrome[1]

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

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benbristow 2239 days ago
Old Reddit is so damn ugly though apart from the Subreddits which have nice custom themes (although does make for a 00's Myspace-like inconsistent interface)

The new Reddit definitely seems a lot faster nowadays than it did when it first launched.

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ccmcarey 2239 days ago
I don't think old reddit is ugly, though it takes some getting used to. Combined with RES for some minor enhancements (navigation etc) and it's great.

It's similar to HN. Not fantastic design, but incredible information density and usability.

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thelean12 2239 days ago
Incredible? HN has horrific usability.

Good luck knowing when people respond to your comments. Searching takes you to a completely different website. You can't delete comments (which should be a basic privacy ask from this crowd). Click targets are incredibly small.

It took years of begging for them to even implement collapsing comments. And for some reason they put it on the right side (not lined up with the tree level), and made it a super small click target.

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benbristow 2238 days ago
HN could definitely do with a redesign. Just seems like stubbornness from the owners not to change it.

I'm not talking turning it into an SPA or adding tons of JavaScript, just a bit of CSS/HTML TLC with some nicer fonts and make the whole thing a bit more scalable and bigger with some UX tweaks.

Something akin to http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/

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Supermancho 2239 days ago
Not to go off on a rant about reddit here, but I still use the old reddit (old.reddit.com). The new reddit layout is horrid,. Using additional whitespace to improve readability, has done the opposite. Counter-productive iconography sizing and font styling, it goes on and on. Some of this is to make it more mobile-friendly. I get it, but as a singular design, it's worse for desktop users.
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SketchySeaBeast 2239 days ago
> The new Reddit definitely seems a lot faster nowadays than it did when it first launched.

For me it's not the speed, it's the number of times the page straight up just doesn't refresh, or comes back with no data. Very frustrating.

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aerovistae 2239 days ago
Gmail is a disgrace. I've been using it for so long and I miss the version from 2005. It's so slow today I just hate using it. It's really sad because it was a great product and that's why it took over email.
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