[benbristow]

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.

[ccmcarey]

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.

[thelean12]

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.

[benbristow]

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/

[Supermancho]

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.

[SketchySeaBeast]

> 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.