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by ccmcarey 2240 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 2240 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 2240 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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