[Qz]

As an HN user I realize my opinion is biased, but when I look at reddit I don't think minimalist. In fact it seems somewhat cluttered.

[Groxx]

It's minimalist if you consider "minimalism" to mean minimal decoration. Instead of, you know, minimalism.

[kn0thing]

I kept telling Steve we needed more padding between those links ;) check out how it used to look... http://reddit.blogspot.com/2006/12/time-machine.html

[die_sekte]

Is there some generally agreed upon definition for that?

[efsavage]

Yes.

[keiferski]

Semi-agreed. Reddit is minimal in that it is pretty simple and straightforward to use. Not minimal in the designed-to-be minimalist sense.

The best example of this is Google and Apple. Both are minimalist. But Apple (arguably, of course) has a much better sense of design. Reddit is like Google.

[Qz]

I'm not in the Apple boat, but I do know what you mean about the Google-iness of Reddit, and more generally the Google-iness of Google. Aside from google.com itself, there's something about everything they design that is very off-putting in a way that's hard to describe.

[die_sekte]

Lack of whitespace? Google Mail, YouTube, even their help pages are crammed full of content.

[equivalence]

To my eye anyway it always looks like Google got the developers to do the design as well (even though that's probably not the case), whereas Apples' designs have a little bit more of an "artistic" feel to them

[idonthack]

turn on compressed link display in your preferences. it's what reddit originally looked like, and it's much more minimal than the current design