[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