[bionoid]

> I'm actually amazed that they still bother to maintain this legacy versions.

According to my traffic stats (moderating ~400k subscribers), old + mobile web frontends make up about twice the traffic of new frontend. Apps are by far the most popular, about ~3x of all web frontends combined.

I do not know a single person that moderates a 100k+ subreddit using the redesign, everyone still seems to be using old + modtools + enhancement suite. Personally, I believe this is the only reason they didn't kill it already.

Edit to add: The new frontend is the default for logged-out users, and it still makes up half of old. If that isn't a failed redesign project, I don't know what is.

[rurp]

Wow, those numbers are astonishing. I think "defaults matter" has been one of the biggest themes in modern tech. Countless inferior products have won out simply by being the most discoverable and least friction option. That the new design is still failing despite that massive advantage is damning.