[tiborsaas]

I don't think that the new UI is intentionally bad. I can't imagine the team that pulls it off. It must be hell to work there or it's a team of sociopaths. Imagine plannings with power points on how to mess with users.

I agree that the new UI is worse, I'm just baffled by the reasons why it's the case. Probably bad management / structure.

[dageshi]

I can say as someone who runs a small niche subreddit, users have been finding my sub at a much increased rate in the past 6 months, I suspect because of the "related subs" boxes that auto insert themselves in the new design.

If their aim was to improve the discoverability of smaller subs, they've achieved it.

[tiborsaas]

It's not all bad of course, it's a complex product so you can simultaneously delivery useful features while making the design / usability worse.